What are you currently watching on TV?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

season 3 of Community

[VinylGuy]

We watched the first episode of Mare of Easttown. Some clunky exposition dialogue aside, it doesn’t seem like a bad show, but...The wife and I agree we’ve about had our fill of this sort of poverty/misery porn. Not gonna keep watching it.

i started this one yesterday, and i like it.
I need to see where it goes with the crime stuff. But i also agree...HBO seems to need at least one show per year with a very famous star that shows us how awful and sad is to be a normal person. Its like they say ¨ey look im awful like you!!¨

Its kinda weird.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

The Mark Ruffalo one from last year was suuuuper depressing and poor guys his life sucked hard. And you got this huge celebrities playing they are poor and sad, its kinda mmmm weird.

I will watch at least one more from the new show, to see whats the crime about.

[Farmer John]

season 3 of Community

[Mickey]

We watched the first episode of Mare of Easttown. Some clunky exposition dialogue aside, it doesn’t seem like a bad show, but...The wife and I agree we’ve about had our fill of this sort of poverty/misery porn. Not gonna keep watching it.

i started this one yesterday, and i like it.
I need to see where it goes with the crime stuff. But i also agree...HBO seems to need at least one show per year with a very famous star that shows us how awful and sad is to be a normal person. Its like they say ¨ey look im awful like you!!¨

Its kinda weird.

Yeah, True Detective, Sharp Objects, Mare, plus other shows on other streaming networks...it’s a genre now, call it “poor white trash who all do opiates and kill each other and sometimes molest each other too.”

Yeah wonder why there's a bunch of shows about poverty and drug use translated into the language of moral depravity and set in rural spaces in 2021.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Mickey]

We watched the first episode of Mare of Easttown. Some clunky exposition dialogue aside, it doesn’t seem like a bad show, but...The wife and I agree we’ve about had our fill of this sort of poverty/misery porn. Not gonna keep watching it.

i started this one yesterday, and i like it.
I need to see where it goes with the crime stuff. But i also agree...HBO seems to need at least one show per year with a very famous star that shows us how awful and sad is to be a normal person. Its like they say ¨ey look im awful like you!!¨

Its kinda weird.

Yeah, True Detective, Sharp Objects, Mare, plus other shows on other streaming networks...it’s a genre now, call it “poor white trash who all do opiates and kill each other and sometimes molest each other too.”

Yeah wonder why there's a bunch of shows about poverty and drug use translated into the language of moral depravity and set in rural spaces in 2021.

Don’t forget the part about their being available on premium streaming services, all starring millionaires

I didn't!

[Farmer John]

Wealthy actors should only play wealthy characters. I've always said that.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Malloy]

Wealthy actors should only play wealthy characters. I've always said that.

i've always said we need to get artifice out of art

[Malloy]

Hey I don’t care who they play, but the viewer relationship with this sort of show is extremely boring and becoming slightly uncomfortable

i don't think you even need to go that far (to the viewer/beholder's relationship to the work). i think you can safely say that these shows are extremely boring, regardless of their sincerity

[Malloy]

more propaganda -- about how utterly fucked u.s. pharmaceutical companies are, how hollowed out economic prospects are in rural areas and cities, how drug dependency, overdose and suicide has and continues to rise -- is good and necessary (but insufficient to the problems we face).

but the representation of these subjects to make a moral argument doesn't necessarily result in great artworks. most of these shows are after-school specials that don't understand themselves as such.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Mickey]

...zoning?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Mickey]

Show me on the doll where zoning touched Rust Cohle.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.