• FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    YES.

    Or shows where the characters are supposed to be lower/middle class but somehow afford all sorts of shit that is super unrealistic. (Think the cast of Superstore all getting super fancy halloween costumes every year and buying a new one every year eating takeout all the time and easily affording middle range cars when they work minimum wage).

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      9 hours ago

      That’s kinda the thesis of the whole article.

      Stories about rich people where their wealth is part of the plot are getting tired, but more insidiously, stories not involving wealth are still defaulting to very well-off people with expensive homes/furnishings/clothes/style/cars.

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      13 hours ago

      I caught a bit of Chicago PD a while back and was pretty grossed out by how blatantly it paints cops beating suspects and taking shortcuts in due process as not only a good thing, but as necessary to get “the really bad guys.” Also the episode where a scummy racist white cop randomly picked a black guy off the street to harass and that black guy ended up actually being being a rapist, murderer, drug dealer, or whatever.

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      20 hours ago

      Broadcast TV is basically cop shows, doctor shows, reality tv and news. I’ve heard more of each of these than shows about rich people. I think the article is an over-complaint.

      I checked my local ABC affiliate. News is on from 3am to 10am, noon to 2pm, 4pm to 7pm, and 11pm to 11:30

      That’s literally the majority of the day on news.

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        13 hours ago

        copaganda shows, generic MD shows and firefighter shows that should be on A&E. the copaganda ones trying to paint cops in a positive light is so obvious considered the networks are all owned by conservatives.

        nowhere near as good as 2000s LAW and order, svu,etc. House, Firefighter is a strange thing to put on consider there isnt really negative light about them. Also that one firefighter show with the same-sex inappropiate relationship trope(dating your co-worker.)

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    24 hours ago

    back when downtown abby was all anyone was ever talking about i was completely mystified as to why anyone would enjoy watching this dreck

    but people also watch reality tv and jerry springer. so whatever

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    23 hours ago

    The only shows I watch with rich people are where they’re miserable

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      13 hours ago

      i like the one “riches” where conartists pretend to be rich to grift. i dont think the show survived very long.