• GaMEChld@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    24

    24 basically invented cinema quality serialized drama in a mainstream over the air medium. It changed television as we know it. And it’s just plain awesome.

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      4 months ago

      24 was highly influential, but the story just isn’t ever believable, and the amount of death and torture is absurd. I’m sure it’s a MAGA favourite, but for other people I think it’s mostly interesting as a cultural artifact.

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        4 months ago

        I think it was more popular than you give it credit for. Definitely not just a favorite of MAGA, that seems like a reductive claim.

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          4 months ago

          At the time, sure. But, I think fewer people look back on it fondly and think it should be recommended to people to go find it and watch it today.

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      4 months ago

      Ugh that’s not right at all. There were much better shows that actually fit the description you wrote, like Twin Peaks for example.

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        4 months ago

        Haven’t seen it, I’ll add it to the list! Perhaps I was wrong to say “invented” but instead “popularized” because it seemed to me like the number of new high production quality shows really started getting churned out AFTER 24 became a cultural water-cooler conversation level show that the entire country seemed to be watching. Then suddenly bangers anywhere!

        But that could just be confirmation bias on my part.

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      4 months ago

      Hard no. Right wing xenophobic bullshit. Sutherland should be ashamed he keeps getting these roles of American Altruism.