Oprah.
That cunt gave the anti vaccine idiots a platform and two charlatans a stage.
Fuck Oprah, fuck “dr.” Phil and especially fuck dr. Oz!
Oh and The Apprentice
Cops. To see how they just pummel people to the ground or pull their guns for the smallest of things is unsettling to watch. Also, the treatment of female officers.
A ton of COPS was filmed in pierce county Washington, where I grew up, I still think about how that undoubtedly changed my life in likely imperceptible ways to this day
Some friend and I were discussing how poorly 24 has aged, but also how different the world views its subject matter now.
24 was insanely good when it was a new thing and then quickly devolved into “wait, you’re torturing a teenager on a hunch and that’s okay?”. Not worth the rewatch.
My favorite part of that is when he has to drive across the city. It would be like an entire episode of him sitting in traffic. They neglect it entirely.
Most everything in 24 could be solved with a text message. Later seasons they had to get creative just to explain why cell phones were out of the picture.
Scrolling through this, a few thoughts come to mind:
- I forgot how deep into the decade Friends went, and it was definitely well past its sell-by date several seasons before it ended.
- Will & Grace probably best fits as a show that aged poorly, though it was groundbreaking in putting gay characters front and center at all.
- As shows that won’t be remembered as fondly because they’re cringey relics of their era, it’s a dead heat between Sex and the City and Entourage. Entourage is worse, but I think contemporary viewers already knew that.
- Honorable mention to Joss Whedon and Ricky Gervais personally making their classic shows a lot harder to enjoy.
The Man Show
And now, girls jumping on trampolines
aged? i hated it then. i guess I’m just glad more of society has caught up.
I tried rewatching How I Met Your Mother and couldn’t get more than a few episodes in because I was so bored. I’m sure my getting older is partly to blame (not as engaged by the unrealistic exploits of some mid 20-somethings), but also Friends-style comedy feels outdated now.
Anything with a laugh track
Watching Friends without the laugh track Is fucking surreal. There’s so much dead time. So many frames of actors just staring at each other lol
If there was a live audience that makes more acceptable for me, I just think of it like a stage play.
Not quite 2000s rather early 2010s, but House of Cards has to be up there.
The Dollhouse.
A bunch of hyper-sexualized women held in coffins against their will in a state of childlike innocence. Intermittently, they have personalities downloaded into them, using computer technology, making them Alpha-powered super-assassins.
When one of them gets too woke, she is suppressed, coerced, and gaslit into buying back into the fascist agenda of the faceless corporation running the Dollhouse.
As someone who’s never seen this, this sounds like a good premise for something horribly dystopian. Unless the series isn’t about how terrible this is…
Yes, they wind it down.
spoiler
Most of the world is destroyed and they iced Helo (Tahmoh Penikett) for no good reason but shock.
And the good guys pull off a very Pyrrhic victory. Closing the Dollhouse before they figured out how to make scenario: techno-nightmare happen would have made the series shorter. But, I’m pretty sick of the “we can’t put the tech genie back in the bottle” defense. Under this ideal, every tech needs to grow to Godzilla size or fade into obsolescence.
Drawn Together. - _-
the amount of cringe i experience from watching that show should be examined in the NIH or MIT!
