/tv/ - Movies and Television★

>twink peaks = great

Yeah that's where you lost me

Stargate and Lexx are kino tbh

>>350082 (OP)
BCS is just as good as BB.

>>350082 (OP)
X-files and Game of Thrones are also peak reddit. X-files is incredibly inconsistent, with most episodes being jewish tripe and GoT just got worse every season. Say what you will about Vince Gilligan but he's much better at maintaining quality, both in BB and BCS.
As for Twin Peaks pt2, it's just Lynch doing Lynch stuff, if you dislike his weirder movies I'm sure you hated it, but his more out there stuff like Inland Empire is always gonna be very divisive.

>>350082 (OP)
Actual 1990-1991 Twin Peaks was great. The 2017 show sucked ass.

>>350086
you are a newfaggot who was not there in the GOT threads. You wouldn't know Reddit if it bit you on the ass.
Lynch sucks dick and I am glad he is dead. S to spit.

>>350086
>x files is jooish
BCS is shit

Succession

By Armond White

How Pauline Kael predicted HBO's failed media satire.

In "After Innocence," the 1973 essay that is Pauline Kael's most political piece of writing, she reported, "The Watergate hearings have overshadowed the movies." She realized that the year's films (the second-best year of a great cinema decade) had less impact than the passing political parade. Kael knew that those hearings to besmirch a president by investigating corruption were unprecedented. She saw them as the confirmation that Vietnam and civil-rights conflicts had overtaken the American spirit through protests and media-disseminated dissent.

"You could feel it," Kael said of the nationwide discontent. Her precise assessment of anti-Nixon cynicism in '70s media seems almost prophetic of today's anxiety. She pointed out

the convictionless atmosphere, the absence of shared values, the brutalities taken for granted, the glorification of loser-heroes . . . the harshness of the attitudes, the abrasiveness that made you wince - until, after years of it, maybe you stopped wincing. It had become normal.

The normalization of cynicism explains how, 50 years later, Americans could tolerate the January 6 show trials. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy mandated release of exculpatory videotapes hidden and withheld by the J6 kangaroo court, proving that politicians and the media had deliberately misled the public. Yet the normalization of cynicism - key to the leftist media's refusal to repent - still overwhelms the culture. How do we regain optimism after having been so thoroughly betrayed? Not even the truth, then, can easily restore trust.

This is why the overrated HBO series Succession is so appalling. It caters to disillusionment. Our deceitful media-industry complex has laid the groundwork for the cynicism and nihilism that overpower our culture, laws, and institutions.

The makers of Succession - British writer Jesse Armstrong and producers Adam McKay and Frank Rich - specialize in exactly the elitist disdain they pretend to satirize. The show's premise - exposing the internecine conflicts of family-owned media conglomerate Waystar RoyCo - actually celebrates the very nastiness that neoliberals claim to abhor. This roman à clef series begins with the patriarch of the Roy clan, Logan (Brian Cox), urinating on a carpet (evoking The Big Lebowski, befouling us). He suggests Rupert Murdoch and family, putative conservatives thinly disguised to benefit the show-runners' partisan enmity.

But the show's real source is the low-grade titillation of Fox's hot-mess black series Empire. Succession appropriates the antics of Lee Daniels's sudser (which unleashed hoaxster Jussie Smollett), but it upgrades the "ratchet" behavior to wealthy whites for a combination of envy and disdain.

Media-savvy Armstrong, McKay, and Rich play out their own Trump Derangement Syndrome (Succession first aired the second year of Trump's presidency), dramatizing the exasperation of the liberal corporate media. An honest show would center on the actual behind-the-scene conflicts of the angry snowflakes at leftist news networks. Instead, through true projection, Armstrong, McKay, and Rich accuse their ideological opponents.

Succession daren't expose the bias secreted by network owners, presidents, and news directors, as revealed when former Nightline and 20/20 producer James Goldston colluded with the J6 committee to turn national politics into a TV drama disguised as political news. But that treachery is made to seem alluring through miscreant characterizations that media folk can disavow.

The political animals behind Succession - respectively, Armstrong, from the gutters of Fleet Street pseuds who concocted The Death of Stalin; McKay, from the SNL-Hollywood axis of progressive snark; and Rich, from the New York Times editorial board and the sitcom Veep - put their lived experience to dubious use on this "dramedy." But they're unreliable sources for media critique. Gaslighting is their modus operandi. So is intellectual pretense - that same HBO formula of middlebrow sophistication that ruined The Sopranos. Succession's dialogue is painfully arch, as when the Latin motto In Veritate Triumpho (I triumph in the truth) on a coat of arms is variously misinterpreted as "This wine is triumphant" and "Your vagina trumpets." A large part of the show's acclaim derives from the log-rolling nature of politicized media congratulating its own snark - specifically Armstrong, McKay, and Rich's attacking Fox while ignoring the perfidies of MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS.

The show orients TV-watchers to the venality of media folk who are proxies for their vile political confreres - as in a Roy scion (Jeremy Strong) staging his own Chappaquiddick. Our political and ethical disillusionment never ends.

Before any of the political pundits of the time, Kael perceived that the Watergate hearings, which stemmed from Woodward and Bernstein's mission at the Washington Post, corrupted journalistic instinct, and that self-righteousness had turned the entire news profession into a lynch mob. Even back then, Kael described the "genteel, condescending press" and "Eastern establishment prudery." She was good at sussing out institutional hypocrisies, from Hollywood's post-WWII communist grandstanding to feminist vanity. "After Innocence" anticipates how Succession amplifies the echo-chamber phenomenon of groupthink. And fawning reviews turn that into cultural consensus.

Kael concluded her classic analysis with a review of the Jeff Bridges-Lamont Johnson film The Last American Hero, a modest example of Watergate-era Americana. She warned, "We may never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us." And now we are stuck with the decidedly immodest, corrupt Succession.

The ruthless family-business competitors of Succession are no different from the monsters in Game of Thrones; this time it's warfare among the insufferable, beastly pundit class. We have inherited the disillusionment and dishonesty started a half century ago and that media and its audiences can't get out of. Succession mirrors our self-destruction.

>>350092
dumb nigger

>>350082 (OP)
Rich piana was right.

>>350089
You mean the GoT threads on cuckchan? No idea why you think that retards on an imageboard making fun of a show is some kind of mark of quality, but I guess that's what Reddit does to your brain.
>lynch disrespecter
Guess I was right in my analysis on why the OP hated Twin Peaks pt2.

>>350107
We had threads on 8chan, you stupid fucking 4cuck zoomer faggot imbecile.

>>350108
Yeah for the later seasons, when the show already turned to shit.
The show is from 2011, but since you're reddit generation I guess you where'nt born yet.

>>350109
>heh da show from 2011
We had the threads since the beginning in 2013. So for most of the shows life, we were on 8chan watching it. You are a newfaggot retard so you want to focus on the two years of cuckchan.
Fuck you, you fucking faggot.

>>350110
>2013
>got season 3
>quality
lol reddit exposing itself

>>350110
>We
Not me but all of you that did (including the maisiefag) were all faggots for liking the show

Most of BCS was top-tier, but the final season was trash.

>>350123
shit tv show for retards.

>>350123
great tv show for savants.

>>350123
Why does it seem like everybody says this about every prestige show?

Young Sheldon was the vest show of the past 15 years and it's not even close

>>350130
Reddit show for pseud families.

>>350082 (OP)
>Twin Peaks is like the book of Genesis of Redditry
Not even close.

>>350132
Is it really that bad? I never watched it because I always see people saying that about it.

>>350130
>vest show

what does this even mean you illiterate nigger

>>350138
Look at your keyboard. Notice how the B key neighbors the V? It's called a typo. Don't be an autistic nigger giving anons shit for typos.

>>350133
It's one of those love it or hate it movies. I didn't like it very much. It's full of that half-ironic randomness redditors seem to love.
>"Dude the hero is a scientist and a heart surgeon and a rock star and a samurai! Isn't that awesomeness????"
But it may be worth checking out if you're in the mood for something off the wall made with a lot of passion.

I was watching Dexter again recently, obviously the later seasons go to shit but I always noticed that there's a lot of groundwork lade that is pseudo-cuckshit in the first season.
>Dexter being the stepfather
I know in his head he does it because he was a foster kid and Rita is as fucked in the head as him, in the books he actually grooms his two stepkids into being killers like Harry groomed him. Its also another part of his mask in the book but it shows a lot less here.

>Doakes sheeeit where the white women at within the first two episodes
Need I say anything else, also the bitchy Hispanic women constantly trying to fuck Dexter. Also Doakes being the sterotypical ex-military nigger who is somewhat less like a nigger and mostly lives among whitey, a classic sterotype used to normalize blacks in white society that I've seen in so much propaganda. It reminds me of the Principle who attempts to help Derek in American History X or the sympathetic black prisoner. Last I checked niggers wanted to rob and kill me for simply being white. Don't think they will show any sign or glimpse of solidarity or humanity to a fucking skinhead.

Its fun seeing Dexter butcher the scum of society but you'd think he would be more redpilled at some point and find out the solution is destroying the current society from the ground up if he wants to end most criminals from having reign on the earth. Its why I don't respect any fucking cops in large cities in Amerimuttland, even the ones who join thinking they can do good. At some point your gonna find out just how fucking stupid muh laws and muh human rights are when niggers don't care and jewish lawyers get them off every five fucking seconds, I'm sure Derek learned things the hard way when he got blamed for a retarded Fent addicts death and half of America was burned down in his name. There is a reason faggots like Roy Moore hate vigilantes and super heroes because ultimately they are a concept that is pure right wing anarchy at their purest point. Dexter fits the description along with Bane of the worst nightmares of (((urbanites))) along with the government system of Starship Troopers which apparently equals fascism because you actually have to be a military hardass to be able to vote.

>>350138
No meed to spellcheck low effort shitposts

>>350123
I found BCS to be boring

Would you jerk off animals daily for $10,000 a month?

>>350147
Better than BCS tbh

>>350082 (OP)
>>350086

>>350089
>>350090
t. obtuse faggots
Go duck your mothers and your fathers

>>350170
I love coon dick and I have bad taste for everything.

the wire is only kinda refreshing because they make all the cops look lazy and they only care about their careers it's kinda the only way it's held up as time has gone on because most of whats made these days even with the same actors is basically ted lasso feel good or stuff with no redemmable value beyond being depressing

>>350158
basado

>>350173
nuzach was milo all along gahollio

your master milo was nuzach

whats the deal with the .space board being down ?

sweeping hard for ppp and andy ?

>>350161
>trying too hard: the post

Subtlety is key in this job, nuzach. You can do it, we believe in you.