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Why are so many TV shows trying to be "meta" these days? I think it's lazy writing. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just watched the first episode of the new Futurama season and the running gag was their attempt to make fun of the Hulu streaming network (Fulu)… in the year 3023. Not only that, but they also parody Black Mirror which itself parodies Netfix (Streamberry) in their latest season.

What is up with all of this meta stuff? Does anyone actually enjoy it? Is this really the quality of TV prior to AI taking over the writing?

I feel like an old man yelling at the clouds right now ☁️, but look at how they massacred my boy, Futurama!

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[–] qwamqwamqwam 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, yes, a single survivor, who’s Wikipedia article calls it out as rare exception. The one that survived by sticking to safe topics like making fun of alcoholics and capitalist nations. All of it’s other peers died, of course. And that definitely compares to the Simpsons 20-something years long career of poking fun at just about every aspect of American culture and government, not to mention the thousands of other satirical print and media works generated by free Western society.

My apologies, I guess you could publish satire in the Soviet Union, provided you were feeling lucky(and willing to bend the knee).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure why you're getting so defensive over this, I'm not trying to start an argument here, I'm just pointing out that Soviet satire definitely existed.

a single survivor .. rare exception

Maybe it was rare, I dunno, but there are plenty of other interesting examples of long running satire published in that region at that time. Deny their existence if you like, but that seems illogical to me.