• coyootje@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Alright I’ll bite, give me some examples of good shows with multiple layers of storytelling, interesting characters and engaging story telling that were made in the last five years. And as I’ve said in another comment, I know there’s still some good ones out there (The Boys, Gen V, Blue eye samurai, Better call Saul, After life), my point is that it feels like there’s less of these while the total amount of shows has only increased over time.

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      10 months ago

      After rereading my comment I’m sorry that I started out so aggressively. That wasn’t fair to you.

      I think the feeling of fewer good shows coming out stems from a few places.

      1. The shows that we remember tend to be the ones that left a lasting impact. I think that when looking back it’s important to recognize our nostalgia tinted lense.

      2. The feeling that there’s so many more shows may come from the accessibility that streaming services have created. Scrolling through massive catalogs let’s us see the massive amount of options and how few of them we actually want to engage with. I’d argue that the ratio of good to bad shows isn’t substantially different from before, but how we engage with these shows have changed. Admittedly, I haven’t counted all of the good and bad recent shows and then compared that with the amount of good and bad shows from a couple decades ago.

      3. “They don’t make shows like they uses to,” is the type of thing people have said forever when their tastes stop developing and the cultural zeitgeist moves on without them.

      In addition to the shows you mentioned, I would add, The Bear, The Last of Us, Arcane, and Our Flag Means Death.

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        10 months ago

        How the fuck are you getting upvotes for lashing out? Lemmy fucktards out here clapping each other on the back for being absolutely vile.

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      The Crown

      The Last of Us

      Loki

      Succession

      Will Trent

      Yellow jackets

      Abbott Elementary

      Mrs Maisel

      Reservation Dogs

      What We Do in the Shadows

      White House Plumbers

      Andor

      House of the Dragon

      Severance

      Yellowstone

      The White Lotus

      Barry

      Ghosts

      The Bear

      Dead to Me

      Pam & Tommy

      Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

      Inventing Anna

      Bodies

      Star Trek Lower Decks

      Squid Game

      The Morning Show

      This Is Us

      The Great

      Sex Education

      WandaVision

      Ozark

      Lovecraft Country

      Perry Mason

      Schitt’s Creek

      Fleabag

      Barry

      PEN15

      Chernobyl

      Bojack Horseman

      The Good Place

      Superstore

      Catch-22