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Yes which is why I started saying the whole system sucks beyond this one. Its pretty much the same across the board with endless remakes and reuse of ip.
Well most TV shows have always been adaptations, remakes in some way. There's still good stuff if you look.
I mean now yeah but not in the past. Im not saying there is absolutely no good things out there and im sure more will eke in but there is so much bad. What im saying is there just is no incentive to do better since people keep up the subscriptions. I sorta wish everyone would just boycott this stuff and force the media companies to earn viewers by making quality shows.
You should have seen TV when I was a kid. Jesus. Despite my fervent nostalgia, I can hardly watch anything from the 70s, 80s, even 90s.
Exception to the rule: MASH was fucking great, though diminished by the laugh track. Without? Some of the finest TV ever filmed.
Despite the hate the final two seasons caught, GoT was rock and fucking roll, had never seen so many people so deeply invested in a TV drama. OK, "who shot JR" was one hell of a summer. :)
Wife and I are watching the new Shogun again. Compared to the 80s version, it's the same story filmed by toddlers. (Respect for the original and the work done! Way ahead of it's time!) My god, it's so far beyond what even the best movies were in the day, I haven't words.
And there's so much more quality TV I haven't scratched the surface. 80s me would have shit kittens to see some of these shows at home, let alone in the theatre.
My nostalgia is strong watching buck rogers, space 1999, tos, and so many crappy cartoons.
Eh, most TV shows in the 80s, 90s and 00s were cheap hangout sitcoms, cop shows, medical shows or legal shows. Pretty basic stuff. TV now is much more adventurous than then.
Well yeah a split between comedy and drama. I would say 90's were better than the 80's and felt like the aughts was where you got all the consolidation and plethora of cheap reality shows. I sorta feel like now technology made cheap adventure shows easier to do so they took the place of reality tv.
You would never get shows like Foundation, or House of the Dragon, or Fallout or Silo or For All Mankind in the 90s or 00s.
Plus we now have a plethora of international content.
I will give you the international but like all those shows where just sorta alright to me with fallout being on the low side and foundation on the high. Im very happy the special effects are where they are at but I feel the stories could be better and oftentimes by just following the source material better.
Chernobyl, Dark, Severance, Warrior (2019), Succession, Shogun, Andor, Slow Horses, Dopesick, The Pitt, The Expanse, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Babylon Berlin, Beef
I haven't seen all of these, but they're all hgihly rated. Notably the strengths of Foundation, ironically, is where it ignores the source material.
I do agree the 00s and 90s were better for sitcoms though, and episodic shows.
Chernobyl was very good as was severance. Expanse was very good but I felt it sorta lost its momentum after a season or two Not sue on andor but like with the madolorian I started to feel if anything with an ip like star wars did not suck it was louded as so awesome. Many of those I have not seen as well but I have sorta given up on media so I will increasingly be unplugged. I guess its more than just media Im really just dissatisfied with the way everything is going and looking to sorta opt out of everything that I don't absolutely need. I have been feeling very learyesque.