My parents enjoy Taylor Sheridan written shows like Landmare (I think it's called) and Yellowstone.
I have a strict rule. If it's modern, it can't be good.
Even just the acting style is not what I like and is just bad compared to 90s and earlier, so even if you had zero modern values, the feel of media sucks now.
But that aside, they were watching Landmare the other night and I heard some woman character on there mention something about pronouns.
Now I've seen some clips from these types of shows, like Landmare. He is against wokeness, so he'll have the main character mock that mindset.
Ok, that's better than a woke show, I'll grant you that.
But you know what's even better than that?
shows like Columbo or Andy Griffith Show. I love that no matter how many episodes of Columbo I watch, I will never run into the risk of hearing the word "pronoun" ever come out of the speakers.
To me, you can't make a truly non-woke show nowadays. Because it would take balls of steel to merely make an apolitical show like Columbo or Andy Griffith show (yes they may have subtle moments, there's a few feminist moments in Andy Griffith show, for instance, but it's balanced out with women looking foolish often as well in their feminist pursuits....it's a relative scale and it's barely a factor)
If you made a show that was exactly like Columbo or Andy Griffith show
you'd have
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Almost entirely white cast
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Women would act like how women were portrayed (and more accurately really are) in the 1960s and 70s. ie; irrational, emotional prone.
They simply would not write women the way a typical Columbo or Andy Griffith show episode would write women.
The short version aka the point of this rant is that I find an anti-woke modern show barely preferable to a woke modern show. They're both presenting you with wokeness, it's just the Taylor Sheridan ones mock wokeness.
I'd rather not see or be reminded of ANY wokeness, and not see any modern type characters, which is why any TV or movie I watch is typically from the 90s or earlier. If you were to make just an apolitical Columbo episode, you'd be blackballed from Hollywood just based on the racial demographics of the cast, background characters, etc and how women are portrayed.
Everything about this comment is gold, and nails EXACTLY how I feel about today's media landscape.
This in particular...
Is so true.
I'm reminded of the first season of The Nasty Boys or Soldier Of Fortune Inc, which were actually about the things they were doing, and not just the interpersonal drama of the people involved. The Nasty Boys' pilot movie is still some of the best TV ever made, right up there with the original pilot for Miami Vice and the short-lived Lightning Force.
This is another thing that peeves me off so much.
There are exactly ZERO shows out there where a character admonishes another for being a faggot. It's also starting to bleed into some Asian media as well.
I recently watched a Korean action-thriller, and the main character's daughter turned out to be a faggot, and instead of bringing up the realities of that lifestyle, the fact she will end her lineage, or her abject disapproval, the mother eventually comes around to accepting it.
It's complete and utter tosh.