TV Quality Debate
Discussions critique and defend the quality of modern television programming, comparing it to past eras, streaming services, reality TV, soap operas, and internet content like YouTube.
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Outside narrative driven / sports / blue planet level stuff, isn’t a huge part of TV just YouTube/Podcasts/etc now? Curation and everything built in.I was led to a oddly human travel show and watched it go from a few thousand to millions of subscribers over the past couple years, they were recently on the Ukrainian / Russian border the day before the invasion talking to locals and ended up leaving on a refugee train in 1080p60, 3+ million views.Questionable charact
By that logic everything on TV is a pale imitation of something else.
comparison of men focused tv shows vs. soap operas.Not everything needs to benefit you
While I've been a huge fan of this 'golden age of TV', I can't help but wonder to which degree I'm fooling myself by spending hours on 'extremely high quality' television that ultimately still is primarily entertainment and doesn't 'improve' my life in any real way.The Wire felt like it actually taught me something and made me think about society and my role in it. But to what extent are Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and Westworld ba
Full disclosure: I don't disagree. In fact, the TV show is pretty funny.That said, in the name of viewers and profits, they are drawn to the mundane and the minutia. Yes, the model works for them. But that doesn't mean every media source has to be so disposable in terms of actual quality/value of the message delivered.
I think you've got it backwards.That was the hallmark of old TV, on networks. Since the start of TV in the 50's.There are tons of modern TV shows that don't do anything you're talking about because they're made for streamers or paid TV without ads.It sounds like you watch different shows than I do, but I watch a lot of TV and haven't seen what you're talking about in many, many years. Not with Squid Game or Stranger Things on Netflix, or
The same reason television isn't more fun and weird.
Maybe it's like TV? There's still some new content but the bulk of the material are reruns.
That might be a comment on the quality of modern TV, perhaps?
Its funny because I thought the same thing today watching "real" TV. This internet thing, it spoils us.