I sometimes catch bits of my wife’s TV shows when she watches and it seems like, quite apart from the ideological capture, the other thing all shows do now is write the characters as if they know they’re in a show and think it’s funny, or at least that they’re analyzing their own fictional life in terms of TV shows/movies. “Hey girl, I bought you flowers! Haha, so cliche, right? Total romcom move, I know!” Just what you’d get from writers who have no life experience besides watching shows, and who analyze their own lives in terms of shows.

So they could wipe away all ideology from TV right now and I’d still be unwilling to watch. Maybe the writer’s strike will backfire when Hollywood finds replacements who can write real human characters.

I sometimes catch bits of my wife’s TV shows when she watches and it seems like, quite apart from the ideological capture, the other thing all shows do now is write the characters as if they know they’re in a show and think it’s funny, or at least that they’re analyzing their own fictional life in terms of TV shows/movies. “Hey girl, I bought you flowers! Haha, so cliche, right? Total romcom move, I know!” Just what you’d get from writers who have no life experience but watching shows, and who analyze their own lives in terms of shows.

So they could wipe away all ideology from TV right now and I’d still be unwilling to watch. Maybe the writer’s strike will backfire when Hollywood finds replacements who can write real human characters.