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Me: supergirl, legends of tomorrow, 4400. Can’t really find good middlebrow normie mainstream stuff I haven’t at least tried before. These are all shows I tried and gave up on as too B-grade/mechanical before but am now lowering standards and watching. A-grade middlebrow is rare.
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Waiting for the post-Covid era of grimdark-everyman-normie shows. Superhero, “chosen people” type stuff will go into recession. Rick and Morty is the reductio ad absurdum of a 30 year cycle of increasingly ridiculous “I am special” narrative premises.
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2x2: Ordinary vs special protagonists, comic vs drama. Ordinary+drama was pretty rare. I actually can’t think of a single example of that.
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It's barely about football; I skip most game moments. It's about marriage, family, teens navigating, and a whole small town (complete with internal tensions & tradeoffs). It's just the most vividly detailed realistic portrayal of a town.
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