A lot of people - by people I generally mean men, especially men on this website - genuinely think that "highbrow = good, lowbrow = good, middlebrow = poison" is their ideal for evaluating art
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I get the feeling that a lot of hipster douches actively *dislike* that "middlebrow" shows get everyone talking about artistic shit "Ugh I don't wanna hear Basic Becky talking about coping and grief about some shit she saw streaming on Disney+"
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"This is something I should be discussing with my COOL friends about an off-Broadway play or an Elliot Perlman novel at our book club" Okay well fuck you too man
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Big "Jonathan Franzen complaining he doesn't want The Corrections on Oprah's book club" energy
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I think a lot of people forget that the "middlebrow" is where complex ideas can enter the mainstream. Lowbrow doesn't bother tackling them and highbrow can make it too complex. The Good Place is middlebrow, but it's a shockingly detailed primer on philosophy, for example.
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Wrapping a complex, emotional concept up into something easy to digest and understand is the best way to spread it. But a lot of the people who praise highbrow stuff tend to be really gatekeepy about it and don't actually like it when their thing becomes mainstream.
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Also if Lynch did "Twin Peaks" NOW the way he did when it came out it'd be 'too mainstream' and (some) of the same criticism would be coming for it
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A lot of the backlash for S3 is how aggressive it was about not adhering to the approach of the original. The original started out weird and strange, but it's turned into full on comfort food for a lot of people. That's fine, but more of the same would have been pointless.
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I dunno. Watching the show develop this perfect apparatus for delving into Wanda's grief, this weird sitcom world where her past slides in and out and where she's never comfortable, and then watching them abandon it for... that, it's not great.
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My mind keeps cycling over and over on that decision to have Wanda's past trauma adventures happen with Agatha as her guide, a person with no interest in what's happening on screen. And that lack of interest isn't even particularly used for something cool. It's just there.
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