Skavau@lemm.eeM to Television@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 days agoI am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square109linkfedilinkarrow-up1401arrow-down111
arrow-up1390arrow-down1external-linkI am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people?www.theguardian.comSkavau@lemm.eeM to Television@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square109linkfedilink
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 day agoIf we redistributed all excess wealth perpetually they wouldn’t exist anymore and we would stop treating them like kings and gods.
minus-squareblarghly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoThen we’d find another way to identify the top of the social heirarchy and watch shows about them
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 hours agoIt would be about the smart people who forward the human race and they would get credit for it.
minus-squareblarghly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·19 hours agoLol. That would be such a boring TV show.
minus-squarewhiskeytango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoNot necessarily. Smart people have interesting lives too. You don’t lose a character arc just because you have more than two brain cells
minus-squareblarghly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours ago“Good people get along and do good things and get credit for it” is not how you make a thrilling drama, lol. I would much rather watch an actor who is a sociopath play a character who is also a sociopath in House of Cards.
minus-squarewhiskeytango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 hours agoNo one is saying don’t make thrilling drama. But there’s a wildly successful British baking show that proves wholesome works too. Instead of defaulting to cynicism and worshipping money/power, let’s make some thrilling drama that don’t involve shitty rich people. I bet you watching rich fuckers eat shit would sell very well given the current climate of neo-feudalism
If we redistributed all excess wealth perpetually they wouldn’t exist anymore and we would stop treating them like kings and gods.
Then we’d find another way to identify the top of the social heirarchy and watch shows about them
It would be about the smart people who forward the human race and they would get credit for it.
Lol. That would be such a boring TV show.
Not necessarily. Smart people have interesting lives too.
You don’t lose a character arc just because you have more than two brain cells
“Good people get along and do good things and get credit for it” is not how you make a thrilling drama, lol. I would much rather watch an actor who is a sociopath play a character who is also a sociopath in House of Cards.
No one is saying don’t make thrilling drama. But there’s a wildly successful British baking show that proves wholesome works too.
Instead of defaulting to cynicism and worshipping money/power, let’s make some thrilling drama that don’t involve shitty rich people.
I bet you watching rich fuckers eat shit would sell very well given the current climate of neo-feudalism