People don’t want transcendent art. They just want nice things that make them feel better avout their alienation under capital.

So pretty but empty simple movies that make you feel good and reinforce the satus quo are preferable to movies that make you spend the last bit of energy you have making you feel things and think.

So you will have infinite marvel movies and new and intresting projects that get canceled when they stop being novel

:yea: Bright 2 :deeper-sadness:

They use completion rate. If a bunch of people start watching a show but don’t finish it, it gets canned.

i can’t figure how any decisions are made and it seems like most of the stuff i am completely enchanted by is stuff that other people find stupid or pointless.

there is so much absolutely formulaic, anodyne pablum that goes on for so many seasons, but many shows i find intriguing never get a second season to just wrap things up neatly. it’s a fine line though, sometimes a show has a great little 1-3 season set of arcs, but then it gets picked up for many more and has to find some way to make infinite sausage… which is disappointing. i am far more likely to give the “Limited Series” a chance. there are so many damn options though, compared to the days of cable and being locked into live TV schedules.

some times i think we are in a golden age of the series as an art form and other times i think we are in that plastic trash gyre in the pacific, hallucinating from ingesting too much sea water and microplastics.

i also do not understand the affection and interest people have for true crime documentaries. that’s like Real Housewives of Buffalo tier TV. and fucking A, it seems like it’s like 30% of new content.