Usually when I’m doing work, or chores, or anything, I like to have something playing in the background. I do listen to music, podcasts, and YouTube videos, but I always tend to run into a drought. I’m trying to find a series to watch but I’m having a hard time finding any.
I don’t like to spend my time scrolling on Netflix trying to find something interesting. I do use other means to stream movies/shows so I’m not limited by services, I’m just at a bit of a standstill for content.
If you know any communist media (movies, shows, etc.) that I could watch please let me know. Also it doesn’t have to be political content, your everyday sitcom or anime work as well. I’ve literally binged Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum so there is no pressure for recommendations lmao.
Atlanta is a show by Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) which is really great. Not exactly anti-capitalist (Glover was born rich sadly, and it definitely shows at points in a lot of his art, but I still highly respect him as an artist across the board) but takes some deep dives into portions of Black American culture and racial issues in America to a level I’ve never really seen a show take. Plus it’s fun, inventive with surreality, hilarious and emotional. Definitely feel it doesn’t get the attention it deserves but I could see it being very difficult for a normie white audience to digest comfortably, it definitely cuts deeper than the usual tepid liberal race commentary.
I’m sure several people have seen BoJack Horseman. I could see it as a love-it-or-hate-it type thing but I love it.
Season 1 Episode 2 of Black Mirror is hands down the best anti-capitalist critique I’ve ever seen on television, hands down. The first 4 seasons IMO are all really good, albeit bitterly dark and lean capitalist-realism sometimes moreso than anticapitalist allegory. By the last season the show was co-opted completely by capital but still worth a watch if you’re into it (which is deeply ironic if you watch S1E2).
The only explicitly communist movie I have seen is Come and See , which is older. Movie-wise, I normally gravitate to arthouse horror, dramas, period pieces, and the occasional mix of most everything else.
I have not seen many live sitcoms–at least not ones that I can widely tell the difference. My “comfort TV” is usually documentaries or Naruto. My partner convinces me to watch murder investigation/true crime and reality TV with her sometimes, the former functions to me like documentaries (the new Dahmer was good, and also pretty based) and the latter functions as a safari for me into insanity (I had a good laugh gambling on personalities and fun time psychoanalyzing stuff from Bad Girl’s Club to Are You The One? , latter which is probably similar to “Love is Blind” and which has an LGBTQ+ season if that is of interest). We also will on rare occasion watch free live TV because it is 1) propaganda so thick you can cut it with a knife, 2) completely deranged otherwise, and 3) glitches out frequently creating laughs and horror alike.
Since you like anime, I have not seen very many animes but if I really like Attack on Titan and Cowboy Bebop.
As a fair warning many of these shows are very dark as to be potentially concerning if one was in a bad mental state, particularly IMO Black Mirror and Attack on Titan. A lot of these might also be hard to follow while doing chores, but that’s also coming from someone who, if they are going to be watching TV, wants to pick up every small detail.
I’m sure I’ve seen a great show or three besides these but off the top of my head these would be my best recommendations that aren’t massively popular shows we are all already familar with (Breaking Bad, Squid Game, etc. etc.).