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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
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Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, & Twin Peaks: The Return - seminal to so many other TV shows and video games. Had a trans character (played by a cis man fwiw but still) in the 90s that was not meant as a joke and they return in 2017's The Return where Lynch gives the (arguably) famous "Fix your hearts or die" line. Great soundtrack throughout. And all around amazing cast of actors (many of which, sadly, never anything better afterwards). Can still be debated to this day about certain themes, the meaning, etc. If the theme song doesn't evoke something in you we can't be friends (I knew my best friend was my best friend when we used to live together back in 2016 and I was rewatching through S1-2 in prep for The Return & they came out of their room one night and went "alright tell me about this damn show, I've heard this theme song every night from my room for like the last week")
Mad Men - One of the shows that really ushered in the current 'golden age' of TV we're in at the moment (although I'd argue that ended basically; so maybe 'last golden age of TV' is more proper). The last show I remember getting really popular before streaming was big. Seven tight seasons of 1960s American advertising, the cynicism that dwells within it, and one man's struggles. This isn't exactly a communist show or anything & is set in the late 50s-60s, so there are moments where you'll go 'wtf is this' but the show never really tries to use the era for shock value. Also has an amazing soundtrack. Both Jon Hamm and Elizabeth Moss' big breaks & they never have a bad scene or episode. I will always recommend this one to people who haven't seen it because, like how Breaking Bad (which aired basically concurrently to Mad Men) and Game of Thrones were a lot of people's first 'prestige' TV show they watched as it aired, Mad Men was mine. Watch the Carousel pitch from the first season's finale if you want some idea of what the show is about.
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Don Draper is a cheating, lying, alcoholic who doesn't even love himself. Days before the pitch he gives his brother, who just wanted to see him, a wad of cash and tells him to never contact him again out of fear his old life would reemerge. He finds out his brother killed himself in his hotel room and then gives a great pitch about how Kodak's new device should be called The Carousel because it lets you go 'Around and around and back home again. To a place where we know that you're loved'. GOOD SHOW fuck you Don you're an assholeThe Rehearsal - I think Nathan Fielder and I would get along (or hate eachother) if only because we are very weird but also strangely sincere. Nothing like Nathan For You, which was more comedic but that isn't to say The Rehearsal doesn't share a lot of the same roots - it just goes in a different direction.
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thanks babe did you like twin peaks