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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I have trouble relating because as someone just posted the quality of TV and movies have significantly increased in most cases.

Most TV that I grew up with, and I’m Gen X, was just pablum. I guess the creators did not give the public any credit for any sort of intelligence so they just did very basic plots that would basically wrap up in the 30 or 60 minutes of the show. Important characters that would be on the show for years just disappeared. No one would talk about them again. The same plots were recycled over and over.

I find the quality so much better with a lot more depth today. I actually have trouble watching movies now because I don’t feel 2 or 2 1/2 hours is enough to really develop characters and storylines, I’ve been spoiled by streaming and being able to watch character development over 30 hours of a three season show.[/quote]

My brother has a TBI. He likes the rerun channels because he can't follow plots of shows he has not seen before. He also has hearing loss related to the TBI injury. So he will have his TV at full blast on a channel that plays mostly 80s sitcoms. I visit him from time to time but can only withstand the torture of Small Wonders at full volume for a limited time.  [/quote]

This tracks - shows were just much simpler and easier to follow.

I’m not knocking all of them. During the pandemic, I went down a major nostalgia rabbit hole and my kids and I watched “Who’s the Boss.” It took me back to the 1980s where I would watch in my living room on Tuesday nights. I really enjoyed the show and actually really enjoyed the simplicity of it and how no problems were that big….when we were going through such a dark, strange time.

But I do appreciate the depth on some of the shows I’ve watched in the last 5 years. I don’t want this to turn this into whether this show versus that show is good because I feel like we have plenty of threads on individual shows, so I’ll just say that I can think of shows that I’ve enjoyed from the last five years that have taken on mental health, sexual assault and consent, addiction, the complexities of sibling relationships, etc. in a nuanced way that show runners wouldn’t have dreamt of when I was growing up.

That said, agree with OP that just because of all the streaming channels, and all the content out there, there is definitely a lot of crap being made as well. Life is too short and if I start a show or a book and it’s not grabbing me I bail. [/quote]

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