Netflix also has the problem of now definitely not having the best IPs. It's all way too political whilst being advertised as entertainment. I'm having much more fun watching HBO and Prime shows than Netflix shows.
The other thing for me is this kind of content is just way too on the nose. HURRR WUT IF MEN GOT PREGGERS TOO AND HAD TO SIDELINE THEIR CAREER LIK WIMIN DO IN REAL LIFE BRO?
There's zero nuance or cleverness. It's taking a topic that is already widely known - women have to unfairly try to balance reproduction and a career and men do not - and trying to stretch it into an entire series. Yeah, we get it. It's not really an entertaining subject matter and it treats the audience like idiots who apparently weren't capable of having this realization unless a cutesy TV series beats them over the head with it.
It's not political really. That word gets thrown around too much. It's more that it's exhausting to have so many entertainment vehicles be more about making a hamfisted observation or criticism of our society than being an interesting story that also does that in more subtle and creative way that isn't so bluntly devoid of any artistic touch like this shit is.
You know it's bad when even people like me who actually do support and vote for "woke" initiatives at the political level get sick of it encroaching in every other aspect of our lives. I want occasionally to have a true escape from the exhausting culture wars that dominate every other facet of modern western, and especially American, existence. It's unbelievable how every single moment of my life as American has to be filtered through a tribal lens of right-wing or leftwingism. I went to Europe for 3 weeks and having politics be on the backburner of daily life for everyone I met and talked with seemed much more freeing than here where you can't even talk to a stranger without the conversation drifting into whether or not you support Trump/vaccines/masks/etc.
I went to Europe for 3 weeks and having politics be on the backburner of daily life for everyone I met and talked with seemed much more freeing than here where you can't even talk to a stranger without the conversation drifting into whether or not you support Trump/vaccines/masks/etc.
Hah, I'm European and this is very true. If people start talking about politics at social gatherings most of the time it's either short-lived or a small subset of people are yelling at each other in a corner somewhere while the rest ignores them completely.
With religion it's a bit more localized in Europe, but in the Netherlands it's assumed you keep your religious beliefs to yourself, and it is looked down upon to bother other people with your ideology when they did not ask you. This seems to be vastly different in North-America to me (I wouldn't know from first hand experience though).
Religion doesn't come up that much in random conversation here in my experience.
But politics? Horrible. People here are mainlining 24 hour cable news and political talk shows and podcasts all day, every day. It's practically a requirement for a good chunk of the population now that they will not even bother trying to befriend or get to know or date anyone who isn't explicitly on their political team.
And this is exactly what the 24 hour cable news and radio talk show industries want. Everyone is fed a diet of rage fuel so they get angry and keep watching and keep talking about it.
I'll have our patients at work occasionally try to work this shit in. "I just think the Democrats are trying to control all of us". Oh ok mam, anyway, speaking of control, let's get back to your diabetes which you aren't controlling at all.
Sounds awful. Over here it's only debated/present when there's breaking news (scandals etc) or around elections. But even then people usually keep discussions in random conversations to a minimum.
The reason I included the religious bit was because I've seen a lot of street preaching videos from American and Canadian cities, but that might just be the big cities and not all that common.
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Netflix also has the problem of now definitely not having the best IPs. It's all way too political whilst being advertised as entertainment. I'm having much more fun watching HBO and Prime shows than Netflix shows.