but on a more practical level, i don't understand why it works
like is it just that people really do want to indulge their absolute worst impulses in tv form?
what exactly is supposed to be enjoyable about watching show after show where everyone is a cruel and selfish monster to everyone around them?
even my cold, cynical heart can't bring myself to watch the rich and powerful try to convince us that everyone is like them and that decency and kindness are weaknesses to be punished
also how the fuck is the Bear a "comedy"? has the bar really lowered this far?
some years ago I worked a night shift job at a small biodiesel factory near Seattle. it was a nasty slippery dangerous job but still the best one I'd had in a while so I tried to do my best. it was tough, though, when my coworkers would insist on filling the control room with awful nasty prestige TV shows. I desperately wanted to watch Sailor Moon or something FUN and colorful to keep up my spirits but nope, they wanted to watch prestige TV garbage.
this was the worst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_(TV_series)
Hugh Laurie playing yet another unethical shitbag doctor, a "forensic neuropsychiatrist", except this show gets right into how he's doing crimes and vigilante work and there's not much doctoring as I recall. The worldview of the show is that there's secret supervillains lurking everywhere and the only way to get 'em is doing crimes I guess.
Why would you want to watch this at three in the morning in a dimly lit factory full of shadows and strange noises, I don't know. I tried to counter with my own music but bleh
~Chara
