Don’t be (too) ashamed. What’s the slop you’re getting into this week? Games, movies, tv shows, etc.
I’ll go first I suppose. I’m watching Burn Notice. I’m on season 3 episode 3. Some of the dialogue is so painful I’m embarrassed to watch it but then I power thru it and finally get to a high quality action scene. Former spy works w former girlfriend, his mom, and a fair weather friend to solve some problems in sunny Florida. It’s completely believable and socially redeeming.
So let’s hear it.
i actually stand on burn notice, it’s campy but fun and the cia is maybe at it’s most correct portrayal in slopular media: an evil cabal that you can never get untangled from. also bruce campbell, who’s just a real treat.
I highly recommend the series Hanna, it’s like John Wick action, the CIA and the USA are unequivocally evil antagonists and they are explicitly using their secret super assassin program to plant child soldier sleep agents in places to take out left wing and anti-imperialist agitators and just regular environmental activists that are not even militant (though these are only noticeable if you freeze frame on a specific dossier from one of the later seasons that is otherwise just a generic intel plot device).
Agreed. I have cozy memories of watching it over summer break on the USA network, along with White Collar (I barely remember this one but it’s probably copaganda) and Psych.
White Collar is absolutely copaganda and also I don’t remotely want Neal, I just want his hats. And maybe his apartment.
The costume dept must have been the biggest part of that show’s budget
Same. Psych was a campy favorite of mine.
Looking back, all of the “characters wanted” shows were copaganda. Every single one.
another fan. dozens of us.
‘When you’re burned…’
My wife and I will randomly say this to each other whenever a phrase brings it up “damn I burned the toast” “when you’re burned…”
For all mankind. Pumped for the Anti Communist Propaganda of Star City that will nevertheless make the USSR look really cool.
It’s so bad. I don’t think it was fully intentional to make the US look as bad as it actually does in the show. I had to stop watching after a few eps
That sounds really sloppy and delicious.
FAM US: Electric cars, an 80’s green revolution! Safe, common nuclear power! Feminism and LGBT rights 20 years earlier! Things are so different that Ronald Reagan was a nice guy who wanted peace!
FAM USSR:
it’s 1958 but everyone lives in worn down 1980’s blocks.
It’s 1978 but everyone lives in worn down 1980’s blocks.
It’s 2008 but everyone lives in worn down 1980’s blocks
The Boys, tbh.
I know that the creator is a lib and that Frenchie’s played by an IDF goon but I’m invested now and I will finish my bowl of slop
the Ukraine line in the most recent one almost broke me.
There was another earlier in the season and I just laughed it off because it makes absolutely no fucking sense in the context of the show’s world building
Ashley the VPOTUS screaming on the phone (presumably at Zelensky) “it’s your own fault you got invaded! You were wearing too short of a skirt!” It was amusing on some level but my god was it a reminder of the vapid lib mindset.
You’ve got this evil admin that is basically a coup of the “real” America where the fascist ruler is totally hands-off international affairs (the horror) and who in many ways (some of them pretty accurate) is a stand-in for Trump. But not aiding Ukrainian fascists is painted as this evil thing to do here, using the trope that epitomizes victim-blaming where the victim is widdle smol bean Ukraine against the vicious Russians.
I’m pretty sure in this silly world of their’s NATO doesn’t even exist since the US has all the supes, so Russia wouldn’t have had any reason to invade. I can’t fault them for not going into that kind of geopolitical nuance of course, but still, the way they do portray it is nothing more than “Russia just did that” no doubt because Putler, and their method for showing the audience how evil and narcissistic this Homelander-led admin is, is to show how uncaring they are of poor Ukraine’s plight, and how flat out unwilling they are to send military aid to Ukraine. That’s what is supposed to show us they’re obviously the baddies. They’re so evil and incompetent, they’re victim-blaming Ukraine! And they do this multiple times.
Whoever the showrunners are, they clearly have a deep and abiding hardon for Ukraine.
I feel like a thing that kind of has to be addressed here is that the early seasons focused on the horror that would be throwing a privatised military at foreign conflicts, especially when said military was a bunch of superpowered untrained manchildren who do tiktok dances. And now we are supposed to see it as horrifying when Homelander (And Ashley) pull them out.
Yeah they’re forcing some stuff this season without any relevant plot points. Like when they stomped out that Nazi, that was great, but at least they had a plot to frame it around.
Just watched some clips and they try to shove the whole “trump/chuds loves russia” which is weird cuz i thought in the early season the culture in the boys is permanently stuck on 9/11 bush paranoia
That’s mostly because the comics were written in the Bush era, as things have gone on and they’ve diverged more they’ve incorporated modern politics instead.
They had a point where they tortured a billionaire by giving his money to Elizabeth Warren
You got past the part where they tortured a billionaire by giving his money to Elizabeth Warren’s PAC and Ukraine got you?
eh, it’s on the same level of finding hipstery ways to describe bad smells
I’m more upset that they are dragging their feet so much and I hope the last 3 episodes make some major changes to the world and move towards the climax
30 Rock. Season 2 for some reason has a lot of queerphobia for some reason and it cleared up in later seasons.
The Jenna Marroni character is legit a shockingly horrible person. But Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy character is a great lampoon of CEO/capitalists. He’s actually based on the real former GE CEO Jack Welch, a particularly egregious historical figure. And honestly, him with Tina Fay and Tracy Morgan are pretty funny.
Fucking love 30 Rock
30Rock is a great show. I never got deep into it but every one ive watched has some funny shit in it.
I love 30 rock but goddamn has like 90% of it aged horribly
Yeah, Jenna’s character legit needs to be buried under the prison.
I just finished Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Not very sloppy, just devastatingly twee. For the real slop, I have been watching Lucifer. Not only is it copaganda, but I’m not even watching episodes as a whole, but as 30 second youtube shorts clips.
I’m still so fucking pissed how they butchered that TV adaptation. Nick Carey did an amazing job and they just threw out everything he worked on to make another CSI/Law & Order/NYPD Blue slop fest.
Tron, the original. I consume it once per night as prescribed by my psyche.
Crimson Desert, it’s basically Assassin’s Creed but I can’t put it down
Watching Battlestar Galactica for the third time. Just watched season 2 Pegasus.
I made my gf watch the miniseries and she was loathed to admit that she really enjoyed it. So here we frakking are.
Mostly Youtube stuff, been watching Miniminuteman’s debunking stuff. It’s fine. I don’t have too much of an opinion on it since it has been a while since I engaged with conspiracy theories so I am not too familiar with ins and outs.
I wonder if the algorithm just started pushing him. I’ve never really engaged with conspiracy stuff or anti-conspiracy stuff on YouTube, but he was recommended to me recently and I watched through a few of his videos. It’s pretty tasty slop, and I even learned some cool stuff about geology and such.
he’s been growing steadily for a while and has some good stuff on one of the indigenous mound building societies
I assumed on my end, it’s because I have been watching the Danny・Drew conspiracy video on repeat and so Youtube probably pushed him towards me as a result.
He definitely has been blowing out from his view counts at least.
Im always up for some good conspiracy stuff. 10/10.
new star war maul shadow lord, as per usual with these animated shows the plot and writing is all over the place but it’s quite amazingly rendered. i’m talking very nearly Arcane art direction and quality. the team(s?) that do these shows have clearly gotten really really good at this animation style.
i wouldn’t actually recommend it, Maul’s character doesn’t work well without a comedic foil, he’s way too edgy. the heaps of action setpieces are indulgent and overwrought, the stakes are hard to appreciate when the important characters die in other media.
super pretty to look at though
haha my first thought on watching was “This art style has come a long way since early clone wars”
I haven’t finished but god I hope every cop dies. They’re all so goddamn annoying
Night Court. Both of them.
I like John Larroquette. The first season of The John Larroquette Show is pretty good but I can’t find a watchable copy. There was a few late-00’s tv rips on Youtube but they’re gone now.
i don’t travel
i don’t eat meat, which tends to be a huge part of these videos
and even if i did, i’m too cheap to go to restaurants
but i love watching youtubers who go around doing gimmicky restaurant reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8eDwKt0sZA
my wife watches that one guy from the try guys eat the whole menu of fast food restaurants, and even though i’ve never consumed anything else the try guys have produced, I really enjoy watching him either get completely delirious from the amount of food he’s consumed, or just get incredibly high throughout because he’s trying to get the munchies to continue
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I’ve watched way too much Binging with Babish on YouTube, and some of it gets reeeeeeeaally close to just being consumption porn. Ten different levels of the same food just feels gross.
I think almost everything on YT is consumption porn of some sort. It’s short clips/vids with the relevant subjects equivalent of porno moaning - food influencers groaning about the cheese pull or the crumb shot, mechanics hooting about performance car parts, gun guys jizzing their pants over the newest elephant gun that shoots a caliber larger than a Foster’s beer oil can.
It’s all maximized for oohs and aaaahs, everything has to be slick AF, and ready to be ogled appropriately. YouTube is a net negative for us as humans. The positives are well outweighed by the downsides.
gun guys jizzing their pants over the newest elephant gun that shoots a caliber larger than a Foster’s beer oil can.
leave Kentucky Ballistics alone
lol that’s exactly whom I had in mind
lmao. he seems so genuine. maybe it was the almost dying.
At least I found out why when I grew up the Girl Scout cookies tasted better. It turns out where I live currently has the regional monopoly of the bad cookie producer and not the good one
Same. Im oddly upset about that for some reason too.
such an arc of the development of youtube content in the microcosm of one man. i remember when the channel was a few months old and it was just a guy in his kitchen taking a crack at nonsense foods dreamed up by hollywood writers.
Playing World of Warcraft. I haven’t done shit the last few weeks and all I have been doing is playing this piece of shit
Get better soon
Same, started playing wotlk again when the turtleWow news broke
My partner has an extremely stressful job dealing with extraordinarily dysfunctional people and their problems (which my partner is also responsible for resolving). When my partner has a particularly stressful day at work, the only thing that can make them feel better is non-dairy ice cream and reality tv. Tonight we ate mint chocolate chip and watched the 90 Day the Other Way Reunion. It was glorious, filthy slop. 10/10. Would recommend.
honestly, sometimes some garbage television does a body good. Its a good way to be beside yourself a while, and focus on something other than your harrowing day.
90 Day the Other Way is top tier slop and I miss having someone to watch it with. It’s no fun alone but I used to watch it with an old roommate before she moved away.
