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Not Disney but I had the same feeling watching "And Just Like That" with my wife when it came out during COVID. The original series was in its own way pushing

Not Disney but I had the same feeling watching "And Just Like That" with my wife when it came out during COVID. The original series was in its own way pushing boundaries, but always fairly entertaining & lighthearted. The new series feels like sitting through an annual mandatory corporate DEI/respectful workplace training, with all the cringe and more. I used to go to church pretty regularly and the priests were less preachy. There are ways of conveying messages that even those in the audience who agree find tiring. Some of it comes across to me as GenZ being overly earnest and expecting their media to be the same (or people thinking thats what they want and producing content to fit). Sarcasm in the service of more subtle social commentary in the style of a 30 Rock type show seems to no longer be fashionable.

fakedang 3y ago
Reminds me of New Amsterdam. First season was quite heart wrenching in all the right ways, really nice storyline (lone hospital admin fights bureaucracy to provide treatment to everyone, in spite of personal issues). But they put out all the good gripping content in the first season itself, that there was barely anything to put in the subsequent ones. Instead, they resorted to preaching SJW stuff through the protagonist's different idealistic initiatives, some of which are so unreal that it's laughable in a sad way. My ex got me into that series, but even she gave up by season 3, and she's one of the most liberal left-leaning persons I've met.
- skeeter2020 3y ago
  You see this all the time with new series that have one season to prove their worth, get picked up and then the creators/writers go "how are we going fill the next 3 seasons with 5 episodes worth of medicore content?"
  - lotsofpulp 3y ago
    The sellers’ goal is achieving a reliable income stream at the lowest cost, which dampens risk taking. The buyers’ goal is to receive something which surprising and new, which means risk taking. Trying to make balance both is the trick, and few media companies have the executives and management skills to pull it off.
vasco 3y ago
> GenZ being overly earnest Why do you say this?

fakedang 3y ago

Reminds me of New Amsterdam. First season was quite heart wrenching in all the right ways, really nice storyline (lone hospital admin fights bureaucracy to provide treatment to everyone, in spite of personal issues). But they put out all the good gripping content in the first season itself, that there was barely anything to put in the subsequent ones. Instead, they resorted to preaching SJW stuff through the protagonist's different idealistic initiatives, some of which are so unreal that it's laughable in a sad way. My ex got me into that series, but even she gave up by season 3, and she's one of the most liberal left-leaning persons I've met.

skeeter2020 3y ago
You see this all the time with new series that have one season to prove their worth, get picked up and then the creators/writers go "how are we going fill the next 3 seasons with 5 episodes worth of medicore content?"
- lotsofpulp 3y ago
  The sellers’ goal is achieving a reliable income stream at the lowest cost, which dampens risk taking. The buyers’ goal is to receive something which surprising and new, which means risk taking. Trying to make balance both is the trick, and few media companies have the executives and management skills to pull it off.

vasco 3y ago

> GenZ being overly earnest Why do you say this?