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All shows suck now, but the returning ones can coast off of how good they used to be.
bump
>streaming services will replace physical media!
>wtf why are people using streaming services to watch old shows?
derp
I want to watch a sci-fi show made before 2016 with a lot of episodes that I can watch for free online on one of those above board streaming sites not some BS virus obstacle course. What are some suggestions?
Battlestar Galactica
Sliders
absolute kino
Fringe
Farscape
Lexx.
YO WAY-YO
Lindy's rule. Thank you lindy
Post the writers guild chart
Everything has a bunch of homosexual and trannie characters now and unnecessary sex scenes. American shit is the worst for that.
there's far less sex scenes now on the tv and movies than it was 15 or 20 years ago
for sex scenes there need to be sexes
And there is no future generation without sex. You don't condition the normies to breed with ugly, sexless audio-visual.
All new shows have to be "diverse" like some "melting pot" and it's just exhausting. You don't need a gay or black person in every show.
>noooooo i can't believe people who aren't like me exist
You sound like my half demented grandpa complaining about how the news anchors are "colored".
this bait WILL work, just watch!
It's not bait, I'm just correctly pointing out how weak and insular you are.
A show made for everyone is a show made for no one. Back in the day you could have Family Matters for the blacks and Home Improvement for the whites and they could both exist and do well separately, but now they jam every demographic and minority into every show and everything becomes generic sludge. No wonder no one watches. Zoomers and mutts just play video games and watch sports, and all the new shit is uninteresting for millennials/Gen X/Boomers.
>Back in the day you could have Family Matters for the blacks and Home Improvement for the whites and they could both exist and do well separately
Both of those shows are dogshit for morons and always have been.
>but now they jam every demographic and minority into every show
Yeah, it's almost like America has a wide variety of demographics lol
>and everything becomes generic sludge
This is more related to things like writing and direction than it is related to the shade of skin the actors have. Not sure how you didn't know that.
> all the new shit is uninteresting for millennials/Gen X/Boomers.
This happens as you grow older, and it's the case for every generation. My silent gen grandmother thinks the 70s dad rock my boomer father listens to is the spawn of Satan. The internal logic involved boils down to "I had more fun when I was 12 than I do as an adult and that makes me mad". There's no actual critical thought process happening, it's entirely an emotional response to a break in habituation.
Discounts the ability to discover old stuff one enjoys. High school pseudopsych disregarded.
>Discounts the ability to discover old stuff one enjoys.
No, this is common too. The old stuff you discover when you're young will also be part of your long term habits. It is extremely unlikely you consume more than a tiny handful of media from before the 20th century, though, despite there being mountains of it. It will virtually all be contemporary, and only in reverse, never forward.
>The old stuff you discover when you're young
But I was in my late 20s when I started watching those shows.
>It is extremely unlikely you consume more than a tiny handful of media from before the 20th century,
How much media exists from before 1901?
>How much media exists from before 1901?
Is this the power of American education?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon
What does that have to do with television and film?
If you wanted to know about television and film from before 1901, why didn't you specify that instead of asking broadly about media?
Well since we’re on the television and film board and not the books for homosexuals board it’s assumed.
You have no idea how we got here
islam doesn't exist without christianity. Islam started as a syncretic israeli/christian heresy in the lower reaches of the byzantine empire (there were a billion of these wandering around, islam just got popular)
>This happens as you grow older, and it's the case for every generation
Bullshit, Gen Z and Millennials jump on shows like Columbo once they hit streaming services, because they were good shows that aren't made anymore. There's the complaining of old people that things aren't like when they were younger, and there's the valid complaint that corporate consolidation has led to less competition and lower quality products at every level of society. There is a big difference between the two.
>Gen Z and Millennials jump on shows like Columbo once they hit streaming services
I've seen zero evidence that Colubmbo is watched by gen Z and millennials in any meaningful quantity. Again, the "old" shows being consumed are brainless sitcoms like Friends and The Office, both of which are relatively modern.
>garbled schizoid nonsense
Good talk, anon.
>no u
your modern shows are just shitty political bait and literal propaganda, is no wonder zoomers are only watching tik tok videos
Family Matters is objectively a fun show
>Yeah, it's almost like America has a wide variety of demographics
Ah yes, that explains the 21st-century multiculturalism in a history drama set in 15th-century Britain
>that explains the 21st-century multiculturalism in a history drama set in 15th-century Britain
No idea what series or film you're referring to.
Also, I find it funny that the shows in question are things like Friends, and The Office. I can think of multiple films and tv series from the past year or two that are more enormously thoughtful and engaging than any of the 90s/00s slop vapid normans watch on repeat.
>I can think of multiple films and tv series from the past year or two that are more enormously thoughtful and engaging than any of the 90s/00s slop vapid normans watch on repeat.
No you can't, or else you'd have listed them. Liar.
it was a lazy post farming (you)s, anon didn’t even do the bare minimum to disguise it.
All I can think of recently is The Terror and Chernobyl. Two television shows in recent years with any good in them; otherwise at best you get something unintentionally comedic like anything from the CW or Robyn Hood.
>No you can't, or else you'd have listed them.
Killers of the Flower moon, The Bear, Severance, The Holdovers, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Succession, Fargo, off the top of my head. And those are all English speaking titles, ignoring the sheer amount of content created across the globe.
It wasn't even necessarily Family Matters for the blacks. It was a black show that anyone could watch. Because it was a black show about black people, it felt different than Home Improvement, so you could actually watch both and they both they felt unique.
Now every fricking show as the exact same mystery meat cast with gay comedic sidekick. Its the same show over and over.
>Back in the day you could have Family Matters for the blacks and Home Improvement for the whites and they could both exist and do well separately
In the last decade they have made basically every variation of this you can think of. You have Fresh off the Boat for chinks, The Golbergs for the israelites, Blackish for the nigs, The Middle for average midwesterners, etc. You even have one specifically for mixed people called Mixedish etc. Its not like what you describe doesnt exist, if anything its even more fractured and specific today
And somehow the Cosby Show was popular with EVERYONE.
There was more of a monomedia structure, in the sense that you had much less airing so everyone consumed the same thing. You cant really compare to today where you have hundreds of forms of media that didnt exist back then and so on.
Things were popular with everyone because anyone that that wanted to watch tv would just watch what was on.
The '80s and '90s were the Golden Age of Sitcoms. Cosby had plenty of competition, it was just very good.
And Fresh Prince. Everyone loved that. And Seinfeld. Quite a few shows could appeal widely and still be well made.
>And Fresh Prince. Everyone loved that.
Kids and teenagers loved it, you mean. Your racist grandpa called it the Black person show for thugs and rappers and thought it was bringing the dowmfall of the west.
Again, it boils down to:
>I had more fun when I was 12 than I do as an adult, and that makes me mad.
you are such a disingenuous homosexual
No, what I wrote is accurate. I accept your concession.
my racist grandpa loved the cosby show.
Cosby grew up in the pre-Civil Rights era, so your racist grandpa saw him as one of the good, proper blacks that knew his place in society ("below" whites).
I guarantee, though, that his grandpa would've seen the Cosby show as an abomination.
And there's no chance your racist grandpa would've seen Fresh Prince as anything other than glorifying Black person rap culture.
you seem pretty ageist and bigoted. maybe your experience with the elderly has colored your opinion in a negative way.
>you seem pretty ageist
It's not ageism to acknowledge well understood cultural biases. No one is immune to it. I tend to prefer things from when I was young too.
It's not racism to acknowledge well understood cultural biases. No one is immune to it.
No, you just have a lot of internalized bigotry. Both sets of my grandparents like the Fresh Prince. Maybe stop being so close minded and let go of your racism against white people
>Both sets of my grandparents like the Fresh Prince.
What would he think of Cosby now?
Because back then the idea of funny show was to be funny, today you have stuff like "Diversity hires" and "mandatory minorities characters" which makes it impossible to make a proper good show.
A movie like LOTR for example, COULD never be done today
>A movie like LOTR for example, COULD never be done today
Let's be real, it was a miracle it even happened in 2001. We're using outliers to describe an era that was filled with unwatchable garbage (like every era).
>Capeshit, for example, COULD never be done today
>Back in the day you could have Family Matters for the blacks and Home Improvement for the whites and they could both exist and do well separately
I enjoyed both and I'm latinx.
kek, people like this still exist? It's been like 65 years
is not about "believing" mentally ill freaks and weirdos like you exist, is just that normal people do not want to see you your kind in a movie
it clearly is a symptom of the greater problem though. instead of actually trying to make a decent show, they cynically try to stuff as many different demographics into something to fit whatever metrics they have.
you won't believe how much I am glad not to live in a ""culturally diverse"" hellscape of us
Imagine if there was a random Nazi in every show made over the past ten years who added nothing to the story at all, and was objectively on there to make things more 'diverse'. That would feel pretty janky and out of place, huh?
Nazis aren't a race or sexual orientation. They don't simply "exist", they choose to be.
The overwhelming majority of LGBT choose to be so for political reasons.
>The overwhelming majority of LGBT choose to be so for political reasons.
This doesn't become true just because Matt Walsh told you so.
Straw-manning is just sad.
Take the L you unmitigated homosexual.
You don't choose your race
You do choose if you sleep with women or men. Unless you're in prison being raped
>You do choose if you sleep with women or men.
Being gay isn't defined by who you sleep with. It's defined by who you're sexually and romantically attracted to.
Let me put it in terms you can relate to: You are straight, even though you've never had sex and will die a virgin.
Your made up boogeyman.
>what is grooming
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! EVERY SHOW NEEDS 15 QUEER TRANS MUSLIM DISABLED LESBIANS OF COLOR OR I'M GOMMA SHIT MY DIAPER AND EAT IT!!!!!
You sound like the homosexuals I used to shove in lockers in high school
Who are you quoting?
Democrats
Your image doesn't show that quote either. I think you're hallucinating things no one said, anon.
I can believe it but I don’t want to be forced to look at their inferior aesthetic unless I absolutely have to.
Have you considered simply not being a weak b***h?
Have you considered not being brown and ugly?
But that makes good stories? How are all these old shows that aren't diverse so popular?
>check out this new show with 6 episodes that will be cancelled after 6 years and 2 seasons and an interracial cast set in medieval ireland
nah my man, I don't think I will
🙂
Forgot the obligatory troony nun that everyone at the abbey is fine with.
Will they leave out the Tinker episode every Irish show seems to have?
>Sophisticated Moorish character who has traveled the world
>Tries to and fails to explain soap and personal hygiene to the white people
All as Yakub intended.
Moorish character who has traveled the world
>Tries to and fails to explain soap and personal hygiene to the white people
>Nobody takes him seriously because he smells like shit.
>it immediately becomes obvious to everyone that he never bathes.
And what's with splitting seasons to multiple parts? What's the point? By the time the next part comes out I have already forgotten what happened in the first episodes.
Boy do I have just the show for you
They're bad
Lauren graham would be perfect is she had big breasts and was a few inches shorter.
because they are very boring, even for NPCs.
even the propaganda used to be subtle and interesting
now it's in your face and predictable
Unironically, America continually rewatching The Gilmore Girls is the collective subconscious wish we could go back to pre-2000's. Everyone white, everyone generally happy with low-existential dread, highest technology point right before cell phones, everyone pretty and generally nice, everyone living in an affordable medium town setting, in generally sized houses and politics being a back-burner issue that didnt effect your life in many ways.
Now, middle-city living such as this is so out of reach of normal Americans its ridiculous. These houses are $1 million plus. Everywhere you turn there's Latinos, Africans, ugly brown people. homeless people take up residence in every public park and the city leadership is gripped by leftist extortionists so they refuse to resolve or acknowledge them. Schools are frozen in migrant and black terror as the school system refuses to discipline or remove them as that would be racist. Everyone made a livable wage doing something not super important. Now every job is inundated with 300 applicants from illegal immigrants. Cant buy a car since all new cars are astonishingly expensive due to EPA and NHTSA regulations, so old cars have jumped up way in price.
Every thing sucks now. Everything is brown, smarmy, ugly, smelly, and un-housed.
The world that the Gilmore Girls existed in is long gone, and with it, the American soul.
Intrinsically, Americans know that all that lies ahead of us is fire and brimstone.
We all just want to go back.
Why don't we embrace the Progress?
Remember the glorious old days when people who did shit like this got a free gov. issue rope?
>LGBTQIA2s+
What the frick?
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trannies, Queers, Intersexes, Asexuals, Two Spirits, and more. I wonder what new form of mental illness will get added to the end.
It's missing "MLP" and "KMS" and "any%"
>Two Spirits
Schizos are part of the homosexual rainbow now?
that's trans (native american edition). It gets you more privilege points than normal trans, that's why Canada sticks it in front.
>Two Spirits
What if you have three spirits?
Incest or polyamory. Probably the latter then the former.
Progress
I thought june is the gay month
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Child Catcher vibes
Youuuuuuu are correct. Lord have mercy
>everything is shitty and ugly
Sounds like something out of the talmud or something
idk maybe they should put more Black folk in the new shows
Because they are made by millennials.
No trannies and minimal sissy fem gays usually the best friend.
No radical feminist
The good old days
>Why aren’t people watching new shows?
>Hey man let's make a show about that Halo Videogame thing, I bet the fans will like it
>*6 months later
>"Halo: The Tv Series by Amazon Prime; TOP 10 GAY SEX SCENES! NUMBER 5 WILL SHOCK YOU!"
Got a good chuckle.
Been rewatching X Files and it's unreal how much better it was than modern shit
watch the lone gunmen next.
Same, I'm on season 6. I might rewatch "Penny Dreadful" next.
Any suggestions for high quality or timeless kinos to watch?
It's almost like people don't actually want to be preached at by ugly people of color and gays, even though they pretend to love it for likes on social media.
Ah yes, Friends and The Office, the most popular shows on Netflix, notoriously absent of blacks and gays.
Are they doing a lot of preaching?
Gunther was gay?
The people who preach about loving it do love it, but not to watch. It's the Gramsci "make everything political" approach where all aspects of society must be subverted to the revolution. They don't want the woke garbage to watch, they just want to constantly propagandize.
>It's the Gramsci "make everything political" approach where all aspects of society must be subverted to the revolution
Reminded me of the whole kneeling in the NFL
>WTF La'bemba Jackson and Don'ta Sneedo! you are paid millions of dollars to catch a ball not to kneel!! frick off! ain't watching this shit no more
Ironic you invoke Gramsci considering a huge part of the body of his work was describing how corporate capitalism mass produces cheap culture to drown out dissent and subvert traditional social units and norms to make the working masses easier to rule through divide and conquer.
Also the “everything is political” thing isn’t saying everything SHOULD be political, but rather that everything inherently IS political regardless because it’s literally impossible to convey information or tell a story without imparting one’s own bias into it. Something that appears apolitical only appears that way because it is the norm you’ve grown accustomed to and thusly don’t notice the subliminal nature of.
Gramsci was among many Italian philosophers prominent in post fascist Italy on the left and right who detested the corporate culture that America was pushing specifically to make them more firmly their subject during the cold war. This was the more subtle part of the infamous Operation GLADIO that was used to crush communist movements in Italy at the time.
>breathing is a political act
>if your movie shows characters breathing then it's [insert arbitrary critical theory rubbish here, like this means it's pro-global warming because people burn coal or whatever]
you have been trained wrong on purpose, as a joke. you literally ARE the guy whose ability to think has been subverted to make you easier to rule.
>Gramsci was among many Italian philosophers prominent in post fascist Italy
Gramsci died in 1937, stop lying you commiegay.
NTA butt heir is a difference between ones works getting popular and being alive to see it.
Because I'm feeling lonely and so coooold
It's because new shows are made primarily to check boxes and not to be entertaining.
So glad I missed when this came out. They purposely ruin good shit. For what? They were bullied when younger, back in the 90's, so now their goal is to destroy everything their bullies liked that came from that time period.
>They purposely ruin good shit. For what?
hollywood is ran by post-walled rosties and nu-males
I’ve been saying this for years. When everything is immediately available to watch, it’s hard to compete with time-tested critically-acclaimed classics.
>House M.D.
>Friends
>The Office
>My Wife and Kids
>Young Sheldon
>time-tested critically-acclaimed classics.
Now post your new modern "all time-tested" hits zoomer
Yes? The Office and Friends were the reasons why Netflix conquered the streaming wars.
You're not wrong, but they're also total meme shows designed for stupid people. The idea that they're examples of TV being better in the past is laughable. There's plenty of """"woke"""" shit in The Office in particular that you morons would seethe at if it came out today.
Hopefully The rise of the AI will put and end to this
Because new shows are all DEI-infected crap, and a huge chunk of them are just remakes.
I haven't had Netflix in 10 years and resubscribed about a month ago. Every modern show has
>black male white female couple
>hyper capable black people
>idiot white male main character
>nu-speak - pronouns, microaggressions, etc
I honestly thought you were all exaggerating. If anything you were playing it down. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be watching Frasier for the 3rd time in 5 years.
Same reason they're listening to more old music. There's just more of it and it's better.
There's a 3 to 4 year wait between seasons nowadays. It's just not worth getting into a new show.
No one wants the new world order
whyyyy won't you love trannies and Black folk why why whyyyyy
If they went on estrogen and painted their hair purple you'd call them brave.
delicious chuddy tears
No, I won't watch your goyslop
Because people keep memeing older shows driving interest for it
>can count on one hand the number of shows that worth watching in the past five years
gee I wonder
>legitimate Cinemaphile question
>110 posts later
>Trannies
>legitimate Cinemaphile question
>legitimate..
only a complete idiot would think that the currents mainstream shows are better than anything made 20 years ago, this is just another poorly veiled /misc/ thread
They are too good. People cannot stand the quality: it's overwhelming.
according to people on the internet, new movies sounding terrible is my fault for having bad hardware.
So i stick with the things i can watch on my 'shitty' setup without music drowning out dialogue, or explosions in one scene 10x as loud as someone shouting in the last.
This is all entirely NOT a competence issue in hollywood and is 100% my poorgay ass that should be blamed. Or so I'm told.
maybe people making nu-entertainment should buy me all the audio equipment I need to consume their shit. DK64 came with the expansion pak. Hey You Pikachu came with a microphone.
Why were hardware requirements in the 90's more accomodating than they are now?
1. Modern shows suck. The writing of modern shows is worse than even the 50s.
2. There is more episodes in many old shows. Many old shows would get so many seasons worth and thus perfect to binge. Meanwhile modern shows are lucky to get two seasons and not end on a cliffhanger.
Define "old" first. Are we talking decades old, or shows that ended a few years ago? I would assume that for streaming services, most people want to watch older shows in order to binge through them. It's much easier to watch through the entirety of a an older series than wait for the new season of whatever new comes out.
>Are we talking decades old, or shows that ended a few years ago?
They're talking about shit like House M.D. and The Office lmao.
I looked at the list of the top 10 from the article just to see. They're pulling from Nielson ratings, and most of the shows are either still airing or finished a few years ago.
Forced diversity, writer self inserts, "the message" over plot
Why would anyone watch new shows? They all get cancelled after 1 seasons unless they're a worldwide phenomenon. And even if they are, you get maybe 6 new episodes every 2 or 3 years.
Shows used to last several seasons and you would get 22 episodes every year.
>They all get cancelled after 1 seasons unless they're a worldwide phenomenon.
And on top of that, the 1 season you get always feels incomplete and unsatisfying because it's leaving things open for a second season that never comes.
It's so bad that cartoons don't even get 13+ episodes per season anymore lol. It's either 10 or a much lower number count. We've reached the point of seasonal anime having more longevity now.
>It's so bad that cartoons don't even get 13+ episodes per season anymore lol
This isn't true at all, btw. Kids cartoons regularly get 26+ episodes in a season, like Teen Titans Go! and Paw Patrol.
>Shows used to last several seasons and you would get 22 episodes every year.
The problem with large season orders is that at least half of those episodes will be mediocre or have recycled conflicts. If you binge watch a sitcom you can see about 8 stock plots that get reskinned 3 times per season. But 8 episode seasons have hollow characters who only do what the plot needs them to. 12 episodes is the sweet spot for me. Enough time for character work without having to retread familiar story ground.
WTF happened to Rory Gilmore?
I'm not white but enjoy watching media with happy white people instead of angry diversity hires.
Simple as.
Link to article itself:
https://archive.is/T7ErU
Also top most streamed shows from 2023 in pic
absolute normie slop
this is the list. You all look like morons now
>10 years old show with 250 episodes has more minutes watched than two 8ep seasons of a new show?
makes me think
that's a good point actually
if people binge watch/rewatch an old show over the year, it gets up to 4 times as many minutes as a new show by default
>https://archive.is/T7ErU
And for comparison's sake, the list of the modern original top streamed shows from 2023.
i saw ted lasso and i've heard about mandalorian. The rest i see for the first time
Ted Lasso was a decent show. But it wasn't funny, which is my main problem with comedies now. I know Virgin River is a Netflix show, but I never watched it. Mandalorian shit the bed in season 3.
All this shit is background noise you leave on while you scroll your phone. Ask a Ginny and Georgia "fan" what they like about it. You'll get a shrug and blank stare. Now ask a Seinfeld fan what they like about it and they won't shut up.
Literally never heard of any of this shit except The Mandalorian because I like Star Wars.
>Cinemaphile is unironically arguing that The Big Bang Theory were the good ol' days before "wokeism" took over the streets
my sides.
Because new shows are a reflection of the current deteriorating state of Western Anglo Society. I prefer to watch old media because it represents the ethos of Western/Anglo culture when it was at its peak. Even your average white liberal would feel a deep, stabbing sense of demoralization watching new media though most of them could never come to grips with why they feel that way.
Yeah that’s exactly what it is. New cinema is a reflection of the new world order in ways that might not be obvious to the average viewer but is nevertheless extremely demoralizing on a subconscious level.
Because they're all written by middle age white women.
middle aged women of any other color just bring even more complexes and baggage so the addition of white was unnecessary
The white ones are extra neurotic because they hate themselves for being white. Self-hatred makes them doubly insane.
the others hate white people for being white and have a few extra notches on their victim complex, allowing them to dodge introspection because they have a convenient scapegoat for all their litany of problems
>Watch old shows
>Characters are relatable and help each other out. Most problems are wrapped up in 22-45 minutes. All around pleasant atmosphere.
>Watch new shows
>Every character is miserable and selfish. Multiple storylines fight with each other for our attention. Token empowered female with gay sidekick. Conflicts are drawn out over 8-10 episodes. Atmosphere is dingy.
People watch TV to get away from their problems.
Not interested in troony propaganda and SJW circle jerking.
Because:
>"WE'VE MADE 13 EPISODES OF THIS SHOW AND IT HAS TO BE AN INSTANT HIT. WATCH IT. WATCH IT NOW OR WE'LL CANCEL IT."
versus
>"This show was on air over a ten year period with 26 episodes per season and was allowed to mature into a form where the writers and actors were firing on all cylinders."
>80s - 2010 golden age of tv
aimed to make the best product because thats how you profit
> modern tv
made to keep IP, check dei boxes, appease share holders because thats how you profit
Because Obama legalized propaganda in 2013 and the vast majority of movies, tv shows, comics, video games, newscasts, etc, etc, etc have been garbage since.
All this streaming propaganda shit will be a 'forgotten' era of entertainment, in other words there wont be too many trying to track it down to watch in the near future. There aren't enough watching it currently to foster any sentiment of nostalgia in the future. People will be glad to move past it. Establishment news media continues to die off as well.
>Make 8 episodes
>Yep, let's call that a season. We'll meet back in a couple years to discuss another. Good work guys.
>Get cancelled after 3 "seasons" because the studio is tired of waiting
>"Why are old shows with 100+ episodes beating us?"
BTW, I always thought Rory was quite attractive, but the mom is on another level IMO.
What I don't get is why they always cast the ugliest, apish looking blacks in everything. There are some legit good looking black people out there but they seem to prefer the ugly ones.
All blacks have ghost ape DNA in their genes, that no other race has.
It is the "colorism" meme. Social marxists decided that attractive black people are "white passing" or "not good enough ethnic representation", so they and the people they indoctrinated in college mostly cast the eggplant looking blacks, as they've decided that is how "real" blacks look like.
>What I don't get is why they always cast the ugliest, apish looking blacks in everything.
Examples of shows today that have "apish" looking blacks that are ""worse"" than blacks from the past? In the 90s we had dudes like Michael Duncan in everything and he's the most gorilla-tier black dude I've ever seen.
Michael Duncan is handsome though.
You brought this on yourself.
I actually think the problem is the exact opposite of what he said. Modern black actors all feel incredibly generic and devoid of any unique qualities.
Michael Duncan is a great example of what you don’t see in black actors anymore. He’s built like a gorilla yet has that hyper-expressive, almost childish type of face that’s constantly brimming with emotion and character. He leaves an impression on the audience because he naturally is a character in real life.
Compare him to the nig who played Finn in the new Disney Star Wars and it’s so easy to see why modern black actors fall flat in comparison. He isn’t particularly good or bad looking. His expressions are robotic and feel like they’re done entirely to-the-script. There’s just nothing remarkable about him at all. There are many such cases of this in modern Hollywood.
New shows are full of chimps. No one wants to watch chimps. Not even chimps want to see themselves.
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4474380-the-top-streamed-shows-are-almost-all-old-why/
>Awful writing
>Same standard characterization for male characters
>Same standard "strong female" characterization for female characters
>Copious swearing
>No sex appeal
>Half the actresses look mid af
turns out people want bloated seasons of their favorite characters, bottle episodes, random episodes like a musical episode, an entire episode all about a new character who doesn't impact the main story until later, etc
groundhogs day episode
Gee, I wonder.
I think one point that anons aren't mentioning is the comfort factor. If you look at the shows being watched, they're usually sitcoms like The Office, Friends, BBT, etc. Many millennials and zoomers watched these shows when they were kids/twenty somethings and life was simpler. When things are as stressful and depressing as they are now people don't want to watch a gritty, wrenching drama, even if it is well written (which most modern dramas aren't). They want something where the stakes aren't too high and the characters are largely supportive of each other: in essence, friend simulators to fill the void created by the elimination of the sense of community in American life.
I mean what is there to watch?
It's just a a gigantic pile of random shows pushed out onto streaming services, almost all of which are cancelled early into their lives. There is nothing to get invested in. I don't even bother watching shows I've got interested in now because I'd rather wait and see if it survives a few seasons first.
They dug this grave.
Gilmore Girls was so good in part because it was a very high quality soap opera with clever writing and exception timing and delivery that was an escape from the monotony of day to day life. Hollywood is now specializing in making your television reflect your real life day to day suffering.
Shows like Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Lost, Seinfeld and Friends are still talked about today. Is there a single show from the past ten years that will be talked about ten years from now? Maybe Stranger Things?
gay of thrones maybe?
My sister really likes this show. Not sure why she's not even white
She's rewatching friends now
What kind of stupid ass question is that? They know the answer and you know the answer