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first spoiler is a CW and spoiler so yea

spoilerCW: incest

now the details

spoilerMy gf watched is and just had to tell me about the 18 year old jerking off his older brother while the 18 year old had sex. My gf really seemed to think that was a cool part of the story. uhhhhhhhhhh

I'd rather leave this earthly plane than watch that shock value shit, good god. Which is a shame cause i love Walton Goggins.

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[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The director is a transphobe apparently too

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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 marx-doomer

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

but then there wasnt any cathartic moment where they got served their dues

Why would you want your cathartic moments to be fictional

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

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."

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

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

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

Prestige slop. Elevated slop

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

cw: porn and worseIt's extra weird how incest is everywhere in porn. I just assume, with zero evidence, that people are more OK with it and it's being normalised. That by itself isn't as terrible as the potential abuse that it may be leading to.

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was some article about it awhile ago, but apparently the one demo that still pays for porn (well, mainstream porn anyway) is into incest, which in turn means the incest stuff tends to have better production value meaning people who aren't into incest watch it too (for free usually) cuz it usually has hotter performers in it. Also I think some of it is just cultural inertia now, incest stuff was popular for a bit and it got meme-ified. I suspect a lot of it is tongue-and-cheek at this point.

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I find the alienation and atomization angle interesting too. That average americans are so insular, that there is so little social interaction in most people's daily lives, that "porn scenarios" are too far outside the lived experience of porn watchers.

If you're a young man who has a WFH tech job and does nothing but play video games in your free time, you don't meet women anywhere. If you are under 25 you probably cannot afford to live on your own. The only women you have any interaction with at all are female members of your household. So these incest and pseudo incest videos end up being the only ones that a large number of ~~men~~ the type of people most likely to pay for porn can relate to.

Because they're popular with the kind of people who actually pay for porn, they end up being the most common videos filmed and produced, so they end up being the most likely to be found on free sites.

Edit: NoT aLl MeN

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

White lotus buts its about anti-Qing China religious fanatics

[–] TheDeed@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

White Lotus: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

The end of the season was disappointing at best.

It was kinda the point I guess? They telegraphed it pretty hard.

They managed to seem preachy about 'accept there is no resolution' while doing the most basic predictable resolution of the season, and all while leaving enough hanging to string along another weak season or more. I was really hoping the season was going somewhere interesting from the first episode, but they barely did anything through all these episodes. Really wasted some good acting talent too.

Each season has been worse than the last, but the hype continues.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Murder She Wrote is such a well produced show for how slop the plot is sometimes.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

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

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

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 shrug-outta-hecks

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

TitleWhat an ass pull with all the fake-out deaths for the rich family. It was also super predictable that they were going to do this, but it actually made me angry the way they did it. I just wanted a happy ending for Gaitok and they even fucked that up.