Movies & TV

Say what you will about our old friend UlyssesT, but he was mostly right about modern "Prestige TV"

TV that is desperate to prove that it's mature and for adults, but can't actually write about anything intelligent because execs think viewers are too dumb for that. So now all they have left is trauma bombarding. It's the 'Highbrow' equivalent of those YouTube thumbnails that try to get your attention by showing something gross or violent.

It's wild that people complain that TV is too inoffensive these days when even only 20 years ago none of this would have passed the censors.

The director is a transphobe apparently too

I don't understand the appeal of the show. It felt like it was making fun of rich people, but then there wasnt any cathartic moment where they got served their dues.

Idk maybe I'm too socialist brained now

The first season at least seemed like it was trying to comment on the psychological impact of making a living by catering to the whims of crazy rich people, while the last episode of this season was "Rich people are basically okay and things will work out for them, also it's not like you'd be any better, you dumb prole."

The one good thing about the show is that all of the rich people are very different and all of them are very unlikeable. The workers are shown to be the only good people

Prestige slop. Elevated slop

The season was OK, the scenes you talked about wasn't surprised because it had some ground up since the begging, but how it affected the characters after was pretty meh.

The end of the season was disappointing at best.

White lotus buts its about anti-Qing China religious fanatics

I've gone retvrn mode with TV and have just been watching either trek or stuff like Mcguyver and Murder She Wrote. Prestige is not the model to follow the trash should be the standard and the prestige should have a higher standard. I just wanna see mysteries get solved by a writer or mysteries get solved by the most competent man ever to live and the show to be a year round full time job for everyone so they get burnt out and do some really half assed episodes pretty often. TV shows should be kinda low effort a lot of rhe times shit got a budget just cause it filled a weird time slot and did okay enough to not mess with it. Watching something where it's kinds clear thsr people are just there for a check fucking rules.

tbh I fell asleep every time I tried to watch it. It just didn't really interest me.

I felt weird misanthropy vibe from the show (weird as in i can't point a finger on what gives the vibe), and couldn't finish season 2

The creator got cancelled for being extremely transphobic.

I watched the finale last night and felt a resounding "oh that was predictable".

Everything that was wrapped up in the final episode was telegraphed so hard in earlier episodes that I pretty much figured out how things were going to end by episode 4.

Ewww