01-15-2020, 07:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-15-2020, 07:49 AM by Remy Renault.)
"Pop culture" always strikes me as low hanging fruit in these types of discussions as if it's "all the same s**t", regardless of whether it's Disney-produced movies or Vince Gilligan-produced television shows. You can't make much intellectual headway if you're unwilling to dissect these cultural products on a case-by-case basis. I'm not suggesting Breaking Bad is beyond reproach, but "movies, television shows, and video games are turning adolescent brains to mush" is really just this era's version of "rock music is a message from the devil". People once had similar attitudes about Hitchcock movies. Go figure. And My Darling Clementine once used to be merely a 'campy Western'.
How is modern-day "prestige TV" so much worse than stuff like The Godfather or Taxi Driver, movies which people past a certain age might suggest were "real movies unlike the nonsense we have today"?
Not every cultural product needs to be the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or Anna Karenina for its mere existence to be justified.
How is modern-day "prestige TV" so much worse than stuff like The Godfather or Taxi Driver, movies which people past a certain age might suggest were "real movies unlike the nonsense we have today"?
Not every cultural product needs to be the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or Anna Karenina for its mere existence to be justified.