political tv shows
like people are always super surprised by how much i hate the west wing, house of cards, whatever
of course ppl who actually understand my politics may not be so surprised
As much as I admire the craft, the straight videogame esque premise (gotta go up), and Iko Uwais, I find The Raid slightly boring. I think the absolute crispness of digital photography makes it look too much like a soundstage? I think itās a movie everyone should watch and learn from but I donāt personally adore it.
tbh i donāt think i really experience this but there are a lot of things i know ill like that i keep putting off for no good reason
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I think Iām afraid that theyāll let me down, or that my current mental state wonāt let me enjoy them properly and that itāll ābe a wasteā to experience them right now. So Iām purposefully watching/reading/playing stuff I expect to be kind of crap so that my expectations will be met.
Emotions are weird.
counterstrike
Well if it gets the subject matter wrong itās excruciating, and thereās this pervasive (and American) take that casts it all in heroic and tragic terms, far above mortalsā work.
Iannuciās stuff passes this bar, though (In the Thick of It, In the Loop, Veep)
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I was trying to describe this to @Godamn_Milkman last night while we played Rocket League, especially regarding Undertale. I described it as being āintimidatedā but I think this is a better way of saying it.
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Thereās nothing intimidating about Undertale, it is entirely unassuming.
yeah i think i really hate the american exceptionalism of it all, also the āāāheroesāāāā of these shows always seem to be good hearted technocrats
itās a politics without an american people, except as foil
iāve been meaning to watch veep and in the thick of it
If you havenāt seen In the Loop itās the best start - magnificent, self-contained, and hits harder (for me) because itās about the foundational political fight of my life, the start of the Iraq War.
His fundamental perspective is politics as inflamed immune system, an office overreacting to every micro-crisis and unable to see any larger picture after too many sleepless nights. They obliquely touch on the fact that these things matter to the lives of millions but In the Loop is a lot more direct about it and successfully hits the pathos itās capable of.
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Well itās not just Undertale, itās anything that is supposed to be āreally good.ā Itās not the thing itself, it is the atmosphere surrounding the thing.
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i try to take a really light touch when iām recommending a thing i think someone might like these days because itās easy to scare someone off by being too effusive, or seeming too pushy
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Serial
[/quote]Serial Season 1 I canāt bother with, but Season 2 was a pretty fascinating listen, even as it morphed to be less about Bergdahl and more about the experience of the Afghan war.
This is probably me being a dick, but this is how I am with music. Like if you recommend it to me, I might not listen to it ever. If you just play it around me, I will at least listen a little.
HoC is just a silly soap opera. Itās remarkably apolitical for being a show set where it is. That being said, I donāt consider it particularly good, just mildly enjoyable.
YES THIS. Like this has genuinely prevented me from playing Undertale, as I feel like if I donāt love it, people will hate me, but knowing that is going to make me very nitpicky about it.
Hitchcockās North by Northwest.
Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Superhero comics, generally.
I was fortunate enough to know nothing about NbNW, and accidentally saw it on tv one night years ago. It was super fun adventure stuff and the sexual tension between the characters was surprisingly affecting (an odd point to say but it stood out to me).
Serial s1 was kinda engrossing, but the biggest turn off was finding out how absolutely ravenous and huge the reddit groups dedicated to the show were and the crazy they tried playing amateur detective, it kind of weirded me out?
season 2 was more interesting than 1 IMO
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QI series N
So like what everyone kept saying about Serial was āsometimes I think he did it, sometimes I think he didnāt???ā which, no matter what else you think about it, definitely means at least one thing: he was not guilty, whether or not he was innocent.
I donāt give a shit about innocence, so thatās pretty much the main hook of the show gone, for me. I guess a lot of other people like seeing how the justice sausage gets made, but like, thatās just my life. I donāt want to listen to a show about work.
Yeah, that is part of why season 2 rules, in that nobody ever pretends Beau Bergdahl didnāt do it. They just try to talk about why he did it. Innocence isnāt really an issue there.