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Another callout post from Zack, this time about
The Penguin. So at this point, Zack's recommendation on a TV show or movie means it's something I'm probably going to want to skip. Of course, the DC branding on
The Penguin made me want to skip it in the first place, whereas if it had been a simple gangster show I'd have been more likely to give it a watch. It's funny how that works, I think it's because I won't be able to take it seriously as a gangster show if it's about DC's Oswald(a) Cobblepot. I know that Batman comics are more insulated from DCs overall faggotry than their other comics, but I can't help but think everything from DC is gay now, in both senses of the word. It's not like Batman extended universe comics never have any camp gay or wine aunt trash in them (which Zack often pointed out in his videos).
Of course aside from DC comics, which are obviously terrible. DC has had a bunch of TV shows that tarnished the brand on The CW channel. It got so bad that the CW went through a radical restructuring where it eliminated its original scripted programming after it was sold to Nexstar. Wikipedia's writeup here is actually not bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_CW
Almost all of Zack's evidence in his "TV is getting better" video is because the CW has basically ceased to exist as an original TV production company, so the terrible CW shows that used to pollute the airwaves and the Internet are no longer being made:
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Zack basically created a strawman of "The Birthday Party Clowns" where they want to heal the TV and Movie industry by bankrupting all the bad studios pushing slop. However, while that strawman is something he basically made up, he has proven the strawman's point by pointing out that the elimination of The CW as a producer of original scripted content has in fact improved television. Now if only we could destroy Disney+ too.