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HBO just announced a new season of "Sex and the City" on HBO Max. It occurred to me that although I've never watched an episode of the original series all the
by commandlinefan 5y ago
HBO just announced a new season of "Sex and the City" on HBO Max. It occurred to me that although I've never watched an episode of the original series all the way through, I know all the characters names and their basic story arcs - the show was just part of popular culture when it was new and you couldn't help but hear about it. There's nothing like that now. My kids couldn't even tell you what shows are on - I doubt they could even name the broadcast stations.
- leephillips 5y agoReally? I don’t have that impression—part of popular culture. I tried to watch it once and lasted about four minutes. I’ve heard people refer to it a few times, but know nothing about the characters nor anything else. Contrast the Simpsons, Seinfeld, and Friends, for examples (the last also dreck that I never watched, but recognize as part of popular culture).
- thrower123 5y agoWhen I watch football, I catch some ads for the current CBS and Fox shows that are in the old money spots of weeknight primetime. They look absolutely awful, and I've never met anybody who has ever admitted to watching any of them. It feels a little bit like the Rick and Morty interdimensional cable episode.
- colinmhayes 5y agoThose CBS shows just look so wildly awfully. Last year they showed ads for the queen laitfa cop show or like the big bang theory at the end of seemingly every single commercial. I have to assume that only old people are watching this stuff because there are just so many better options.
- jedberg 5y agoI lament this fact often. We no longer have a shared cultural experience around media. Very occasionally something pops up that everyone seems to know about, like Squid Game or The Mandalorian. But it isn't like the old days, when anyone would talked to saw the latest episode of I Love Lucy or Friends or Seinfeld. There are so many choices and it's so fractured that there are no "big winners" anymore. But that's also a good thing, because the big winners weren't winners because they were good, they were winners because a network executive decided they would be winners.
- el-salvador 5y agoThis happens with music too. The Spotify wrapped posts with my friends are completely different, whereas ten or fifteen years ago we would have watched the same Top 10 videos on MTV a half a dozen radio stations that were not much different with each other..
- mFixman 5y agoI don't know what you are talking about. I can tell you the rough plot of Stranger Things, Squid Game, and Tiger King despite never having seen a single episode of those series. Shows are still part of popular culture, it's just streaming instead of timed TV.
- commandlinefan 5y agoHm, ok I guess you've got a point there. I took the post as being about "why TV Lost (to streaming services)", which I consider Netflix to be one of. But you're right - those are more or less "shows" the way "Friends"s was, more than Logan Paul and PewDiePie and the other stuff I'm too old to "get" that have replaced TV in popular culture.
- watwut 5y agoAll the kids know plot of Squid Game and stranger things (yes including 6 years old). They all still know about Frozen after those years.
- el-salvador 5y agoI heard all the kids on the other side of the road playing Green light / red light one day.