#trending Shows to watch

[elliesgaymachete]

I think Game of Thrones damaged collective expectations for television media and is the reason for the decline of full length low budget seasons.

We all know HBO is high budget cable even before, but Game of Thrones was arguably the first time one of their shows became so massively, globally successful. People who had never consumed fantasy media in their lives were watching Game of Thrones. It became mainstream culture rather than nerd culture so your coworkers weren’t going to make fun of you for liking it. In fact, your coworkers probably watched it too.

Before this the only TV shows that achieved anywhere close to this level of popularity (and even then were not nearly as popular as Game of Thrones) were network shows, usually TV comedies. These were low budget and had full seasons! Things like HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, The Office. You either watched them or knew multiple people who watched them. Sometimes TV dramas also reached this level of popularity—Shondaland shows to name a few. Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder. Even if you didn’t watch them, you had heard of them. These were also network shows. Low budgets, 22 episodes. Not to mention network television is FREE so it has the potential to reach a much wider audience than cable.

But Game of Thrones exploded into common popularity. Even people who didn’t watch much television watched Game of Thrones. And you know what they had because it’s an HBO show? Insanely high budgets and 10 episode seasons. They were basically making ten short movies released as TV seasons. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that itself, it worked well for Game of Thrones. The problem is how its affected television production since then. Sure shorter seasons and miniseries have existed before, but it feels like they’ve been in an upward trend ever since Game of Thrones

Every studio with a streaming service wants to create the next mega popular phenomenon like Game of Thrones so they copy the formula. Big budget, shorter seasons. Quality over quantity. But in doing so they neglected the main format television has used for quite a while. Network seasons are fewer and far between with smaller budgets and shorter seasons so they can invest more in the high budget shows. And a few of them were good, but somewhere along the way, they lost sight of the quality part and throw microbudgets at shows for six episode runs and are surprised when no one gets invested after only six episodes when we used to get 22 episodes and since no one’s watching anyway they just cancel it without giving the show a chance to find its legs. If it happens to get a lucky with a second season but there’s not EXPONENTIAL growth in viewership? Cancelled. Why is no one watching tv anymore? Why does no one want to pay for our streaming service that releases maybe one show you like every other year? Why why why they ask when they ruined a perfectly good formula and make things less and less accessible

[jeena-says-hi]

My favourite thing about tumblr is that whenever there’s news, like the titanic submarine, India landing on the moon and now the Trump mugshot, it always causes supernatural to be trending too since it’s always the “I love you” template

Literally my fav thing ever

[kerryweaverlesbian]

When Eileen or whoever Sam's blurry wife is in a throw away line in a fic is pregnant to show that Sam's happy and doing good it kinda revolts me not gonna lie. We're really putting 2.5 kids on whatever woman shaped object is in Sam's love life? And on Sam for that matter? Who, by the end of the show, expressed zero interest in having a little baby and said he felt fulfilled by hunting, despite its downsides.

One of the reasons Sam and Eileen work well together is that they're both hunters and feel able to lean on each other in that regard, and yet pregnancy or motherhood is often the only thing we hear about Eileen in these cases. She's made into an incubator. Is the only vision of happiness she's allowed becoming Mary from the first minute of the Pilot?

[lilaccatholic]

Probably SUCH an unpopular opinion except in my little corner of the world, but BOY would Bridgerton so be my thing if it weren't for all the sex scenes

[ru-inn]

I love Michael Sheen so much that man is an acting genius and so talented. The things he does with micro-expressions are especially beautiful and he shines in every role I’ve ever seen him in. He is, in my opinion, the blueprint of an acting chameleon, he completely transform into roles and obviously cares so much for his characters. I wanna see more Michael appreciation please and thank you.

[no-passaran]

"We need more weird art" you can't even handle musicals because the story is told through music and dance

[cryptids-and-muses]

So I’m having one of my reoccurring dreams about my estranged family. It happens. But this time, in my old family home there’s this supernatural spinoff/reboot/sequel on the tv. I’m not even watching the tv in the dream mind you it’s just on.

The brothers are tracking this like doomsday cult as they do and SURPRISE castiel is back from super hell and he’s a mega powerful new kind of demon! And is the one the cult has been trying to use! And hes still in love with dean! Who’s too in shock to believe this is real or that’s really cas!

I don’t catch what happens next but later as I’m packing to go to the airport (another staple of these dreams) I’m listening to a video essay about how this continues the shows homophobic trend of treating gay love as monstrous and predatory. With tumblr discourse over how this was handled and if it was good or bad.

And can I just say, what a b plot

[lyxchen]

I feel like I'm digging myself deep into a hole and finding nothing, trying to figure out more about In-ho's family

[dazeddoodles]

The group of three mean girls thing is crazy because I remember like...maybe one scene of Amity, Boscha and Skara together and that's it.

It's that and the main character having two friends for me. I can't believe Dana copied Fairly Oddparents because the main character in that also has two friends.

So many examples of that post were just *two characters with completely different personalities standing similarly* and *the most vague/basic/common trope in existence*

[hazellvsq]

headcanon that hazel had the most parasocial beef imaginable with shirley temple. 8 year old hazel was writing hate mail to the local paper with her crayons calling the also 8 year old shirley a sellout and an industry plant. in 2010 hazel's watching nick at nite on the fifth cohort rec room tv and sees the 2 minute long shirley temple box set commercial and loses her fucking mind.

[spirxl-png]

It’s done! My human Bill design

[indygotcha]

No, Kirito is not a cunt, or a Reagan of modern anime, or even like, the decade-built bile of a bad writing tropes in a character. You guys just don't want to engage with him as a character in fair or sincere terms, or keep missing the point of his actions, personality traits, and deeper conflicts within him in the anime throughout. It's been more than a decade. Go try again.

[deliriousblue]

perhaps unfair in many ways but i do wonder if the focus on trending is having a backlash effect where people feel forced to go out of their way to praise the show and then end up even angrier at the parts they don’t like

[enterprise-bee]

one of the best things about watching star trek now, multiple episodes at a time instead of week-by-week, is that sometimes I get the wonderful tonal whiplash of having just finished a dead serious episode about the aftermath of war and the way it affects all those who fought in it only to immediately get “THERE IS A CON ARTIST PRETENDING TO BE THE DEVIL AND SHE WANTS TO FUCK THE CAPTAIN”

[toxicrevolver]

Rules: without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favourite BL series and then tag ten people to do the same.

Tagged by @boysbeloving thanks for the tag 💚💚💚

Bestie. I’ve only seen like 2 maybe 3 BLs in their entirety (I’m severely slacking). So I’m just gonna do 10 favourite series.

This is in no particular order. I panic when I try to put anything in an actual favourites order.

I feel like a lot of these are kinda obvious if you’ve been around my blog for a while but oh well. I like what I like 🤷

Tagging (no pressure): @haahka @smushedmuffin @we-survive-endlessly @loveable-sea-lemon @faceglitchsworld @skinzchoerim @porschesbabydaddy @txumxssianfox @tighnaridabouken @babetanatat and anyone else who wants to participate can blame me