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And/or people have started behaving according to the standards set in the show because they assume that everyone is that cynical. This is kind of what worries b
by arp242 3y ago
And/or people have started behaving according to the standards set in the show because they assume that everyone is that cynical. This is kind of what worries be about these extremely cynical satires and depictions.
On the other hand, it's not like politics is better in the US which had The West Wing, which is very aspirational and not cynical at all so idk...
- bobthepanda 3y agoI mean if you want to talk about cynical, Veep really went off the deep end as a comedy, which was good for the show, but also unfortunately life is imitating art.
- arp242 3y agoIt's not my impression that Veep was/is all that widely known? I just heard about it because it's the US version of The Thick of It, but then again I'm not in the US. And just like the US version of House of Cards, it's also much newer. There isn't that long of a tradition of cynical satire as in Britain going back to at least the 80s (Yes Minster, Spitting Image, House of Cards, The Thick of It).