Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote: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 wrote: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.

Steve Albini wrote: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 wrote:season 3 of Community

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote: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.”

Steve Albini wrote: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 wrote:

Mickey wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote: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

Steve Albini wrote: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.

Farmer John wrote:Wealthy actors should only play wealthy characters. I've always said that.

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

Steve Albini wrote: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.

Steve Albini wrote: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.

Steve Albini wrote: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.

Steve Albini wrote: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.