#ON CABLE TV????

[ginaonline]

"Gus, don't be the only black lead on a major cable network" is a line engrained in my brain 😭 i love Shawn's "Gus, don't be" running joke but the ones like this where he breaks the 4th wall are especially hilarious

[smokbeast]

Been too slow for ut content but, I did try my hand at making an error, as I always and usually do. I don’t fully read the lore or follow up fully on how most aus canons/fanons work and just do my own thing. He’s called seam and he’s a passive error! He’s a bit silly but he’s got the right idea

[pillsopa]

hashtag just Carrie things!

[mylittleredgirl]

how did you get your tv growing up? (if you had multiple houses or technologies, pick the one you most identify with your formative childhood tv experience)

op's formative tv experience was in a rural area with rabbit ears in the 90s, but before 18 i lived in a place with every one of these except satellite. rotary antenna is its own category because i will never forget the day when a friend's family put one in. the sheer power of turning that knob and seeing a wholeass giant roof antenna turning around and then you can pick up the x-files?? fucking religious experience.

[mechieonu]

i know that disney is too big to boycott effectively but that shouldn't translate to "and so we should keep buying their products like normal" but rather "at the very least we should try"

[inkskinned]

"the strike is gonna kill my favorite shows" babe okay if you don't want to think about the human livelihoods at stake (you should really be thinking about the humans though) like. think about what happens after this. when writing pays you enough to eat; more people get to be writers. more stories. more interesting plots and ideas. think about what gets made when artists aren't starving.

you've been complaining for years that tv is going downhill. part of that is because the writers aren't paid enough - a screenwriter needs to be able to live with a very low paycheck while being virtually anonymous, so as a profession it self-selects for a very slim number of people. part of bad writing is burnout and the absolutely criminal amount of influence corporations have over scripts. writing is actually a craft, despite what people who love chatGPT will tell you - and, as a craft; it takes time, diligence, and support.

and yes, i understand. you have a connection to a piece of media, which is what writers want. but we regret to inform you that your blorbo is as real as the image in the mirror - is your reflection actually you? can the reflection ever show anything but the truth? as writers, our work is the reflection. you can't keep throwing our bodies under buses and then being shocked that our work is bitter, 2d, "needs revision". imagine what gets made when the artist is inspired and has the time, space, energy, and fucking budget to actually make what makes them happy.

i love you so much. but also, really - and for real - before anything else, please remember it's human livelihoods at stake.

[relaxedstyles]

[tonymarias]

[kangals]

I’m at my parents house this weekend and Kep is very attentively watching a nature documentary about painted dogs with us

[vamprisms]

it is possible to have longer & well written/produced seasons of tv shows that are made under good union conditions. you know this in your heart

[carbon-fiber-internal-organs]

[space-buggie]

evil timeline where twitter exists in 1989

[eziosofia]

Shout out to leading men in Netflix shows from the early 20th century in nicely tailored suits who live only to simp for the love of their lives, gotta be one of my favourite genders!

[weirdozjunkary]

It pisses me the fuck off how streaming services are trying to put in adds, when the WHOLE POINT of streaming services are TO WATCH THINGS WITHOUT ADDS.

They’re just tuning it into slightly more convenient cable at this point.

[idonthaveacontract]

[katapotato55]

how come no one is talking about Brilliant Minds?

so there is this new medical drama show called Brilliant minds, but instead of it being the usual high stakes ER medical drama its about a psychology and neurology ward. "its just house md but- " ok I love house md, but also this show is not house md. The characters and tone of the show is too different to house MD. (also as much as I love house MD, this show aged.... poorly. thats the 2000s for ya!)

Things that stand out to me about this show:

it is an actually REALLY GOOD REPRESENTATION ABOUT MENTAL DISORDERS. all of it is somewhat accurate (for tv standards at least) and doesn't jam everyone into one umbrella like seriously, the show goes out of it's way to showcase the struggles of people with mental disorders without focusing too hard on the shock value

EMPATHY. DEAR GOD IS THAT SOMETHING THAT IS RARE IN TERMS OF MENTAL HEALTH. For once it is nice having representation for just treating mental patients with RESPECT AND CARE. WE NEED THIS MORE THAN EVER. Too many people just assume the worst with others when they are in a vulnerable state!

The fact the patient isn't fixed by a miracle drug or procedure and is treated with various types of therapy! I have heard too many times people asking if the meds will "fix them yet" when often times mental health struggles needs a ton of time to recover from.

AND how sometimes you just don't know HOW the disorder started, but they still took time to try and fix it regardless of the cause This happens in real life. sometimes you lose your ability to do something and there is no known cause, and its frustrating being hospitalized for it. The fact this show shown some self restraint instead of doing a bullshit "brilliant doctor magically finds out the cause" thing most medical shows do. and last but not least:

The representation for face blindness and childhood mental health issues.

I was born with a few nerodivergent quirks such as having a type of emotional face blindness. this is common with people with ASD and ADHD. I remember growing up accidentally upsetting people, or people thinking I am stupid or a jerk because I didn't know they were upset. I can recognize faces and who people are, but when it comes to emotional expressions its hard for me to get the nuances of. feel free to make fun of me for enjoying this really corny medical drama show, but god damn that first episode just made me cry with the representation for cognitive therapy. the parts about focusing on the smaller parts of the face like the mouth and eyebrows is accurate. Yall are sleeping on this show. cmon!