Fuck that shit, I want to watch sci fi
im currently watching the orville, its perfect to just forget everything and be entertained in on a silly level
can recommend
I’m sooo hyped that it’s coming back with another season! Just the show we need these days.
Nice! All hope was lost. That last season was some good stuff.
even more?! NIIIICE
Ooh that sounds perfect right now. Lost my pup recently and really need just some good distraction. I’ll check that out today, thank you! And with that username, I’m very excited by your suggestion :)
my families dog is also getting old… idk this might hit me the hardest, I cant imagine how you feel rn - my condolences.
Arrakis… yeah, I gotta watch Dune too :D Haven’t yet. The name is originating from the kyrillic translation since peanut is such widespread nickname, I adapted it like that :D “Arachis hypogaea” is also the bontanic term for example
Thanks, yeah it’s a tough journey. I was thankfully able to spend a lot of time with her up to the end and she was very comfortable and I can say she had a good life so I am okay with that. Our fur babies are truly something special and the time we get with them is just incredible.
Ahh I see that now in the name hah, TIL! I dig it! Check Dune, it’s phenomenal
I’ve been rewatching The Expanse. God it’s good.
I just read the summary for that and it sounds awesome, I’ll check that out, thank you!
Both books and TV series are worth it. There’s enough difference to make both interesting and the authors were involved enough in the TV series that it is still good.
Bonus: The book series is complete and, while there is another book and some short stories of narrative content, the show ends without a “we got cancelled” cliffhanger and the final book is a bit of an extended epilogue with a significant time gap, so, maybe we’ll get a production of another season in another decade.
Double bonus: The authors’ new book series, which just has its first book released last year, has already had a TV series deal signed.
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It is kinda bonkers how much of TV watched is copaganda
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SG1 was like… One of the first shows I watched from start to finish. I now cannot, it is so blatantly a centrist lib being like “I wish the US military was like this”.
i love SG1 but the propaganda aspect does get noticeably worse over the course of the show
And medical dramas ignoring the INSANE cost of medicine in the US
I remember one line in the good doctor that went something along the lines of
“We treat the super wealthy with whatever they want so we can treat the poor with what they need”
I don’t live in the US and even I knew that line was complete BS
Atlanta, Black Mirror, Severance, Silo, The Terror: Infamy, Slow Horses, The Bear, Black Bird, Baby Reindeer, Station Eleven, Russian Doll. Most of what I’ve seen recently that was produced in the last few years has been primarily about people who are not wealthy or privileged.
Great list! Add in the show ‘Maid’ starring Margaret Qualley.
I read some article the other day, how they had noticed a heavy attempt, by Hollywood, to glamorise and humanise ultra rich, like Yellowstone. Is that so we just sit back and shut up and let the billionaires be. Fk that.
Same way that tv shows glorify cops who break the rules and disregard suspects rights. It’s so that we cheer for cops who break the rules and excuse them for “doing what you need to do to catch the bad guy”.
They did it for cops so why not billionaires next!
Bob’s burgers.
Bob’s Burgers breathes class consciousness. There’s an episode where the kids are forced to volunteer through school, and the rich landlord makes no secret that he’s exploiting their free child labor to clean up his beach. The concept of collective bargaining is played with when the kids decide they don’t want to do that work for free. That episode also includes the lesson that the rich will absolutely use you and screw you over to further their own desires.
The rich landlord is frequently shown dicking around as if the people around him are playthings. In another episode, his tenants decide to hold a rent strike. The landlord uses classic divide and conquer strategy to turn the other tenants against Bob, the leader of the strike, via a water balloon contest (it makes sense in context.)
That’s not even touching the realistic struggles that Bob, Linda, and their family have to live with day-to-day. Despite characters sometimes being, well, completely wackadoo, it’s probably the most relatable animated show I know of.
Well put and I agree, for that same reason I really didn’t like the movie though. Its message is basically summed up as “you can commit murder but only if you’re rich enough.”
The brothers should have drowned in that submarine is all I’m sayin
The message should be a wake up call then. It’s saying “Look at the reality we live in - this shit actually happens”.
Normal people are boring. I want to watch TV shows about wizards.
But not the kkk wizards. And if so, be Rick and Morty chopping them into little pieces like the trash they are.
I’d be down to watch a dark comedy about kkk wizards.
New Taskmaster series just dropped with Jason Mantzoukas for us plebs.
Maximum Derek!
Game changer new season first 2 episodes just droped and its 1000% better than task master. Thats how a game show for us normal people looks like.
“How long can you keep a cat on your lap?” 0.02s
Ooh that’s another good show! They’re both good in their own rights.
Speaking of, Plebs was a great comedy series
I don’t keep up with current shows but here are my favorites from the last 20 years or so, not exactly about “normal” people but they aren’t rich:
Raising Hope
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica
Trailer Park Boys
Malcolm in the Middle
The Middle
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The New GirlTbh there really are a shit ton more TV shows about normal people than about rich people. Not sure how you are even having trouble finding them. And of course there are always game shows.
Raising Hope was great, especially the first couple seasons.
The wonder years?
2021 reboot
Buffy was 27 years ago…
I know, and thanks to the marvels of the Internet, I watched an episode last night - isn’t that awesome?
lmfao
“why doesn’t my compliance drivel feature class consciousness”
Right. Like, first of all, stop watching tv.
Second of all, there is tons of TV about normal people. Like, most of it.
Third, yes, the rich and powerful are overrepresented on tv. Why? Because people like to watch that shit. They know what their own lives are like, and they are boring - people want to watch a show that is interesting. Being rich and/or powerful is an easy way to make a story compelling, and gives writers an obvious way to make up ludicrous plot points.
Are we due for a new fat man, hot wife sitcom?
Roseanne reboot?
Do you think Roseanne was a fat man hot wife sitcom?
Yeah dude, you don’t think Dan was fat?
Grooossss
😂
What really resonated with me was watching shows like Roseanne.
The article then goes on to ignore The Connors which aired from October 2018 to April 2025.
Yes, if you ignore all of the shows about “normal people”, you’ll suddenly find no shows about “normal people”.
The Connors went on that long? I’ll have to check it out. I figured with Roseanne having gone off the deep end it wouldn’t hold up much longer.
Nope, they killed her off with fent, made suing the drug company a storyline, and then did like 5 more seasons.
Also Young Sheldon and the spin-off that’s still going on
Shameless: “am I a fucking joke to you?”
Since the wealthy fund the shit, anything to do with the commoner is portrayed as trashy, just above literal refuse with regard to usefulness, while the wealthy are portrayed as the righteous and just, with money to fix all the problems they face and any moral failings related to them is the result of something outside their wealth.
The biggest reason I dropped Succession during first season. I have no interest in watching some rich fucks and on top of that there is not one likable character in that show.
You missed the point of the show, they are all unlikable for a reason, and contrary to what you might think, none of them come out on top the way they wanted to. It’s a great show that highlights their petty, callous, empty little lives
I know they are unlikable for a reason. I just don’t feel a need to watch a show about petty, callous empty little lives of rich idiots.
Fair enough
Skills issue.
Japan has an incredible wealth of entertainment in their TV shows. I highly reccomend KASSO! Its ninja warrior but with skating they have English guests and translations on their YT channel.
Usually non US shows and Movies are alot better imho. Another something you should not sleep on are UK TV shows. Like: The Responder a show about a first responder who is struggling with mental illness and the pressure of his work.
So broaden your horizon, The industry is not as bad as you think
Japan has an incredible wealth of entertainment
That is a wild way to write “a few very bright spots in a vast sea of absolute garbage”
Am I honest opinion most things that come out of the United States are shit, so if you exclude the United States from your entertainment library you get left with some pretty good stuff. Just stop watching from sources that reliably produce bad content
I thought we were talking about Japanese entertainment
When it comes to Japanese entertainment the majority of “Foreigner friendly” shows are Anime. But if that is not your cup of tea you have a few good game shows:
- KASSO: Wipeout! but with skateboards, Has alot of western skaters too
- EXIT!: Think of the SAW movies but with celebrities, Its really entertaining to watch them speed run death traps.
- Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (Comedians doing challenges and pulling pranks on eachother) When it comes to gameshows the Japanese are leagues ahead of the west, Ive seen some batshit insane stuff come from these game shows.
If you are into overly absurt gore(Non Anime):
- Grotesque: Literal torture porn
- Tokyo gore police: This is just so insanely over the top
Good movies that arent gore(Non Anime):
- Survive Style +5: Absolute cult classic very trippy movie, guy mentally turns into a pidgeon in the movie too very funny
- Ichi the Killer: A yakuza enforce and a wanna be hero fight, it has gore but in moderation, is a cult classic the guy who played the yakuza enforcer is a legend
- Fukushima Daiichi: A realistic movie replaying the events of the fukushima disaster, With the same actor that plays in Tokyo vice: This honestly is an amazing film as well, really takes you into the hopelessness of an natural disaster, Its the HBO Chernobyl of Japan basically
Must watch TV shows:
- Tokyo vice: A western journalist moves to japan to work for the top news paper in japan but gets tied up with the yakuza Honestly this has to be one of the best tv shows i have watched in a while, it is so well put together you have some good actors too like the guy from Fukuchima Daiichi movie. Really takes you into both worlds, The police, Yakuza and Sallary man
- Giri/Haji(Brittish show): But also has alot of scenes in Japan: Tokyo detective, travels to London in search of his brother, Yuto (Yōsuke Kubozuka), who was previously assumed to be dead. Yuto has been accused of murdering the nephew of a Yakuza member, which threatens to start a gang war in Tokyo
I could give you so many more good examples but i think such a wall of text would bore you and im not sure if this kind of stuff is your cup of tea 😅 But i hope this gives you some interesting material to look at c:
I’ve lived here for 20 years, bilingual, it isn’t a language thing. Am aware. But most of it is total trash. I mean- even your must-watch TV examples aren’t produced in Japan.
I used to enjoy watching Gaki no Tsukai with my father in law every new years- I decided to bow out when they decided to start doing blackface for chuckles.
However, you are correct about Survive Style 5. That movie rules. All-time top 10 for me.
I also appreciate that all of your examples are labeled “non-anime” 🤣 Obviously, on some level, you feel me.
