• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    That’s just bad shows. The ones that you forget about or don’t care about after they’re gone. (I haven’t seen either of his examples, so this isn’t specifically about those two.) The Wire, Breaking Bad, etc are better than 90% of movies, so I would argue they absolutely are memorable and enduring. Just like the movie classics are obviously better than 90% of TV shows. Quality is quality.

    Saying TV isn’t (or can’t be) as good as movies is exactly the same as the old “videogames can’t be art” take, and comes across as equally out-of-touch and biased. QT should take the L on this opinion, but he already went on Joe Rogan…

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      3 days ago

      He’s right about Yellowstone though. It is focus group fluff. There’s good TV out there but Yellowstone isn’t it.

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        The way the show ignored anything from the ending of season 3 like it didn’t happen really cut through the noise. Season 4 onwards is a shitty soap opera cut with stupid b-roll of ranch life that does nothing to advance the story only to fill out the time.

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      3 days ago

      Those tv shows are absolutely epic, and is one of the reasons I think most of the other stuff is pure crap.

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      3 days ago

      The Wire is hands down the absolute best TV show ever made. Breaking Bad borrowed heavily from The Wire’s visual symbolism and they brilliantly expanded on it.

      Vs a garbage show like Ozarks.

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        Ok, umbrage here for Ozarks. Ozarks characters found themselves in situations and made the best decision at that time. So much tv is full of lazy writing where obvious easy solutions to “problems” are discarded or not considered at all.