Posted on 01/15/2024 12:18:18 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I really stopped watching TV because I can’t take the pandering, indoctrination, and mind control. And the commercials...they ENRAGE me.
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Well whatever it is it’s never ended because you can still find I Love Lucy broadcast or streamed somewhere every day. Lol.
Never happen today.
From a business/industry standpoint, the golden age of television ended when cable TV was introduced and the Big Three networks no longer monopolized the broadcasting world.
And wasn’t the ending spectacular?
Lots of people didn’t like it. But then lots of people don’t like to think and use their creative imaginations.
Netflix has different licensing deals in different countries. I’d also guess the fine print of our subscriptions say they aren’t valid in other countries. As the other poster said, you probably need a VPN connected to a US server with a Us account to stream it.
I’ve watched a lot of great shows on Prime/Netflix/PBS/Britbox and Apple+.
Wile there is a LOT of garbage, careful selection is highly rewarding.
There is no shortage of jewels.
Just some thoughts about the ending—won’t be a spoiler to those who have not seen it.
I would argue it was a throwback to H.G. Wells radio show “The War of the Worlds”.
In those days folks panicked and called the police because they thought there was a real alien invasion happening (in New Jersey no less :-)).
For those who don’t remember the ending of the Sopranos had folks on the phone calling their cable TV companies...
I would argue Chase knew that would happen—did it on purpose—an homage to “War of the Worlds”.
Again my opinion—but the multi-dimensionality was part of the key to understanding the Sopranos.
The ending breaks out of one dimension—into another one—and took many viewers there—literally.
The hints are when Tony’s identity is stolen in the long dream many episodes earlier...
Great stuff.
“Somehow I doubt every TV show in Russia features homos and lesbians kissing and having sex like this country does.”
I am sure their TV shows told of the wisdom and heroism of the Soviet leaders and about the corruption of the businessmen and the West.
You must have seen this.
The Fall Of Berlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hZam8dXHU
It was so over the top in Stalin Worship, that Nikita Khrushchev even mentioned it in his Secret Speech denouncing Stalin.
I watch old britbox and older videos. Some Scandinavian and Asian films.
I assume that nothing else is good. There is no more common culture. I read. I do not participate.
There is nothing that is not dangerous to me like complacency with a culture that asks whether I know about the latest.
All gone.
That was much more a reference to the dramatic shows like Playhouse 90 and the Kraft Television Theater than to the sitcoms.
Cable shows like the Sopranos, the Wire, Breaking Bad,Game of Thrones, and the Crown launched a second golden age. but that’s ending now.
The 2nd Top Gun was good precisely because there was no woke bs in it.
It died when they stopped showing people smoking.
Coy and Vance had more talent than every HBO tv “actor” combined
Well check out the big brain on that guy...
But it was the same exact story line, just the call signs were changed.
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