Sopranos is spectacular, Mad Men is really good and I like to sit back and have a drink while watching it. West Wing is like a really really good hate-watch. Aaron Sorkin’s mind is really something to behold. He sorta views everyone in the US government as motivated for a better US according to their ideals which is hilarious. He doesn’t really address issues of big money donors, sorta treats government work like it’s working at a club or something where it’s half work half palling around with cool people (as in the president of the US gets professional athletes to play on his team for impromptu sports games with other gov officials just because it’s a fun concept.) other than that I wanna watch Inglorious Basterds and Pulp Fiction bc it’s been a while and those are really cool.
I’ll defend all of these despite my better judgement lmaoo. West wing is entertaining. That’s it, it isn’t smart or informative or funny or anything it tries to be. But it’s still entertaining. I can watch 40 minutes of it, thinking all 40 minutes of it was horseshit and full of bad writing but I wanna see what happens next so I can laugh at it. Mad men is very very accurate for the 60s. A few family members lived through the 60s and they said watching the show was like a mini-time machine. So if it appears a bit sexist or racist on the surface it’s because that’s what they want to show you about the 60s what commercials and TV shows from that era wouldn’t show. If they show corporate greed and childish behavior from the highest up in charge, it’s because the media of US 60s wouldn’t have ever considered that to be ok to talk about in the open, so in a way I consider the show to be a time capsule of the 1960s USA, everything made out to be so perfect and cute while in reality there’s a circuitry of (mostly) unspoken hierarchies. Sopranos is Sopranos, a masterpiece of digital storytelling
Yeah I understand what you’re saying about Mad Men. I know about the time period and it’s depictions are accurate. My problem is it becomes almost too much like a soap opera. And for the time period they were dealing with, and the story they were dealing with, it could have been much more interesting imo. I think it peaked when they introduced (I can’t remember his name) the British character and they start their own new firm.
Yes!! The British dude introduced many key plot lines, and I don’t entirely disagree with that assessment. It DOES definitely have a few soap opera-esque moments, hell, I even watched one of those episodes tonight.
Sopranos is spectacular, Mad Men is really good and I like to sit back and have a drink while watching it. West Wing is like a really really good hate-watch. Aaron Sorkin’s mind is really something to behold. He sorta views everyone in the US government as motivated for a better US according to their ideals which is hilarious. He doesn’t really address issues of big money donors, sorta treats government work like it’s working at a club or something where it’s half work half palling around with cool people (as in the president of the US gets professional athletes to play on his team for impromptu sports games with other gov officials just because it’s a fun concept.) other than that I wanna watch Inglorious Basterds and Pulp Fiction bc it’s been a while and those are really cool.
I hold that West Wing is an AWFUL tv show. Sorkin is a garbage writer.
Mad Men has some good things, but some of it I can’t stand.
Sopranos is amazing
I’ll defend all of these despite my better judgement lmaoo. West wing is entertaining. That’s it, it isn’t smart or informative or funny or anything it tries to be. But it’s still entertaining. I can watch 40 minutes of it, thinking all 40 minutes of it was horseshit and full of bad writing but I wanna see what happens next so I can laugh at it. Mad men is very very accurate for the 60s. A few family members lived through the 60s and they said watching the show was like a mini-time machine. So if it appears a bit sexist or racist on the surface it’s because that’s what they want to show you about the 60s what commercials and TV shows from that era wouldn’t show. If they show corporate greed and childish behavior from the highest up in charge, it’s because the media of US 60s wouldn’t have ever considered that to be ok to talk about in the open, so in a way I consider the show to be a time capsule of the 1960s USA, everything made out to be so perfect and cute while in reality there’s a circuitry of (mostly) unspoken hierarchies. Sopranos is Sopranos, a masterpiece of digital storytelling
Yeah I understand what you’re saying about Mad Men. I know about the time period and it’s depictions are accurate. My problem is it becomes almost too much like a soap opera. And for the time period they were dealing with, and the story they were dealing with, it could have been much more interesting imo. I think it peaked when they introduced (I can’t remember his name) the British character and they start their own new firm.
Yes!! The British dude introduced many key plot lines, and I don’t entirely disagree with that assessment. It DOES definitely have a few soap opera-esque moments, hell, I even watched one of those episodes tonight.
I just felt like there was more there to explore, and they didn’t at all.