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Some product placement can be cheesy no matter what situation it's in but I'd take a few moments of cheesy product insertion over the typical pattern of a US se
by ljm 8y ago
Some product placement can be cheesy no matter what situation it's in but I'd take a few moments of cheesy product insertion over the typical pattern of a US serial: 2 seconds of blackness (or 3 minutes of commercials) every 12 minutes or so, 20 minutes of story time traded for adverts, and dialog you would never encounter in a more continuous story because it assumes the audience is intelligent enough to figure it out or start from the beginning. It's mind-numbing in the extreme.
Bringing up a pack of Oreos and waving it around the screen so everybody can really see it's a pack of Oreos is one thing, but the endless trudge of scenes like this is something else:
X: "So you got the brief from the NSA?"
Y: "The National Security Agency, they monitor all the communications in the US to prevent terrorism... yes I got the brief. You bring in Mr Snucklebum for questioning?"
X: "Snucklebum, the man under suspicion for trading classified secrets? Yeah he's in interrogation, right through here."
- alarm bells, ad break -
Y: "Snucklebum's escaped! Lockdown!"
X: "Snucklebum, the guy under suspicion for trading classified secrets to the NSA?"
Y: "The national security agency. Yeah"
- rootlocus 8y agoI've always admired a show that can explain the plot and setting without characters having to say obvious, out of character, things to each other. Black Mirror is one such show.
- bmelton 8y agoLazy exposition is a plague in the industry, and is pretty prevalent in basically every broadcast show. CW and Lifetime shows tend to be the most offensive here. There are a ton of shows that let you discover the show along with the characters though; Breaking Bad, The Wire, Carnivale, etc. Those shows tend to be well regarded, and most people don't realize that it's just the lack of exposition making the people pay attention that they like.