There's a genre of show that appeals to foids, what I call the "Wunder-butthole" genre. Where some cerebral genius effortlessly dominates his field of expertise, most of the episode showcases him berating his co-workers and yelling at anyone who opposes him. He gets to break the rules while others don't, and suffers little consequences for it. Also he usually has a soft and agreeable homosexual-coded male best friend. His eccentricity is tolerated because he's that good. House, Mr Robot, Sherlock, the Mentalist, Dexter, Psyche, all fall under this genre.
Are these shows mostly subtle sexual coombait for women? I mean the mystery aspect is often comparatively shallow compared to actual investigation shows. Large portions of the show are dedicated to literally the cycle of some plebian normal having an opinion, the wunder-genius yelling at him or mocking him, the plebian normal trying to argue back, the wunder-genius publicly humiliating him, and then the pleb slinking away. Oftentimes there's a self insert woman that's close to the wunder-butthole who doesn't get treated quite as mean, and just pouts the entire time the main character breaks the rules and tags along. Over the years I've noticed women drawn to these shows while men have been for the most part indifferent.
I ask because nobody else really seems to make this connection. Nobody even seems to talk about how the target audience for this slop is middle aged women either, the same target audience for serial killer slop, in fact, Dexter is both serial killer slop and wunder-butthole slop. But to me it's always seemed really obvious the butthole braggart aspect of the characters is the main appeal of the shows, women get turned on when powerful men get to talk down to other people. And that's it, all the plot contrivances are to just have a repetition of that play out over several seasons.
I first clicked onto it when I was talking to a teenage girl about the Marvel movies and she mentioned being attracted to Dr Strange. I said "He's just an butthole" and she was like "yeeaaaah... but I really like that". She wasn't as drawn to Captain America, Thor or all the other ones that are more conventionally attractive, she was drawn to the smart sardonic butthole that berates people. After that I looked into the slop women consumed with that in mind, and seen these butthole characters everywhere.
Am I wrong? I don't think I am.
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pretty good
one of the worst shows of all time
hot fricking garbage
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unforgivably shit
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!kino carp in depth review
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We can't be friends anymore carp. Mr. Robot was amazing.
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Mr. Robot was indeed amazing
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so, is there a * Mrs. * robot?
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the character from Mr Robot is so immediately unlikeable
"I'm brooding and a loner and I hate the corporations and also I'm good at the hacking the mainframe and I run Linux"
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Isn't Psyche really just a comedy? I guess it has dramatic elements at times but the few episodes I've seen were definitely comedy first and everything else second.
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Sherlock Psych are the best shows on earth, Mentalist is ok sleep watching slop, house is overrrated
you are just wrong
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tenor is cringe and will kill this site
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The Mentalist was a surprisingly good murder of the week show, back when CBS made heaps of them and things like it and Without A Trace were far better than they needed to be. It had an overarching mystery that only got bogged down in later seasons, and spent most of its time churning out tidy little mysteries that were fun to watch. Hardly essential, but fun.
It also doesn't fit the category, though I agree the category exists. The main guy is well-natured rather than the butthole of the archetype.
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Like with basically every show sadly, the romance plot gets hinted at for too long without going anywhere, and Red John plot is stretched way too thin. And the last season, while not completely terrible, has no reason to exist.
Would've been great as a 3-4 season show.
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They could have ended it after the Bradley Whitford season finale and it would have been remembered for its audacity.
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I liked that the moral of the story was that revenge is sweet. I was concerned it would follow the modern trend that revenge is not nice so you should be a cute twink instead.
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I've never watched Psych but everyone who recommended it to me had shit taste.
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I liked it when I was young but wouldn't rewatch nowadays, the humor relied a lot on references, most of which I probably didn't get honestly, and fair bit of cringe/weirdness, I'm afraid it wouldn't hold up to my current taste.
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Mr Robot was basically a left wing version of Fight Club that went on for waaaaay too long
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This is why rdrama has their own house (
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If you take all of these carp scores and invert them it's spot on
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Sherlock was unironically amazing when it came out in like 2010
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I remember when House could assrape a patient on TV for the sole purpose of inflicting pain/humiliation and people would cheer because the victim was a peepee to House. Then the assrape victim became the villain for the entire season for trying to bring House to justice. Wild times.
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Google AI is trying to run cover for the good Dr. House
Frick you AI. They specifically show that House inserts the thermometer for a non medical reason and makes it hard to remove while leaving him.
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Based off the last sentence the AI might be confusing the Tritter episode with the r*pe victim in the clinic episode.
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That last sentence is the main reason I bothered with the screenshot
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Those arcs never worked. They'd try to bring in an adversary, and he'd be completely in the right, and House never had to show humility or apologise, he just got out of whatever the trouble was.
Except for the Cutthroat B-word storyline the ongoing plots for House were pretty bad.
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Seasons 1-3 are kind mid because of the story arcs. I always found it funny that house is the only show where people rave about the later seasons and hate the early ones.
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But the Three Stories episode is in the first season, easily the best episode. But yes, it seems they preferred Chase and Cameron to be on the sidelines, no matter how much they were considered main cast after the first two seasons.
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It's a power fantasy for neurodivergent and anti-social nerds.
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I think House was made for Dudes Only. Sadly, the marginal foid audience agreed, as per usual.
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rdrama try not to hate foids challenge (impossible)
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TOTAL FUJO DEATH
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I saw 'wunder-butthole' and a graphic for the show Sherlock and thought this was going to be about gay slash-fiction.
This post is even worse.
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I love smart characters written by stupid people so much.
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They are all basically Sherlock adaptations though
I love sucking peepee -
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Even True Detective has traces of Sherlock Holmes DNA. It's about a brilliant, extremely eccentric, sardonic guy and a not so smart but more emotional sidekick who team up to solve weird crimes. Although to be fair, Watson is actually amiable, whereas Marty from True Detective is mostly just an butthole.
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House is medical Sherlock Holmes. It's why he's called House, because Ho(l)mes.
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God why has no one made a Dr. Homes spoof.
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Everything you said is true
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This one is a bit different. Shaun is a dumb guy with one uncanny skill (hyper observant) who is written by smart people.
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With my foid, the genre is "someone with a special skill solves a mystery". So Mr. Robot and Dexter don't count; but the others named do. Perception, White Collar, Limitless (tv show), Numb3rs, Eureka (the special skill is being r-slurred, a fun twist), and Monk are all in that category too. Ultimately we will watch every show in this genre because I enjoy it a lot more than Hallmark slop.
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Monk is fun and I won't hear otherwise.
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Lie To Me is really fun, Tim Roth is exceptional and it's not quite as cliche as most others
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Eureka is great. Sad the main actor is relegated to being the spokesman for Maytag now.
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and 13 year old boys
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Mr Robot doesn't actually fit in this genre because it's heavily implied he's delusional.
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The whole show is just a coverup for Elliot being a perv
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I never watched the show, I just seen clips on youtube when he hacks and owns p-dophiles and other people.
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Dunno, I like Sherlock Holmes adaptations like the Jeremy Brett ones and I'm a guy. I kinda like Elementary too, though that one got repetitive. There's only so long looking at Lucy Liu's legs can make up for repetitive episodes.
Also, if Anton Chigurh is so smart why doesn't he just use a gun?
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He does, several times. Did you watch the movie? Are you r-slurred?
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