If you could live in a house from any TV series across any genre, which one would you choose and why? Personally it’s all about the Victorian witch houses for me- many a tie between the house from Sabrina the Teenage Witch (sitcom version) or Halliwell Manor from Charmed. They both look so lived-in and cosy without seeming cluttered or hectic. Sabrina’s bedroom was so gorgeous - I’ve looked for that witch blanket on her chair for years.

Thoughts?

I love learning about history, cultures & spooky stories. I loved Ghost Adventures in the very beginning 20 years ago… So I came across a new show from Zak Bagans (with little hopes of it being very good, but no idea it would be so horribly tasteless.) This is hot fucking garbage for so many reasons way beyond the usual cringe of bad tv, but I’m just going to talk about what really bothered me to get it off my chest.

I didn’t even finish the episode of the Armero tragedy, but that’s the one I started.

(For context, this guy sends his poor nameless film crew out to the location of the Armero tragedy to “investigate” a town eradicated in 1985 due to a volcanic eruption that wiped out nearly 23,000 people because the government ignored all warnings & decided against costly evacuations. ((No, I actually didn’t learn any of that from this shit documentary, I had to Google it all myself because narration was so bad.))

The premise lies in this idea that the towns tragedy happened “due to a cUrSE” spoken by an old priest who was decapitated some 40 years before the eruption causing this disaster.

Very little effort was made to tie in a story of some paranormal BS “curse” causing this tragedy & it isn’t necessary. Reducing the real stories of absolutely horrific human suffering as cringy “shock value” just hurt my soul. It seemed so careless & disrespectful, especially to say the girl trapped in sludge for 60 hours eyes went black “because of CuRSe??” instead of the reality: she was hypothermic, crushed & died of exposure after 3 agonizing days because the rescue teams were not equipped to rescue her or anyone else really.

Maybe it could have been executed better, but the way it stands, tasteless. tacky. wack.

Anyway, this all really makes me miss Anthony Bourdain who really could have taught zak a thing or two. Super yikes. 👎

There's a lot of things that add to it. I've noticed shows tend to get bad much faster, like for example there are so many shows from the 90s and 2000s that would stay pretty good for like 7-8 seasons before getting a big dip in quality but now it feels like if season 1 is really good that season 2 is always much worse somehow. It's like the consistency is much lower than it used to be. It's gotten to the point where anytime a new show or movie is announced I just automatically assume it's going to be bad.

But that's not all, Ive also noticed a bunch of big budget TV shows hiring nobodies for the writers, sometimes even nepo babies of the showrunners family. Like for rings of power and the new upcoming Harry Potter TV series. Two extremely popular IPs yet they hire very inexperienced writers. I've noticed that a lot too for a lot more new TV shows where they hire writers that are completely new. I mean it's good that they are getting started but I would think they would have to work their way up instead of immediately being on giant projects. It feels like they do it just because it's cheaper to hire newbies than experienced writers.

I also feel like the writing in general just isn't as smart or cleverly written anymore. Nothing in recent memory that has made a cultural phenomenon that changes the game.

I also noticed a lot of the diversity feels way more forced nowadays. Like they just do it to please people. There's no real heart or soul anymore with it. There are many movies and shows in the past that follow POC and LGBTQ people and are written very well but I notice they just like to pander now instead of actually telling good stories with these characters. They make their diversity the main point of the character. I miss the way they used to write it like they actually cared and wanted it to be shown into the world instead of it just feeling obligary. (This is not talking about simply having people of color or LGBTQ people in media but how they are handled most of the time now)

I love movies and tv shows so much but this dip in quality is really making me worried for the future of media. Especially since most shows are now just gloried 8 hour movies instead of actual TV shows. I would love to have more TV budget shows with 13-22 episodes back. And I can't stand waiting 2-3 years for a season that only has 8 episodes and is practically guaranteed to be worse than the previous season.

I'm only making this out of worry for the future of tv. I hope we can bring back more quality TV. It seems much more rare these days for a show to be good and especially stay good throughout its run. (Also what happened to 8 season shows?)

I know that shows and their spinoffs have aired in different networks, but are there any other examples of a show and it's spinoff airing at the same time, but on different networks?

#The Franchise

Premise: Sam Mendes and Armando Iannuccci's comedy series focuses on the cast and crew who work on a superhero franchise movie.

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#The Penguin

Season 1 Episode 3: Bliss

I have tried, but I seem to be unable to figure this question out.

When did the last rerun episode of Hannah Montana air on the Disney channel?

I’m not asking when did the last episode of Hannah Montana premiere. I want to know what year or the exact date and time that Hannah Montana stopped rerunning on Disney Channel.

Please help. This has to be the best sub for this kind of question.

Googled but couldn’t find much.

In episode 5 for example (stellar performance from Cooper Koch), was any of his dialogue or the description of his experiences taken from the lawyer’s notes?

The long look he gave her at the end made me wonder if he was scanning her face to see if she believed him.

I read that the creator didn’t actually believe Erik and Lyle had a sexual relationship. So why is it in the show?

I was in my 20s during the trial on TV and didn’t watch much of it.

Just trying to ascertain how much of the show is a complete fabrication.

I'm watching Paramount Plus, to which we subscribe as a YouTube Premium Channel. We pay $11.97, in order to avoid commercials.

And we're getting commercials.

What's going on??

Years ago I would've sworn that Breaking Bad was more revered of the two despite being neck-and-neck, but nowadays it seems The Sopranos is the more preferred pick overall(?).

Or am I missing something? Otherwise they are both GOAT prestige TV shows in my book.

Mine is easily Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Run Away With Me” in Mr. Robot S4E10.

Was already one of my favorite pop songs of all time, but I never would have expected it to be used in my favorite show of all time (let alone it fitting so well). Perfect editing and the perfect vibe for the context of the scene.

Honorable mentions:

Any scene with Nena’s “Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann” in Dark.

Tommy James’ “Crystal Blue Persuasion” in Breaking Bad S5E8.

Has anyone else seen this? Its surprisingly funny. I think because they dont really know what it is and just decided to run with it anyway.

Have you seen it/Thoughts?

Edit: The new American version, Brits have been mad every since we made the office better than them 😂

(This is a totally light-hearted fun post)

l love my ability to just dissociate reality and really just embrace nonsense and get into tv shows.

Over time and as I’ve gotten older it’s been so annoying to realize this little detail has been ruining my immersion!

I’ve watched a few sitcoms, notably a few times in Parks and Rec, Good Place and The Mindy Project in which the scenes are clearly supposed to be in the fall and winter (I’m a huge fall fan but live in a hot city so I like seeing cold)

Seeing these characters have to do holiday themed episodes in places like nyc or Indianapolis wearing winter jackets and scarves, but CLEARLY seeing that the actors are in 60-75 LA set weather, lightly sweating is just so stupidly irritating to me ahahaa

Does anyone else have this or other things that are just like personal pet peeves that monetarily ruin the experience?