Man I want to say there's great TV Shows right now but I just remembered the most recent ones I was engrossed by:
Mad Men
True Detective Season 1
Twin Peaks: The Return
The latter two came out nearly 5 years ago, the 3rd one is sincerly only for fans of David Lynch.
I really can't understand why we've fallen so hard from the "Golden Age of Television." The Sopranos was written almost exclusively by Hollywood liberals, it has many feminist themes and portrays "toxic masculinity." It wasn't shy about knocking the Bush Administration. But it wasn't shoving politics down your throat. It wasn't a full blown polemic against society or a political belief. It was just well written entertainment.
The problem is organizational. I can say from the inside just how insipid it all is. You have a writer who might be a bit of a lefty, but that's fine because they're pretty normal despite that. They get hired into Hollywood and boom money, fame, etc, etc. They have kids, who are also lefties and get hired because Hollywood is highly nepotistic, and their already primed to this BS because of the creative writing degree they took in college or whatever else meme tier degree they took. They replace the older crews/producers/runners/writers who every 5 to 10 years turn over with retirement, and what you get is a truly woke echo chamber that gate keeps itself. Echo chambers create extreme views of certain policies, and so since it's in vogue in Hollywood to be woke, it's literally who can swing their dick the widest. Same with most creative industries that allow these SJW types to infest their companies.
Same way academia has gotten progressively worse over time. My favorite professors in University were the older generation who were more based in my opinion than the fresh out of university softies I got stuck with in my other electives.
Nothing short of being a Trojan horse (pretending to be left or apolitical) seeking alternative means of production, or waiting for the money to drop out of the bottom the industry. (Not long considering Oscar and Hollywood viewing figures.) Is an option for truly right wing mindset people in the creative industry.
I know quite a few people of the Trojan horse type, myself included who are right wingers or centrist politically, but write this shit because it's what the industry is paying top dollar for. Sad fact of life, the producers want this woke shit and it's what gets the greenlight, even if the actual writers don't give a fuck about it. That's why you get some shows that the woke element or token characters are just lazy additions, the writer had added it in because that's what sells the script not because they actually give a shit. And the insipid part about it, is you don't write it, you don't sell it, you don't work, you don't eat.
I want to claim this is a parody but I know instinctively that it is not.
I was incredulous as well. When I first picked it up and checked the first page I thought the copy editor was drunk or something, then the foreword gave it all away. Feminist struggles of a African immigrant in the UK who faces institutional racism, while shifting from meaningless relationship to relationship. Sounded like a real nugget of shit.
Really revealing why said friend is a proto-feminist brainlet sometimes when this is the literature she reads. Every now and again I produce a few counter points to disillusion her leftist narratives, and I've made some progress in that regard, but it's hard when you see the trash they read in their free time.
