Movies & TV

we are only half paying attention to your art because:

its shitty.

you work us to the bone and expect us to drop hours of undivided attention on your slop.

its shitty, in a self-fulfilling, vicious-cycley way.

in amerikkka they spend billions of dollars on tv that is intended for the subtoddler attention spans of adults instead of just letting people make art

slop for the slop god

Micro genres for leaving on in the background so you can trick yourself into thinking you aren't completely alone

Netflix should stop having individualized shows and just become a continuous stream of incoherent AI-generated epic one-liner slop you can tune into 24/7

Walter White sneaking around inside Jesse’s apartment while he sleeps. “I’m watching Jane choke on her vomit.”

I mean its streaming, if they miss something they can go back 10 seconds and actually look at the screen

In the old days shows like that went on the radio and would have ads for soap cause they were aimed at housewives doing cleaning.

Also if you want to make TV shows that can be watched without needing to look at the screen, consider the following:

God I love capitalism

As a hearing impaired individual I'd appreciate it more if the the subtitles matched the dialogue than the characters announcing what they're doing.

For people without hearing issues, some of us use closed captions because soft voices or voices with certain pitches can be difficult to hear. Captions help people like me not miss stuff. But it's weird when you kinda naturally read along and it's not matching what bits you can hear.

I get translating between languages and having differences between captions and voices because the caption person translated the transcript separately. English to English there's no excuse other than they think deaf people won't notice.. which is kinda fucked.

I have to admit, a while ago I was starting a new Minecraft game and didn't have anything great to put on the other monitor so I started putting the Good Place in there and not paying much attention to it, because I assumed it was a slop show. Once I realized it actually was a decent show with an interesting premise I felt guilty so I stopped doing that, finished the show normally, and went back to putting Youtube on my second monitor like God intended.

Why is it that media is now expected to explicitly cater to the apathetic? If you care about it then perhaps actually pay attention to it.

Lower Decks legit has some of the tightest comedy writing outside of classic Simpsons/Futurama. I do wish there were more episodes and they were all a longer cause it always felt like it needed some breathing room, but not cause short attention span, cause I like my shows and movies on the slower side, I like extra time for little inconsequential to the plot character bits, I like a good filler episode, I like a bad filler episode. Ideally I'd like a standard for now 10 episodes and then also 5 other episodes thar they're given less time and budget for but also without the same pressure as network shows had for it, but a little bit of work with what you've got writing is something I miss. We wouldn't have court room episodes of trek without the budget concerns and we wouldn't have Yesterday's Enterprise if the full writing staff wasn't scrambling to get something on air that then turned out brilliant. I think the mentality can be simulated instead of actual brutal crunch. There's a bunch of ways to run a show to make it work

mainstream execs always stealing the best tricks from porn. for real tho, u don't wanna miss what's going on while ur making ur alfredo

is this why some people have watched the entirety of The Office like 12 times

Don't you mean "I'm scowling at the camera and say 'I don't want to live on this planet anymore'"?

Reminds me one day a guy told me Ubisoft execs wanted their games to replace TV so they needed to be playable with just one hand so people can eat while playing

This is so sad :(

pitching my new show about funny sound effect compilations to Netflix asap

It's me. I put shows on in the background when I'm doing something else.