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    I adored superstore. I love how I think back of the show and nothing comes to mind because everything was painfully ordinary.

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    23 hours ago

    TV Broadcasters: “oh, so you want more shitty ‘reality TV’ then?”

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    24 hours ago

    MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE

    (Also please Disney don’t fuck up the sequel)

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    Atlanta, Black Mirror, Severance, Silo, The Terror: Infamy, Slow Horses, The Bear, Black Bird, Baby Reindeer, Station Eleven, Russian Doll. Most of what I’ve seen recently that was produced in the last few years has been primarily about people who are not wealthy or privileged.

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      Bob’s Burgers breathes class consciousness. There’s an episode where the kids are forced to volunteer through school, and the rich landlord makes no secret that he’s exploiting their free child labor to clean up his beach. The concept of collective bargaining is played with when the kids decide they don’t want to do that work for free. That episode also includes the lesson that the rich will absolutely use you and screw you over to further their own desires.

      The rich landlord is frequently shown dicking around as if the people around him are playthings. In another episode, his tenants decide to hold a rent strike. The landlord uses classic divide and conquer strategy to turn the other tenants against Bob, the leader of the strike, via a water balloon contest (it makes sense in context.)

      That’s not even touching the realistic struggles that Bob, Linda, and their family have to live with day-to-day. Despite characters sometimes being, well, completely wackadoo, it’s probably the most relatable animated show I know of.

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        Well put and I agree, for that same reason I really didn’t like the movie though. Its message is basically summed up as “you can commit murder but only if you’re rich enough.”

        The brothers should have drowned in that submarine is all I’m sayin

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          The message should be a wake up call then. It’s saying “Look at the reality we live in - this shit actually happens”.

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      But not the kkk wizards. And if so, be Rick and Morty chopping them into little pieces like the trash they are.

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      im currently watching the orville, its perfect to just forget everything and be entertained in on a silly level

      can recommend

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        Ooh that sounds perfect right now. Lost my pup recently and really need just some good distraction. I’ll check that out today, thank you! And with that username, I’m very excited by your suggestion :)

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          my families dog is also getting old… idk this might hit me the hardest, I cant imagine how you feel rn - my condolences.

          Arrakis… yeah, I gotta watch Dune too :D Haven’t yet. The name is originating from the kyrillic translation since peanut is such widespread nickname, I adapted it like that :D “Arachis hypogaea” is also the bontanic term for example

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            Thanks, yeah it’s a tough journey. I was thankfully able to spend a lot of time with her up to the end and she was very comfortable and I can say she had a good life so I am okay with that. Our fur babies are truly something special and the time we get with them is just incredible.

            Ahh I see that now in the name hah, TIL! I dig it! Check Dune, it’s phenomenal

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    I read some article the other day, how they had noticed a heavy attempt, by Hollywood, to glamorise and humanise ultra rich, like Yellowstone. Is that so we just sit back and shut up and let the billionaires be. Fk that.

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    The biggest reason I dropped Succession during first season. I have no interest in watching some rich fucks and on top of that there is not one likable character in that show.

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      You missed the point of the show, they are all unlikable for a reason, and contrary to what you might think, none of them come out on top the way they wanted to. It’s a great show that highlights their petty, callous, empty little lives

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    Shameless: “am I a fucking joke to you?”

    Since the wealthy fund the shit, anything to do with the commoner is portrayed as trashy, just above literal refuse with regard to usefulness, while the wealthy are portrayed as the righteous and just, with money to fix all the problems they face and any moral failings related to them is the result of something outside their wealth.

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    New Taskmaster series just dropped with Jason Mantzoukas for us plebs.