Is it not possible to produce compelling and watchable shows about ordinary people, not cops or villains or superheroes, that illuminate real life while promoting decency, tolerance and even love?
I mean, there's The Good Place. That's about it that I can think of just now. Though they do go about "real life" in a fairly roundabout way. There was Crazy Ex-Girlfriend but that ended. But for every show like that, we get dozens about men in tights blowing things up with their fists, or bad guys with a glint in their eye, rehashing high school-level understanding of Nietzsche for the fiftyeleventh time. It's a tricky balance; I don't want art (for lack of a better word) to be preachy and peachy, but surely between all the series finding thousands of ways to forgive someone for being a horrible but entertaining person, perhaps spend at least a tenth of that energy on ways to move forward through the muck instead of just drilling deeper into it?
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Is it not possible to produce compelling and watchable shows about ordinary people, not cops or villains or superheroes, that illuminate real life while promoting decency, tolerance and even love?
I mean, there's The Good Place. That's about it that I can think of just now. Though they do go about "real life" in a fairly roundabout way. There was Crazy Ex-Girlfriend but that ended. But for every show like that, we get dozens about men in tights blowing things up with their fists, or bad guys with a glint in their eye, rehashing high school-level understanding of Nietzsche for the fiftyeleventh time. It's a tricky balance; I don't want art (for lack of a better word) to be preachy and peachy, but surely between all the series finding thousands of ways to forgive someone for being a horrible but entertaining person, perhaps spend at least a tenth of that energy on ways to move forward through the muck instead of just drilling deeper into it?