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5 Reasons why TV shows suck now-a-days


1. High Definition cameras give shows an overly clean look, it’s way too sanitized looking and kills all sense of realism. If the environment of the show looks like it’s a fantasy world it’s hard to connect to the characters.

2. The casting is too diverse and unrealistic. Every show has to have one Asian, two Blacks, one gay dude, a handicap person, and one Hispanic chick. What happened to the good old days when minorities weren’t thrown into shows for the sake of being PC?

3. Way too many characters!!!!! Game of Thrones has like 100 characters for crying out loud, how are we supposed to care about any of them when many disappear for episodes on end or only get 4 lines of dialogue? Remember when shows use to be more simple and you could follow along without being confused? Well that all came to an end once ‘Lost’ came out.

4. Most Characters are no longer relatable on any level, they’ve become caricatures of themselves. Either the lead characters are perfect in every aspect or they are presented as complete morons, there is no in between. TV shows in the 70’s on through the 90’s had characters you could relate to in some way, they were more humble and acted like real human beings.

5. The Actors are too good looking, they all look like models and I find it hard to connect with them. Back in the day each show would have usually one hot female on board and maybe two at the most. Now-a-days even the middle aged mother looks like a Victoria Secret model and dresses like a teenager. We need more ugly looking actors and women with normal bodies getting selected, when I see a character they should look like some random girl at a drug store buying milk, not some Model looking Pop singer.

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Game of Thrones is based on a series of novels. That's why it has so many characters. It's not a typical TV show. And actually the show shaved off a number of characters and plot lines from the books due to time constraints.

I'm automatically suspicious of anyone complaining about diversity in TV shows and movies, and especially when they complain about "PC". It used to be there was virtually no diversity at all, which was frankly unrealistic for being set in various modern Western societies. The US is a hugely diverse country. And even now, white people get most of the major roles, while non-whites mostly only get stereotyped roles. When was the last time you saw an Arab/Iranian actor in a role that wasn't somehow about terrorism?

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...but, in the end it's always a case of mistaken identity---the Arab/Iranian actor goes free, the actor gets a check, the character gets a bigger check - the white man in the jackpot is cast down after being harangued within an inch of his life though he too gets a check, it's just grudged.

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The Terror had a lot of characters also. I still enjoyed it but you have to pay attention.

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I think TV shows are better nowadays, as TV censorship laws are more relaxed and the makers can get away with more. That's why I'm getting into watching modern TV shows because they're more ambitious.

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