Unpopular Opinions about TV

[Xanen]

The men on tv need to get sluttier.

Seriously, though, I wish we had more realistic take on life in tv shows. A lot of shows either edge too far into the upsetting facets of life, or ignore them entirely. I deadass think the only show to come close is Coronation Street and that's saying something.

 

[Fat Tub of Lard]

I miss Live PD, the show was taken off the air for bullshit reasons. I wish it would come back.

Wish granted.

Sorta. Yeah, first Cops gets revived by Fox News for its niche SVOD and now the Live PD people have a show on a cable network nobody watched.

Well, I did when they ran The Critic a long time ago, but that's about it.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Wish granted.

Sorta. Yeah, first Cops gets revived by Fox News for its niche SVOD and now the Live PD people have a show on a cable network nobody watched.

Well, I did when they ran The Critic a long time ago, but that's about it.

This feels like a monkey's paw wish.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Strangers Things feels like a zoomer was inspired by Millennials who never experienced the 80's but wouldn't shut up about how awesome the 80's were and all they talk about is horror and sci-fi movies then made a TV series about it.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Strangers Things feels like a zoomer was inspired by Millennials who never experienced the 80's but wouldn't shut up about how awesome the 80's were and all they talk about is horror and sci-fi movies then made a TV series about it.

It's not so much of a TV thing as it is a period thing, but the 80s are THE most overrated era of the 20th century. Everyone had stupid hair and stupid fashion. The music wasn't as good as the 70s either. I find it telling that media in the 80s kept having 50s nostalgia in it. The 90s, as bland as they were, were bland because everyone sobered up and toned everything down.

 

[Jason Wynn]

The 80s revival of The Twilight Zone is pretty damn good. Not as good as Serling’s original, but it’s a worthy successor.

 

[Coptakhenaten]

I won't deny 80s had bad fashion, 90s fashion is way better. However 80s had the best Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Metallica, and Iron Maiden Songs. Also while it had beginnings in the late 70s the 1980s was really when home computers and consoles really kicked off. Also the nostalgia comes from broad generalizations of how the United States stood at the time. From a nostalgia-goggles lens, the later 1960s and 1970s were times of scandal and drama that shook people's faith in the United States. Meanwhile the 1980s had the US at its military height with one of its strongest presidents with a booming economy. It is the same reason there is nostalgia for the 1920s and 1950s. I still prefer the 90s however because that is when all my favorite media came out.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

The Big Bang Theory’s biggest problem is that it tries too hard to be topical; the over-reliance on “nerd culture” is only a side effect. It focuses on pop culture just enough that consoomers will go “oh yeah, I ‘member that thing!” without ever going beyond surface-level references. For example, there’s one episode that revolves around them binging “the online Star Wars game”. It’s talking about The Old Republic, which was new at the time, but they expect the audience to ignore the fact that there are like 10 different online Star Wars games and just clap at the New Popular Nerd Thing reference. There’s also the main characters frequently being shown playing Wii games for the first few seasons while the system was at the height of its popularity, before turning a hard 180 and bashing the Wii around 2013 when disliking it became cool. It leads to the show not having an identity beyond referencing things that are currently popular.

Even beyond pop culture, it treats Current Year social issues the same way. In one episode, Raj says something like “it’s okay to think a man is attractive without indulging in ‘the love that dare not speak its name’”, then one or two seasons later says thinking that gays should only marry other gays (as opposed to marrying a beard) is homophobic. I liked TBBT as a teenager, but it’s aged terribly, and the best episodes are the ones that stay as far away from pop culture and the Current Year as possible.

Also, fuck Howard “religious Jew or white atheist depending on the situation” Wolowitz.

My biggest problem with the Big Bang Theory was that it went from being a comedy about scientists to a comedy about sci fi geeks who happened to be scientists.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Luther with Idris Elba was the last great good cop bad cop TV show on BBC that did not try to show horn race or diversity as the only thing that‘s good about his character.

It still is a shame that they tried to make him a James Bond by only focusing on those two things.

 

[Oats12345]

I miss Live PD, the show was taken off the air for bullshit reasons. I wish it would come back.

I agree. Fuck BLM!!!

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I'm surprised all of The Good Place was planned out. It felt like a one season show.

 

[Becky McDonald]

Sleepy Hollow and Twelve Monkeys (the Sci-Fi TV adaptation) were both massively slept on during their original broadcast and deserve reappraisal.

Unfortunately, the former got fucked by both its show writers and the network once it became obvious it wasn't going to fulfill a 7 season storyline, as was originally planned. The show's quality took a nosedive once it became a soap opera centred around Ichabod's strained familial relations, and Abby's death was the final nail in the coffin. The last season was so bizarre in the sense it tried to write a new big bad into the story, billionaire Malcolm Dreyfuss (who is so OBVIOUSLY a Trump expy given the Scottish forename and German surname) who wasn't convincing in his role for a second. The "Bones" crossover was painful as well, and an obvious sign the show was a sinking ship trying a final Hail Mary to secure some better ratings. But still, the original concept was great and S1 was brilliant.

Twelve Monkeys was much more successful, the only problem is hardly anyone watched it. After its first season, no-one really cared about it, and it didn't help Terry Gilliam disowned it. Because of this, you'd think they butchered the source material. But really, they didn't, Gilliam was just being unnecessarily salty. The only major change from the original movie is the sex-shift of Brad Pitt's character from a man to a woman, with Jeffrey Goines becoming Jennifer. But her actress, Emily Hampshire, acted the HELL out of her and is easily a highlight from the show.

It would have been nice to have another season or so, and you can tell it didn't have the biggest budget due to the episode where they go back in time to 1987 Japan, most of it's in a nightclub to minimise expenditure on retro props like cars and building facades. But at its core, it's a really solid show and is certainly a welcome adaptation compared to some of the utter garbage we get nowadays (i.e. Rangz o' Powah).

 

[Tor Lugosi]

I found Bosch only... okayish. I made it to the middle of season four before giving up. It doesn't do anything exceptionally well -- the police work / investigative stuff isn't detailed or focused on enough to be interesting, the mysteries are never really compelling, and the criminals are usually really bland. The cast of characters is middling -- I liked J. Edgar but beyond that they're mostly wooden, especially Bosch himself a lot of the times. I think it tries to eat its cake and have it, too by having over-the-top, larger than life cases while also trying to be a grounded, subdued police show... but it ends up not doing well at either of those two things.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

Atlanta is stupidly overrated and it's the worst circlejerk fodder since Rick and Morty. Donald Glover is so far up his own ass that he can see his own back teeth.

edit: and since everyone wants to compare the two shows, DAVE is a much more enjoyable viewing experience.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine really is a great example as to what happens when you rely on current day Saturday Night Live humor to make the later seasons’ episodes unfunny, one by one.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the cop TV version of The Big Bang Theory. I've noticed that all the same kind of fags that adore the latter also love the former.

Euphoria is getting shilled tremendously online that I wonder if the astroturfing from social media is going to make people hate the show.

Euphoria feels like Glee but the next step forward.

 

[Hummingbird]

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: I know having Trevor die while proposing to Hillary was darkly funny, but I think it would've been more fun if he survived (or at least put him in a wheelchair). Imagine the fun of Hilary being a total bridezilla, the bills for the wedding getting to Uncle Phil, and maybe the idea of Hilary reproducing.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Atlanta is stupidly overrated and it's the worst circlejerk fodder since Rick and Morty. Donald Glover is so far up his own ass that he can see his own back teeth.

The first season was really good, the second season was good too but start to sniff it's own farts a little too hard

I think everyone has been shitting on the last two seasons.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Atlanta is stupidly overrated and it's the worst circlejerk fodder since Rick and Morty. Donald Glover is so far up his own ass that he can see his own back teeth.

edit: and since everyone wants to compare the two shows, DAVE is a much more enjoyable viewing experience.

Ever since Donald Glover made “This Is America”, he’s been trying too hard to show how “woke” he is by having to make subtle anti-white jokes be the norm while making it all about the “Black Experience”.

Also, “DAVE” is basically a lukewarm version of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but without Lil Dicky making climate change jokes:

 

[Ewan McGregor]

Strangers Things feels like a zoomer was inspired by Millennials who never experienced the 80's but wouldn't shut up about how awesome the 80's were and all they talk about is horror and sci-fi movies then made a TV series about it.

Thanks for this.

I thought I was going mad.

On another hand I don't think it's unpopular at all to shit on Big Bang Theory. I would be lying if I said I never had a laugh with the show, but it is an extremely shallow show against which I hold two things:

First, the show does feel like if the sort of people who would mock me in High School for being a nerd made a TV Show to continue mocking me.

Second, the show made performative nerdom a thing, and I'll curse that till the day I die.

 

[That Chris Guy]

Not sure if it's unpopular, but I don't think many people talked about it from this perspective:

The Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story drama - while an impressive job by Evan Peters on the titular killer - is surrounded by some real woke shit towards the end imo.

Spoiler: Long and autistic breakdown

Too much focus on that Glenda Cleveland character, who they portrayed as living next door to Dahmer when she was only in an adjacent building, and they played her up like she had it as badly as any of the families who lost people to him. The Netflix drama amalgamates her into the accounts of several different black people: she was not present when the 14-year old was found naked in the street (those people were her relatives), and she was not uncomfortably offered a sandwich by Dahmer (another person entirely). They spend an awful lot of time on her when they could have spent it on other families who get barely more than a footnote in the entire drama, or even the two families they spend about the length of an episode on. In fact, I think they spend more time on her stupid, self-masturbatory "suffering by empathy" tripe than any of the actual victims.

They have her say that Jeffrey Dahmer was a worse person than John Wayne Gacy - a guy who nearly fucking doubled Dahmer's body count and was an unrepentant psychopath who took pleasure in prolonging his victims' suffering.

They also play up Christopher Scarver (an eventual triple murderer and Dahmer's killer) like he's a good boy who dindu nuffin who wuz seekin' black/asian justice, when in reality he was just a clout-chasing faggot in his own right who wanted to be known as the guy who killed Jeffrey Dahmer. He has a long exposition with Dahmer prior to killing him in the drama, which is a pile of rubbish - he probably jumped both Anderson and Dahmer and killed them quickly, seeing as he was in a prison and not a theatre.

Scarver also has schizophrenia and messianic delusions, which they use but in a less negative vision than they should have: he was in prison for a life sentence pre-prison murders because he deserved it, and they play up his schizophrenia like it was something beneficial. In essence, they give one piece of shit their editorial blessing because he murdered two other pieces of shit, discounting the fact that it's still murder.

The drama also spends time on Reverend Jackson, who goes on and on about how the "black and brown" community was most affected, muh civil rights, muh racism, blah blah blah. It's true that many of Dahmer's victims were black, but I think it's fairly obvious that this was an unfortunate consequence of where Dahmer's residence was situated and its surrounding community. Cleveland's phone call was ignored, but this was in a high-crime area concerning homosexuality, and I think it's more to do with those particular officers not doing a good enough job in general rather than them deliberately not doing their job properly because the complaint was made by a black woman.

Overall they did an amazing job portraying Dahmer as this mentally-disturbed person who repeatedly failed in life, partly due to upbringing and partly because he was a retard who did stupid things, while at the same time showing the terrible murders he committed. It's a shame they weren't so earnest (with partial exceptions to the families of Tony Hughes and Konerak Sinthasomphone) about the families and people surrounding Dahmer, rather hijacking their victimhood to push social politics and disingenuous browbeating. I guess that's why it's a drama rather than a documentary, though.