It'd be incredibly unrealistic to have them have any degree of success given the ease of determining their motive and potential targets, and the sheer amount of resources the police would undoubtedly throw at finding someone who was killing oligarchs.
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I'd watch this show.
Oh, right. A show. Of course.
Right, and that will happen because TV shows aren't produced by billionaire-owned media corporations.
Star Wars: Andor is made and produced by fucking Disney. Squid Games was produced by Netflix.
Never underestimate the ability of capitalism to commodify anything and everything, even the dissent of the system.
True, capitalism commodifies everything, but it always has a doublethink view of dissent and rebellion. They're okay as long as the bad guys are a clearly evil empire (as in Star Wars) but not if it's the US or conventional culture in general. I mean, Disney isn't gonna mek a series about the adventures of the Black Panthers unless it alreadty has an established swag market.
But Cops is currently on it's 37th season.
Wasn't that cancelled?
the show was later picked up by Fox Nation, a streaming service from Fox News Media, and the 33rd season premiered on October 1, 2021
Ah. On-brand for them.
well even if Cops went away, you have stuff like LivePD and any number of copaganda shows on every network
The rookie was the most blatant example for me and i was incredibly disappointed , because i like Nathan Fillion.
I heard it got less bootlicky later on but i never made it that far.
Try to make it on VEO3 and Google will come back saying it's against the TOS.
Make anything else on the exact same basis except sub out rich people for anybody else... allowed!
"evil rich people"
There's no such thing as an innocent billionaire
You're making a show about killing money men. Good luck convincing the money men to fund it. And that's how it works.
Otoh, making video is pretty cheap these days.
Neo Ranga is an old anime about how the Yakuza fund politicians. Guess what else the Yakuza fund? You could tell that anime had no budget.
Even if you did find some way to fund and produce it, what corporate media empire is going to allow it on their network where more than a handful of people would ever see it?
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~~Robin~~ Killin Hood
(Cuz he be killin' instead of robbin')
*Killian
Im sure it happens often or more than we think and its instantly covered up to avoid copycats, maybe ppl who already dlted themselves and their families off the internet
… as a TV show, right? Right?
I'd prefer a documentary series.
Not really a true crime guy, but
The Luigi Files: Part 1
Repeat after me, New Yorkers: I’ve never heard that name before. Is that a Tendo game?
Based on true events?
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I mean, I get it, I feel the same sometimes. It's just much better to strip them of their assets and dump em all on epstein island with a survival package including guide.
Let them learn how to survive for real instead. Much better punishment.
(I mean, look at Australia, those guys became pretty awesome. Not perfect, but hey.. We're all human.)
Weren't the prisoner in Australia "regular" criminals, though?
They already made one. His catchphrase was "You have failed this city".
He as straight as an Arrow
Or we could free Luigi, and get the real thing!
Current world record holder on the highscore
No I believe that title goes to Mao or Lenin
Single HVT ;)
Luigis Mansion: A TV show about a mansion filled with kidnapped billionaires. Sprinkle some inspiration from the Saw movies on top, and we've got a hit.
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Put it on Amazon Prime! With ads!
Lots of ads. More than YouTube's amount of ads.
Leverage was kinda like this but they didn't kill them
I honestly wouldn't. Not because I disagree with the concept, but because more on-point escapist media would just ensure that people will get their revolutionary fix without ever leaving the couch. We don't need that. We need people to be angry, to be fed up, to have no other escape than to fight for it.
Capitalism has done wonders at keeping us sedated by selling us our fantasies of change and better days. It's time we stopped taking those meds.
My only argument against this idea, which a part of me supports, is we need to start pushing forward our own propaganda against the billionaire class to get more people on board with the movement. And entertainment is an avenue for propaganda to achieve this.
I think entertainment is one of the poorest means of distribution, because, as it is now and in my opinion, entertainment exists in a state somewhere between not being taken seriously, and being taken seriously enough to pacify the subconscious.
On the other hand, populist means of distribution would be far more effective for this. Appeal to the average citizenry, make the message clear and simple, easily digestible in terms of complexity not wording, but frame it still within the context of reality.
As a concrete example, I'd offer stuff like House Of Cards, The Fall of The House of Usher, The Boys, and many, many other shows with a "calling out truths through metaphors" theme. All of these shows are on point as far as having the metaphors parallel life, but even so they are heavily misinterpreted at worst (see people being downright surprised that Homelander is supposed to be the bad guy), or consumed then forgotten at best.
We need to go beyond metaphors and tackle the Concrete, the what-is, as-is. Show the numbers, show concrete examples of how life is made worse by actual people, and call it out directly - as opposed to the luke-warm and abstract wording of news, that dilution of the truth to make it inoffensive enough as to be easily swallowed then excreted by readers, as the truth isn't the point of news anymore, it's getting more and more eyes on your webpage.
Edit: and it needs to be short. We don't want to keep people entertained on the couch, we want to deliver the blow, then let them fester alone and in silence, sitting with the truth in their lap.
Edit 2: maybe this'd offer a clearer example of what I mean. We (Romania) recently had our Presidentials and narrowly avoided electing a Fascist (George Simion). The reason why his campaign was that successful (and the reason why Trump's was as well, for that matter) was that he kept it simple. They had billboards posted across all major cities with his party name, his face, and a message saying "apartments for €30.000" (in the context of a one bedroom, ~50m² apartment now costing upwards of €100k in many larger cities). It was utter bullshit, as anyone who knows how basic economy works has said from the start and as Simion himself admitted on live television, but the message was clear and impactful enough to settle into people's minds.
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First 2 seasons of Arrow were like this. But yes I would watch the shit out of it. Make it a law and order style straight from the headlines and make the rich people resemble real life rich people.
Go all out and get Dick Wolf behind this. "Law and Order: Vigilante Justice" where the cops are all inept but there is a dedicated team of New Yorkers working together to bring justice to the streets of America.
Call it the Super Mario Super Show
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