[alienicecream]

Does anyone have a good explanation to why they continue to produce trash that costs hundreds of millions of dollars? Aren't they just flushing money down the toilet? I'm sure writing a good story is hard, but it's not like it's that hard to tell whether an existing story is good or not, but apparently no one at these studios can do that.

[jdksmdbtbdnmsm]

The only millenials who can afford to successfully pursue influential roles in content production are those with inherited wealth, which is a very small few. Talent is simply not very helpful these days, compared with class signifiers like which art school one attended. As a result, people capble of recognizing talent are punished for doing so. Such an equation will always produce bad, decadent art.

[surge]

I think the entertainment industry hit a bubble of sorts tbh, a lot of writers given free reign to do whatever with no oversight. You can write for a show that is largely panned and still get a second season. There's something else going on that I can't quite explain. But it seems producing things that audiences actually want to watch, or follows basic good writing standards, seems secondary to other concerns.

[andrei_says_]

I just tried to watch season 2 of Reacher - the one with the steroid bodybuilder guy.

A good story may be hard but a bad story as bad as what I tried watching is not easy either. I am waiting to find out if this whole show was written by a ChatGPT instance fed cliches.