Things You Just Don't Care About

succession is just like... as good as writing for a visual medium gets

This is what people told me about Deadwood and a) it wasn't true of the two episodes of Succession I watched and b) it wasn't true of Deadwood either. I ground my way through the first two seasons without finding a single character to give a fuck about. On the other hand, I just re-watched Season 5 of Justified, the one everybody hates because of Michael Rapaport's accent, and that was a very entertaining story about a disgusting criminal family flailing around and lashing out at each other in the wake of their patriarch's demise.

Brad, it’s not snobbery to want to do other things with one’s time.

It's snobbery when you inflect posts so that you belittle the people who like the things you scorn.

I think between Succession and Martin Amis I just don’t understand what other people mean when they say “good writing.”

yeah that’s probably it

Brad, it’s not snobbery to want to do other things with one’s time.

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, May 29, 2023 7:02 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fair enough! it just depresses me when writers don’t respond to or don’t want to engage with a well-written thing that happens to be popular but i’m sure you’ve got no shortage of good writing to engage with

It's snobbery when you inflect posts so that you belittle the people who like the things you scorn.

I don’t really care if people don’t care about stuff I care about unless they are actively preventing me from accessing it. Life is too short.

Brad, it’s not snobbery to want to do other things with one’s time.

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, May 29, 2023 7:02 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fair enough! it just depresses me when writers don’t respond to or don’t want to engage with a well-written thing that happens to be popular but i’m sure you’ve got no shortage of good writing to engage with

Are you saying you never went back and watched the first 3 seasons?

No belittling meant, sorry it came out that way.

lol this is your entire posting style

nor are you sorry

Martin Amis.

I don't even own a show

I still sort of care about Martin Amis despite giving him a wide berth for many decades, but I don’t care if other people don’t care about him.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/

THE MOST-WATCHED NETWORKS OF 2022-23 (BY TOTAL VIEWERS)
Network (Total viewer number; Year-to-year comparison)

CBS (5,888,000; down 5%)
NBC (5,218,000; down 13%)
Fox (4,419,000; down 1%)
ABC (4,111,000; down 1%)
ESPN (2,186,000; up 2%)
Fox News (2,109,000; down 15%)
Univision (1,279,000; down 14%)
MSNBC (1,185,000; up 2%)
TNT (1,073,000; down 9%)
Hallmark (1,012,000; down 13%)
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 29 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

If this is how TV is doing there won't be any cinemas in ten years

Meta discussions about television.

People not caring about things

things

Otm

What mookieproof says about anything

wtf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JKvfdZwytc

Seriously there's got to be more going on with this Philip Schofield thing for it to be taking up this much media coverage for so long. Oh no, am I starting to care??

His brother has just been sentenced to 12 years for sexual abuse of a teenage boy, Philip Schofield first met the guy he had a relationship with when the guy was 15. A whole lot of dot joining going on in the UK media.

when UK people apply for television presenter vacancies they should be honest when ticking the paedophile YES/NO? box on the application form. It would save a lot of trouble!

I hate myself for knowing this, but he first met the boy when he was 11.

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sorry Gordon is cancelled

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— christhebarker (@christhebarker) June 2, 2023

Obvious I know but Prince Harry, I wish this cunt would just disappear.

he seems to have inherited all the worst personality traits from the guy who most likely isn't his biological dad, hope the cunt loses. Yes I'm on side with the right-wing gutter press here!

I totally don't care but Harry having a massive hissy fit at the Royals and England is funny. The only the royalists hate!

"the Mandela effect"

half the things people cite are things I never believed to be true, most of all that a fucking stupid movie called Shazaam featuring Sinbad exists.

I still don't believe that people thought Nelson Mandela died in the early 90s.

hell, there's even a joke in PCU:

"Free Nelson Mandela!"

"THEY FREED HIM ALREADY!"

the Glastonbury Festival

Man City's treble

"I don’t care about the show, I’m tired of it taking up space everywhere, and I especially resent the weird coercion that happens around these shows, like one must care about them to care about contemporary culture or something. That’s hogwash. I’ll watch my dumb comedy shows from four seasons ago and whatever other bullshit I’m on at the moment."

i feel this way. but that's just age. it happens to the best of us. it is true that hollywood is a dire pit of horrible and the rest of the world is in some sort of insane renaissance of film and t.v.-making though. i still haven't seen midsommar and everythingeverywhere because i am a child and hate when people tell me i have to see something. i am happy with castle and chopped reruns and all the other dumb stuff i rot my brain with. i thought that was supposed to be the cool thing about the internet and streaming. doesn't matter when you watch something. YES i will watch the last of us eventually leave me alone! you know? i finally watched martyrs. i waited 15 years.

(succession talk reminds me of people raving about the west wing and me hating the west wing. but i didn't hate succession. i watched the first two seasons. feel like that was enough. unperson brings up deadwood and i have never made it all the way through. for the record, i hated nypd blue. bochco/milch were no homicide/wire. they were corny as fuck. like M.A.S.H. was their fave t.v. show or something. hill street blues totally reminded me of M.A.S.H. when it was on t.v. i am a huge fan of Hell On Wheels though. i might actually re-watch the whole thing.)

Good conservatives.

agreed, frankly I think all of the people that are being talked about there should be blasted into the sun.

Which Indiana Jones movie men, in particular, say is absolutely the worst one

You still have time to write "screwball comedies."

me neither Eric!

figma. about 50% of the tweets i see are about figma.

(the other half are lists of 15 ways to earn dollarbucks using chatgpt, all of which seem to have been written by chatgpt and are devoid of content)

i've managed to not care about anything T-Swift-related and its not because i wish her any ill will or have any general disregard for her career, fame, or happiness. And it's not because I'm not interested in pop fandom, predatory entertainment companies, or commerce and art in America. I just don't care.

And scott seward's gonna not care care care care and the haters gonna hate hate hate hate and Taylor's gonna shake shake shake, shake it off

Shake Scott off