Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 187

Yeah my friends that have kids and some of my cousins that has kids say they all watch YouTube all the time. No one cares about TV and they might watch the new Disney/Pixar movie.

 

Yes but your peers weren't doing that. Teenagers are always very culturally ignorant, but you always have a handful of kids that will catch your more obscure references. A kid quoted Pulp Fiction to me yesterday.

 

Yeah I guess up until high school, a huge part of what I watched were things with a much weaker shelf life, like reality/game shows. Not so much into watching sports but if that was your thing then it probably consumed tons of your time as well. And for the average person they probably don’t shed that until after high school, if ever

 

Eh, maybe I just had a nerdy gradeschool/high school, even the “cool” kids. I’d say most of the kids in the class were well versed on pop culture when I was growing up. A few kids got in trouble for making a “boxers or briefs” reference in a religion video they made. Gary Busey being a maniac was a running joke for all of middle school

 

I think it might be an age thing. I'm with Spo. My friends and I had I love the 80s/90s/70s whatever on all the time. I think it's because we were the last generation to exist before internet left dial-up. You had to work harder to understand and know all these references and names and songs and movies, so it had some cache that ended when everything was at your fingertips all the time.

 

Can I get a... pop up video

 

everyone went wild today

 

I absolutely loved the show and even I was burnt out on talking about it a week or two after. I think maybe the love would have lasted longer if they actually stuck the landing, but the oversaturation of HOW IS IT GONNA END for months and months and months plus the lackluster ending I think people were just ready to be done. I think the world that HBO is rumored to be building will bring people back though. They've got a built in fan base of GRRM's books/lore AND can probably salvage a decent amount of the GOT fandom as well. They probably need to nail the first episode though. Jaime pushing Bran out of the tower to end the first episode definitely roped people in.

I think a show like Stranger Things would have more sticking power right now if they did weekly shows instead of the binge drop.

 

Being a teacher, I make references all the time sometimes just to see who picks up on some of it. I usually have a few kids that get it. I love quoting movies and TV shows with my kids. The easiest references these days are MCU and Star Wars once of course. A lot of my students are very aware of the prequel memes haha.

Slightly related, last year I said "cash rules everything around me, dolla dolla bill y'all"...i forget why, I think we were talking about how money/donations influence politics. And the girl responded "wait why do I know that?" and I was assuming my mostly white middle class students in this class would have known it from the Wyclef Jean song that was popular in the late 2000s, and I opened my mouth to say that...but this (somewhat nerdy) white dude in my class turns around to her and says "Cream, Wu Tang Clan." like it was common knowledge that everyone his age knew. I was shocked lol

 

Binging a show is really not a good way to watch something. It all becomes one big blur and is too easy to forget by the time the next season comes around. Stranger Things, Bojack Horseman, Big Mouth - I can think of the general overarching plots of these shows, but I could barely tell you one episode from another. An episode each week really is better. Lets you take in everything and think about it for a bit before moving on

 

100% agreed. I hated the move towards binging and I'm glad some orgs are already moving away from it, ie Mandalorian being weekly

 

I have no interest in watching a show weekly. I will wait a show has finished its run and watch it at my own pace.

 

binging has killed discussion because everyone's already over a show before I can start it haha

 

i agree with some much of what you say but then you’ll have one or two takes seemingly a week that are just entirely baffling

 

there’s a reason more and more of the new networks are doing a week to week basis like the old days and abandoning the netflix model. it has proven to be good for launching a show that might have passed under the radar otherwise (see: bridgerton) but it’s a direct hinderance to any show that will have an audience already baked in

 

I don't want to follow someone else's schedule, whether it is the frustration of limited releases or a weekly TV show. The weekly episode was not made out of some artistic intent, it was designed to provide a reason for viewers to continue so advertisers can sell you stuff. It also limits how much longform storytelling you can do when you are not sure if people saw the last episode, if they even remember the finer details at all.

 

Both can and for me, are, true. I dont want to watch a show weekly. I also dont want to binge a show.

 

The speed at which I go through a show usually depends on the quality. I am trying to pull myself over the finish line with the last two seasons of King of the Hill, but when I was in the midst of the great seasons I was watching more episodes per day.

 

Saw all the talk about Hunger Games and I just want to remind people:

Jennifer Lawrence is a piece of shit who has consistently made offensive comments and I think gets such a pass for the sole reason of coming off as a weird and dorky, down to earth white female that people find relatable.

Making offensive remarks that belittle people who have mental health issues, insult trans people, or flat out disregard people's sacred land and customs is not acceptable and she needs to be held accountable for those things.

 

Give me weekly episodes over binging any time. There’s too much stuff out there to try and keep up on. It’s exhausting. To try and connect with someone that just runs through something is a chore.

That said, I do like the freedom that something like Disney gives to their show, in terms of their running time. Let some episodes be 25 minutes, while others are like 45. Do whatever serves the story for that ep.

 

Hopefully we just skip to 00's nostalgia.

 

Gonna laugh when 2000s nostalgia is a reboot of “Glee,” Fred from YouTube, Ray William Johnson hosting “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Epic Movie 2.”

 

Yep. I've even started waiting on brand new shows until they have a few seasons ready or are completely finished.

Blasting through Mr Robot in a week was so much more fun and satisfying than trying to watch it weekly when it came out and then having to wait a year for season 2.

 

The only time I've seen any Twilight is drunk with my friend with the commentary on and it's more than worth it to hear Pattinson shit on the movie the whole time

 

Obviously the weekly episode wasn’t made out of artistic intent, but neither was the episodic format in general. Yet that’s what we have and so when someone makes a tv show rather than a movie, each episode of a show is ostensibly a piece of art in and of itself and should be assessed as such (obviously you can critique the series as a whole, but you know what I mean). Much like how each movie in a series can/should be assessed independently. And in a world where there *is* now always the option to binge-watch if the viewer prefers to wait until all of the episodes are available, there isn’t really an excuse to self-limit any longform storytelling.

You can blame the consumer for choosing to binge a show rather than taking it at their own pace, I guess, but that’s such a ubiquitous phenomenon now that it seems silly to be like “just don’t binge the show.” The next episode is right there, of course I’m going to want to start it immediately if I have the option.