I'm sick of prestige TV. Its my second least favorite storytelling format, behind prestige (naughty dog) games. All prestige really means is that everything is drawn out, methodical, and the story has a massive interest in wasting your fricking time with endless shots of nothing happening; a technique used to make sure the lowest common denominator is able to grasp the fricking story beats, by bashing each one into your head for 30 minutes minimum.
The Sopranos, The Wire, Oz, Better Call Saul even fricking Breaking Bad to an extent strike me as amoung the worst offenders. And they are all so fricking dreadfully serious that when something funny happens, the best you can muster is a restrained chuckle. Stupid fricking montages siphoning 20 minute chunks of my life away drive me up a wall. 
Better Call Saul is the newest pile of 60 hour shit for normies to masturbate too and I really don't think any of these motherlovers will remember more than 20 minutes of post season 2 shit.
Brevity is the soul of wit. If you can't make a fricking simple story in under 2 hours, you're a fricking hack. You're not airing game of thrones, your making a prequel to someone elses original thought and take yourself so seriously that you made a 1 hour black and white hiest montage.
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20 minutes of Mike playing sudoku is kino you mongoloid. Apologize NOW
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I just want episodic TV back😭
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A lot of classic literature is all in the minor details combined with the quality of writing. Major plot points are usually secondary.
Better Call Saul, The Sopranos, and The Wire are a bad examples. They were always interesting through the environment, dialogue, characters. Only some of Better Call Saul like the 40x Cinnabun flashbacks are annoying. But having a movie level of content and drawing it out is still the biggest Netflix-era problem. At least old TV shows usually had episodic self-contained plots.
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All classic literature is written, and as such is slower and more methodical than most motion picture based media. Except the prestige TV show, which parses about 6 paragraphs of literature of content an hour at its fastest.
Peepeeen's Hard Times, Huxley's Brave New World, several Albert Camus books and even a Kafka novel can all be read back to back in the time it takes to complete a season of any Prestige TV show.
All of these books parse succinct, interesting, and powerful themes, messages, and observations behind and around their major plot points, in ways opaque to anyone with sufficient literacy.
The sopranos is about how crime is bad, psychiatry is epic and sacred, and freud is totally epic and dostayovsky made some good points. Has some fun character interactions about once every 2 hours.
The wire is about how crime is cyclical, endless, and based on material conditions, as told through tens of hours of procedural cop drama and also criminal drama. Also alcoholics suck.
Breaking bad is about how pride and greed are vapid hollow pursuits. And also everyone sucks I guess. Every 2 hours also contains a payoff between characters.
Better Call Saul is about how Jimmy McGill is a super cool scam artist who is epic and always does the bestest scams; and Mike is a geriatric james bond. Also literally speaks outloud the theme of revenge is pointless and not justice.
All of these shows are just the modern day Soal Opera, but with higher production value, and slowed down to a snails pace for r-slurs.
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look im gunna have 2 ask u 2 keep ur giant dumps in the potty not in my replys 😷😷😷
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Gabagool
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Like 75% or the Earth's surface is covered in flavorless Mountain Dew
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movies suck
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honestly kinda based in how you shit on all prestige tv. i get so many redditors saying "breaking bad overrated muh sopranos muh wire" like b-word i just wanna jelq
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I have no patience for it, they all suffer from being drawn out piece of shit disease, and I dont have the time for it
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For BCS, a competent writer could have worked to the bar hearing from s3 in like one season, or even a movie. People watch these prestige shows for the drip drip drip of great material, but they're constantly being taken advantage of by pointless cliffhangers, worthless side characters, subplots that get quietly forgotten, etc.
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The nothing moments are just phone breaks for the attention deprived r-slurs.
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Agree that movies are superior and frick better call saul
Secured my spot as a top 100 most memorable rdrama poster
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OP confirmed r-slurred
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neighbor you don't even know the proper technique to watch
breaking bad is designed to be watched on 1.6x on vlc
for better call saul, watch first 3 seasons (or whatever till the chuck arc), then watch season summaries of the next two seasons on youtube and restart with the season 6
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Absolute zoomer brainlet take wtf
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my adhd is not your punchline mister
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Ive watched all seasons. Chuck dies in like 2. The show is fricking miserable.
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