Is it just me aging or has mass entertainment gotten more and more tropey over last 2 decades? Books as much as movies/tv.
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Golden Age of TV increasingly feels like Golden Age of pitch perfect trope machines 🤔
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I am now looking for fiction in all media that sacrifices narrative perfection for narrative experiments even if rough-edged
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Bojack Horseman S2 and S3 have some dark and experimental stuff going on. S1 is also awesome but doesn't hit stride until E5ish
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i'll take a shot in the dark and recommend the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. you can commence eye-rolling if applicable.
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The Wachowskis' Sense8 hit this for me. Oscillated wildly between hating and loving it. Still not sure which, but have thought about it
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try anime. It's cheaper and faster so there's a lot more experimentation. For example: FLCL vs Gargantia
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here's a word "shandification" for building a story by following every distraction (breadth first search) youtube.com/watch?v=wvwlt4








