While most 20-somethings don't know better, many writing this stuff do. Tropes, however cynically served up, pay. Audience are reassured they have life figured out; TV is just life turned up to 11, to be viewed ironically because no one's life is *that* "real".
After a few decades of watching TV dramas, you reach a saturation point where you no longer have the slightest interest in how yet another 30-year-old screenwriter tries to portray 'family drama' or 'human conflict' or 'arguments'.
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Characters are irretrievably stupid or impossibly smart -- so you neither need worry you're the former, nor try to be the latter. Attempts at compromise, rarely seen, never go unpunished. "That's right", says TV, "You get it your way, except when the bad people won't let you."
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I think I was 28 or so when I was completely over it, just as you say. And I'm almost 44 now. No change.
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Try being the screenwriter, lmao.
Rippin your hair out in a balancing act of same-but-different repackaged in a story that should have appeal & nuance, sans egotism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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You should just watch Twin Peaks and forget about relatablepic.twitter.com/HWxB3W7ipm
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I absolutely cannot be bothered with imaginary people and their imaginary problems anymore. Not just on TV, but books as well. Classics and biographies/non-fiction are the only thing I've been able to read these last 2-3 years.
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And your real life dramas are more intense with very high stakes
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Mostly true
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Twitter is so much better.
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Agreed, it comes on quicker for some than others. I suppose a correlation could be posited there as well.
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