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Is it fair to say there’s a corollary?
The era of demanding and discriminating audiences is over.
Also, average IQs in the C suite have been plummeting for decades.
It’s no wonder we’re stuck with endless retreads and stories from other countries.
It's not the CSuite that's a problem. The general populous is stupid. There's no way to sugar coat it. They don't keep up with current affairs, they don't have enough intrinsic knowledge of other subjects to allow for witty or satirical productions, or even just social commentary sitcoms. And if you make one line out of a series that offends one person somewhere, your show is cancelled, writers fired, etc...
It's easy to see where the problem is, and the audience doesn't want it. They want curated news and media that makes them happy and agreeable. Exactly what an algorithm in tiktok does.
That's always been true though, and there's always been high quality 'prestige' TV.
Bullshit. You're using decisions made by those moronic CSuits to indicate that ... the CSuits aren't dumb?? You're literally using circular logic...
"they cancel all the complex stuff!", yea... because they're fucking stupid idiots playing to the lowest common denominator...
You're using their bad decisions as justification to say that they couldn't possibly be bad decisions because they're making those decisions... Literally circular logic.
I call it "netflix syndrome" and see it creaping into basically everything, its so annoying. pointless romances, callback settups that don't pay off, saying the quiet part out loud/handholding the audience through the plot/losing the art of "show, don't tell", awful writing and casting, cringe-inducing diologue... I could go on all day, everyone's had a friend recommend one of these shows only you to find it unwatchable in the first 15 minutes.
You just described the vast majority of movies at TV for the four decades I have been watching. Maybe people are just noticing it more now.
What TV shows, may I ask, do you like?
succession, the first few seasons of the expanse, first few seasons of billions, I'm also a bit of a hipocrite I'll admit to enjoying money heist even though i'd consider it extremely "netflixy" at times. I'm not totally turned off by netflixy shows, they have their time and place when I want to turn my brain off and relax, but I'm usually more drawn to something a little more engaging.
Black Sails, Counterpart, For All Mankind, Severance, Babylon Berlin, Warrior, Silo, Foundation, Revenant, House of the Dragons
seen severance (loved), silo was great, house of dragons was nice, for all mankind has been on my list for a while, probably my next show. Thanks for the list!
Season 4 of For All Mankind just had their season finale and it was fantastic