I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50
Surely you’ve heard of the Walking Dead?
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#142I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50
"Beef" was pretty great, I'd recommend that. I'm surprised to see no mention of "The Witcher", though, I figured that would've ranked relatively highly despite the many creative shortcomings of the show.
Upvote for Beef.
As with some shows the description doesn’t really do it justice.
It has a lot more going for it than the premise suggests!
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I really love the show, I think it's a combination of likable characters and feeling special when you understand a physics/chemistry/scifi etc reference. It makes you feel smart because you are in on the references that the smart people are making.
Sure, but the show displays toxic masculinity as a dorky thing that "nerds" just do. Overall, I believe the show is a terrible role model for how men who are in STEM fields should behave to others who do not fit the stereotype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-hOigoxHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7NRONADJ4
In reference to the first video: did the definition of 'misogyny' change while I wasn't looking? These guys don't seem to exhibit 'dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women'. They simply want to have sex.
Also, one of the main features of the show seems to be to point out the fact that, with respect to women: That's Not How To Do It. So, to claim that the show's writers are "doing it wrong" seems to be missing the point. It'd be like criticizing the writers of All in the Family for imbuing Archie Bunker with working-class conservative values. The whole point of the show was to illustrate how wrong he was.
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Sure, but the show displays toxic masculinity as a dorky thing that "nerds" just do. Overall, I believe the show is a terrible role model for how men who are in STEM fields should behave to others who do not fit the stereotype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-hOigoxHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7NRONADJ4
Tropes, Caricature, Mocking, Sterotypes... These things have been the tools of comedy for a LONG time. For good or bad they will remain that. The problem is context, it's Lenny Bruce mocking the cop who is reading back his skit in court. It's Dave Chapel pointing out how people quoting him on twitter without the context miss the point... These are made up people in a make believe world doing made up things. They aren…
I'm not supporting the parent comment. But don't you think we as humans have a penchant for conflating the reel and the real and ending up reinforcing the stereotypes present in the world?
If anything, we need less stereotypes. A caricature is fine, But after a certain point it just feels tiresomely pigeonholing into an idea.
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"Beef" was pretty great, I'd recommend that. I'm surprised to see no mention of "The Witcher", though, I figured that would've ranked relatively highly despite the many creative shortcomings of the show.
"Beef" was the only Netflix show I liked in a long while. Have since canceled Netflix.
I thought the live action One Piece was amazing!
My 14 year old boy loves One Piece anime, so we watched it together so I could see what it was all about.
It’s a surprising substantial TV show in its own right, and for once a fantasy TV is just good fun without trying to hard to be serious drama.
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I thought season 1 was straightforward once you understood the dual timelines
> once you understood the dual timelines That's a big caveat. Haha. I made it through almost the entirety of the season before I realized there were dual timelines. Nothing made sense. Maybe that's on me.. but I feel like enough people had similar issues that it's more likely a major shortcoming of the show.
I think that’s supposed to be intentional though. It didn’t click with me either even though in retrospect characters in the future are reflecting on their pasts that were shown in the very same episode.
I thought it was a really good execution tbh. It’s rare to see fantasy play out the effect of different lifespans
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> The Big Bang Theory 420,400,000 That is just depressing IMO.. I don't understand the appeal to that show..
Regardless of your opinion of the show I don't understand why you'd be "depressed" about other people's entertainment choices.
Lamenting the future of humanity is a time honored pastime.
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#148I wonder what else humanity would have done with those 100 billion hours if it were not for Netflix.
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> The Big Bang Theory 420,400,000 That is just depressing IMO.. I don't understand the appeal to that show..
Regardless of your opinion of the show I don't understand why you'd be "depressed" about other people's entertainment choices.
Because they influence the perception and renewal chances of my entertainment choices.
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#150For anyone else wondering “why they’ve decided to do this”— This is an outcome of the WGA strike negotiations. Now writers (and actors, and anyone else) can use this information to better negotiate their worth with studios, rather than it being 1-sided. All other streaming services should be following suit soon. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/what-we-won > Streaming data transparency: Companies agree to…
That's a great outcome. I was the producer of "The Edge of Democracy" - line 14047 of the Excel file with 200,000 hours viewed. Although we were nominated for an Oscar and became a Netflix originals, they've never disclosed any numbers related to how successful (or not) our film was on the platform.
Very interesting. Now that you know, how do you interpret those numbers ?