The "Wunder-Butthole" genre is subtle foid coombait and nobody talks about it

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.

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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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House

pretty good

Mr Robot

one of the worst shows of all time

Sherlock

hot fricking garbage

the Mentalist

no idea

Dexter

unforgivably shit

Psyche

no idea

!kino carp in depth review


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Sherlock was unironically amazing when it came out in like 2010

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one of the worst shows of all time

We can't be friends anymore carp. Mr. Robot was amazing. :marseyindignant: :chapose:


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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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>Sherlock

>Best show on earth

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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 (@Garry_Chess)

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If you take all of these carp scores and invert them it's spot on

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