first spoiler is a CW and spoiler so yea
spoiler
CW: incest
now the details
spoiler
My gf watched is and just had to tell me about the 18 year old jerking off his older brother while the 18 year old had sex. My gf really seemed to think that was a cool part of the story. uhhhhhhhhhh
I’d rather leave this earthly plane than watch that shock value shit, good god. Which is a shame cause i love Walton Goggins.
Say what you will about our old friend UlyssesT, but he was mostly right about modern “Prestige TV”
TV that is desperate to prove that it’s mature and for adults, but can’t actually write about anything intelligent because execs think viewers are too dumb for that. So now all they have left is trauma bombarding. It’s the ‘Highbrow’ equivalent of those YouTube thumbnails that try to get your attention by showing something gross or violent.
It’s wild that people complain that TV is too inoffensive these days when even only 20 years ago none of this would have passed the censors.
only 20 years ago none of this would have passed the censors.
Seriously it’s like regulations vanished into thin air when streaming showed up. HBO and Cinemax always had adult content (it’s called ‘Skinemax’ for a reason). Now, though, every streaming service has NC-17 films or stuff that’s not even rated but would be NC-17 if it was.
You had to know some shady ass rental shop to get stuff like that back in the day. Most major chains (like Blockbuster) didn’t carry NC-17 films, nevermind actual porn.
the regulations were (are? i guess radio still exists) for over-the-air broadcasting because of some EM spectrum is public property idea which is how they justified regulating speech. never applied to any other kind of distribution, old regular cable tv was only reigned in by advertisers.
for real its so fucking over the top. Cringey and gross as fuck.
Eeh? What is this? Never seen that one before. Is that old English?
Idk, UlyssesT posted it sometimes. Something about pictograms and emojis
Lmao oooh I get it, it’s a medieval Ulysses rant lmao
Yeah it’s a rebus, kind of a word picture puzzle. IIRC Someone, maybe UlyssesT themselves found it and made it to make fun of his emote ridden rants lmao
Also I think it’s German not old English if you wanna know
Ja!
Say what you will about our old friend UlyssesT
Oof rather not open that can of worms again.
Yeah let’s not haha. He’s gone now anyway.
Honestly I’d prefer if we just remember BMF, he was far more entertaining
I miss BMF
Please do , I remember them being a cool person
Did something happen ??
I remember that person
What happened to them and why are all their comments deleted ?
The director is a transphobe apparently too
well if that aint a shit cherry on top of the shit pile
transphobia
Apparently there was a white cis male character who had a fetish for bottoming while pretending to be an Asian woman.
The director went on a podcast and said thus was meant to represent trans people, that it’s a sexual fetish etc
Also the director played the real Ned Schneebly in School of Rock.
He wrote the movie
Old mate telling on himself for being a racist weirdo
I don’t understand the appeal of the show. It felt like it was making fun of rich people, but then there wasnt any cathartic moment where they got served their dues.
Idk maybe I’m too socialist brained now
but then there wasnt any cathartic moment where they got served their dues
Why would you want your cathartic moments to be fictional
The first season at least seemed like it was trying to comment on the psychological impact of making a living by catering to the whims of crazy rich people, while the last episode of this season was “Rich people are basically okay and things will work out for them, also it’s not like you’d be any better, you dumb prole.”
The one good thing about the show is that all of the rich people are very different and all of them are very unlikeable. The workers are shown to be the only good people
Prestige slop. Elevated slop
cw: porn and worse
It’s extra weird how incest is everywhere in porn. I just assume, with zero evidence, that people are more OK with it and it’s being normalised. That by itself isn’t as terrible as the potential abuse that it may be leading to.
There was some article about it awhile ago, but apparently the one demo that still pays for porn (well, mainstream porn anyway) is into incest, which in turn means the incest stuff tends to have better production value meaning people who aren’t into incest watch it too (for free usually) cuz it usually has hotter performers in it. Also I think some of it is just cultural inertia now, incest stuff was popular for a bit and it got meme-ified. I suspect a lot of it is tongue-and-cheek at this point.
I find the alienation and atomization angle interesting too. That average americans are so insular, that there is so little social interaction in most people’s daily lives, that “porn scenarios” are too far outside the lived experience of porn watchers.
If you’re a young man who has a WFH tech job and does nothing but play video games in your free time, you don’t meet women anywhere. If you are under 25 you probably cannot afford to live on your own. The only women you have any interaction with at all are female members of your household. So these incest and pseudo incest videos end up being the only ones that a large number of
menthe type of people most likely to pay for porn can relate to.Because they’re popular with the kind of people who actually pay for porn, they end up being the most common videos filmed and produced, so they end up being the most likely to be found on free sites.
Edit: NoT aLl MeN
Everywhere is turning into alabama
The season was OK, the scenes you talked about wasn’t surprised because it had some ground up since the begging, but how it affected the characters after was pretty meh.
The end of the season was disappointing at best.
The end of the season was disappointing at best.
It was kinda the point I guess? They telegraphed it pretty hard.
They managed to seem preachy about ‘accept there is no resolution’ while doing the most basic predictable resolution of the season, and all while leaving enough hanging to string along another weak season or more. I was really hoping the season was going somewhere interesting from the first episode, but they barely did anything through all these episodes. Really wasted some good acting talent too.
Each season has been worse than the last, but the hype continues.
White lotus buts its about anti-Qing China religious fanatics
White Lotus: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
I’ve gone retvrn mode with TV and have just been watching either trek or stuff like Mcguyver and Murder She Wrote. Prestige is not the model to follow the trash should be the standard and the prestige should have a higher standard. I just wanna see mysteries get solved by a writer or mysteries get solved by the most competent man ever to live and the show to be a year round full time job for everyone so they get burnt out and do some really half assed episodes pretty often. TV shows should be kinda low effort a lot of rhe times shit got a budget just cause it filled a weird time slot and did okay enough to not mess with it. Watching something where it’s kinds clear thsr people are just there for a check fucking rules.
Murder She Wrote is such a well produced show for how slop the plot is sometimes.
tbh I fell asleep every time I tried to watch it. It just didn’t really interest me.
I felt weird misanthropy vibe from the show (weird as in i can’t point a finger on what gives the vibe), and couldn’t finish season 2
The creator got cancelled for being extremely transphobic.
Ewww
i wish you could have seen the look on my face as my gf told me about it. she seemed to think it was an integral part of the story. im just gonna watch Always Sunny for the 2000th time.
How old is your girlfriend ???
No need for specifics
I watched the finale last night and felt a resounding “oh that was predictable”.
Everything that was wrapped up in the final episode was telegraphed so hard in earlier episodes that I pretty much figured out how things were going to end by episode 4.
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What an ass pull with all the fake-out deaths for the rich family. It was also super predictable that they were going to do this, but it actually made me angry the way they did it. I just wanted a happy ending for Gaitok and they even fucked that up.
