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2024-03-03 -Great Cultural Revolution

Why Old TV Shows Are Beating Hollywood's Billion Dollar DEI Machine

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Go back and watch any Playhouse 90 episodes and tell me what they serve up now is "entertainment."

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-03 07:01|| 2024-03-03 07:01|| Front Page Top

#2 FWIW - and take this as you will - my wife, The Fair Melissa, wanted to watch both Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte, and being a good husband I concurred.

From a purely historical viewpoint...it actually wasn't that bad; I've seen far, far worse with far more money spent. It got the broad stokes right, and for me that's pretty much all I care about.

The good news though is that as far as I could tell, it wasn't intended to be a historically accurate docudrama - it was actors acting a story, which it did pretty well and in a surprisingly entertaining manner. And for me, that was just fine. I think - for instance - Idris Elba would give an amazing performance as Winston Churchill in a story about his life before becoming PM, but there's no way I'd consider taking it as historically accurate and I sure as heck wouldn't watch him as Churchill during the Battle of Britain.

My .02, YMMV. ;)

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-03-03 07:54|| 2024-03-03 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 I am amazed at the popularity of South Pacific. Older women especially. They still have theater productions but with COVID I don't know anymore.

Posted by Dale 2024-03-03 08:02|| 2024-03-03 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 1949 original production. 2010 last theater production. I remember a woman attended a show in the late 70's. It had it's detractors.

Posted by Dale 2024-03-03 08:07|| 2024-03-03 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Angel Studios is beating them again and again.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-03-03 11:16|| 2024-03-03 11:16|| Front Page Top

#6 My wife and I watch old shows exclusively. Star Trek (STNG,DS9, etc.), Suits, Six Feet Under, Home Improvement, ...

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2024-03-03 13:01|| 2024-03-03 13:01|| Front Page Top

#7 the popularity of South Pacific.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-03-03 13:15|| 2024-03-03 13:15|| Front Page Top

#8 August 30 - October 7 2018 Olney Theater
Ticket prices:
$42 - $84

Posted by Dale 2024-03-03 13:23|| 2024-03-03 13:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't watch TV.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-03 13:25|| 2024-03-03 13:25|| Front Page Top

#10 The last three tv shows in our house- Get Smart, the Dick van Dyke show, and the Beverly Hillbillies.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-03-03 17:41|| 2024-03-03 17:41|| Front Page Top

#11

We watch the cleaner, safer non-MA+ viewer rated older shows using the Cinema HD App. and purchase the Real-Debrid steamer feed for about $32.50 a year.

KODI also is viable I hear?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-03-03 18:55|| 2024-03-03 18:55|| Front Page Top

#12 I found Andromeda, which I think got lost after ST:TNG and Babylon 5....and for good reason. But:

After I got past the campiness inherent in a lower production budget project, it is far superior than anything new Star Trek and Star Wars has shit out the last 10 years. And I hate time travel shows in general. They even pulled of a The Final Countdown Movie and do a good job with the "If you could go back in time and change the outcome of a battle your side is defeated, do you?" The best so far is the one with, I forget the name of the episode, but Fish People. It tackles both an assassination plot and fallible heroes in a single episode.

Grew up with Baa Baa Black Sheep so that re-visit was fun. One of the best scores ever, unlike the very, purposeful, generic scores of today.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-03-03 20:05|| 2024-03-03 20:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Yogurt: "Merchandising...Merchandising!"

So the people who do that, have to do it by the catalog. If you want A, you have to also buy XYZLG, that is, you know one character is going to sell well, but with that one you get 4 which -never- sell and you end up with a pile of shit today's hip kids don't follow

-dang'd older fart alert-
Was watching a screen with a dude, guy on screen his mosquito pot or whatever blew up. We laughed (not ha ha but oh dang just sitting there minding yourself), I asked him to pinch me in case I was dreaming. Made a reference to the beginning of the movie Gladiator. "Huh?"

And that's the point.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-03-03 21:15|| 2024-03-03 21:15|| Front Page Top

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