MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE
(Also please Disney don’t fuck up the sequel)
Sequel? Modern Disney? Oh fuck…
I adored superstore. I love how I think back of the show and nothing comes to mind because everything was painfully ordinary.
Yeah. That was a surprising gem to stumble upon
Skills issue.
Such content already exists.
There’s a Streisand Effect that occurs when writing about what you don’t want instead of lifting up what you do want.
The cool irony of this thread complaining about it is that it’s promoting tons of great shows many of us would have not known.
Shameless: “am I a fucking joke to you?”
Since the wealthy fund the shit, anything to do with the commoner is portrayed as trashy, just above literal refuse with regard to usefulness, while the wealthy are portrayed as the righteous and just, with money to fix all the problems they face and any moral failings related to them is the result of something outside their wealth.
Judge Judy, Hoarders, and Cops
I dunno if you’re being sarcastic here but wow, what a low opinion of normal people!
I cast no judgment but these shows are where you can find regular people and not professional actors.
Yes, it’s just that you’re often seeing a regular person on one of the worst days of their life, not a normal day. It gives a rather unkind impression to the viewer!
I get it, but look at it this way, most of those shows do not show the rich and powerful in a flattering light E.g. Succession. So you could interpret it as Hollywood trying to shatter the glitz and glamor persona that the rich have always enjoyed.
Why do you need a show about normal people?
You’re surrounded by normal people
Married with Children was super fun and about normal people.
We want to see a show about normal people that just happen to be more interesting than the normal person you are.
Money doesn’t make people more interesting, it usually makes them far less interesting.
The life stories of the people around you are likely more interesting than anything a Hollywood screenwriter can come up with
Yeah. Enough of celebrities going on and on about their introspections, how this experience will grow their personality. Show the guy that spend years building a model train track in his garage.
I read some article the other day, how they had noticed a heavy attempt, by Hollywood, to glamorise and humanise ultra rich, like Yellowstone. Is that so we just sit back and shut up and let the billionaires be. Fk that.
Same way that tv shows glorify cops who break the rules and disregard suspects rights. It’s so that we cheer for cops who break the rules and excuse them for “doing what you need to do to catch the bad guy”.
They did it for cops so why not billionaires next!
Reality TV
I haven’t seen it but I’ve heard good things about Adolescence?
I was gonna say that British TV has more realistic or normal people. However I haven’t seen much of that recently. It’s mainly Taskmaster and Black Mirror.
New Taskmaster series just dropped with Jason Mantzoukas for us plebs.
Speaking of, Plebs was a great comedy series
Game changer new season first 2 episodes just droped and its 1000% better than task master. Thats how a game show for us normal people looks like.
“How long can you keep a cat on your lap?” 0.02s
Ooh that’s another good show! They’re both good in their own rights.
Maximum Derek!
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And medical dramas ignoring the INSANE cost of medicine in the US
I remember one line in the good doctor that went something along the lines of
“We treat the super wealthy with whatever they want so we can treat the poor with what they need”
I don’t live in the US and even I knew that line was complete BS
Normal people are boring. I want to watch TV shows about wizards.
But not the kkk wizards. And if so, be Rick and Morty chopping them into little pieces like the trash they are.
I’d be down to watch a dark comedy about kkk wizards.
The biggest reason I dropped Succession during first season. I have no interest in watching some rich fucks and on top of that there is not one likable character in that show.
You missed the point of the show, they are all unlikable for a reason, and contrary to what you might think, none of them come out on top the way they wanted to. It’s a great show that highlights their petty, callous, empty little lives
I know they are unlikable for a reason. I just don’t feel a need to watch a show about petty, callous empty little lives of rich idiots.
Fair enough
