I’m currently watching Babylon 5 on HBO Max and I can’t believe there are no new HBO shows I care to watch. I can remember a time I used to watch everything on that channel. I’m sure they were always left, but they did seem to care about entertainment. Luckily they have a lot of older stuff. I pretty much don’t watch anything after 2014 with a few exceptions but you can definitely see how TDS affected the entertainment industry
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If you look at it another way The Wire shows the effects of broken families and the failures of government
Well, let's give my thoughts a little shake.
S1 is a typical cops vs drug dealers story
S2 is a class struggle, unions good, corporations bad story, without mentioning unions shot themselves with unreasonable demands and uncompetitiveness
S3 is a ridiculous legalize drugs and utopia will happen subplot, and a resolution to S1
S4 is a plight of city schools story, teachers good, government didn't give them enough money, without mentioning every single school political problem on the map is literally some teachers union bs. Baltimore, where the show is based in, is supposed to receive frggin BILLIONS of dollars a year in feddy funding for everything, trust me, it's not the lack of funding that's killing you, it's the corruption.
S5 is a decline of journalism story, with a hack journo writing made up stories and an angel editor telling him off for it. I guess we can forgive the show for being made before the age of clickbait, but it's not because of singular bad apples journalism is dead, I struggle to find
fivethree journalists in the country worth reading.I like the show, I think it's well written. I don't agree with it's politics, and if it had been more heavy-handed I would have dropped it in a heartbeat.
Oh I totally agree. If it came out now it would be much worse.
Check out Bosch.
68 episodes. 8.5/10 average rating from 52,000 iMDb viewers.
But Zero Emmy wins. Just 1 Emmy nomination (for Opening Titles).
This tells you the show is not your typical SJW bullshit.
Bosch has been mostly great, but it was infected with Wokeness the last season, when they felt the need to throw in a pointless subplot where a group of incel police officers (yes, they actually call them incels) start a harassment campaign against the lesbian lieutenant. It almost felt like the "go home, gamer girl" episode of Law & Order SVU.
I'm kind of glad this is the last season, so it won't keep getting worse.
Thanks for alerting me. I just started watching Bosch for the first time. I really enjoyed Seasons 1-3. I am currently on Season 4 and SJW infection has already begun. Some filthy-rich Anti-Police Civil Rights Attorney is murdered and everyone is pointing at those "Angry Bad Cops" he has sued in the past. Then we have these Leftist Protesters screaming everywhere: "No Justice. No Peace!" (Yawn) It feels like I am watching CNN.
I just read that the same Producers and Actors are working on Bosch spin-off series for IMDbTV. We will see how that goes.