#modern TV

[soup--enjoyer]

Okay so there’s a trend I’ve noticed recently with live action tv shows where they play licensed music nonstop throughout almost the entire episode. Like it’s just constant needle drops in every scene. It seems like tv executives have now decided that you can’t just watch a scene without music, there has to constantly be background input.

And I don’t mean instrumental, I mean vocal songs from artists not associated with the show. I don’t know why this started, but I’m honestly really annoyed by it because there are a lot of scenes that don’t need music like that for any reason and it actively takes away from whatever’s going on, or there are scenes where I’m okay with there being music but the music they pick is just. Completely wrong. For that specific scene.

Either way, it makes me kind of angry and I hope it goes away soon because there are some shows that aren’t bad but could be improved with less licensed music.

[circleturk]

[gwarden123]

Also, this isn’t any show in particular, it’s a problem that’s fairly endemic across all modern media, but I really wish we’d get over this thing of wanting to make everything naturally dim. Especially in a scenario where you’re in the mythic and sacred place of your people, you don’t think we can have a little bit of heroic lighting?

[hellblazerserpent]

why do the majority of modern tv shows have to have promiscuity and drug use?

[bookhouseboy1980-blog]

What We've Been watching this month thingy (August 2023)

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[noodles-and-tea]

Back at it with my enchanted merthur shenanigans

[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

Sometimes I watch modern sitcoms and movies and wonder what stars like Lucille Ball would think of all of this.

[kyliafanfiction]

It seems to me that a lot of TV shows today suffer from like... seasonal confusion.

Like, because of the need to make each season feel completely self-contained due to binging and the lack of clear knowledge of what will and will not be renewed, or maybe just a change in focus in writers rooms, shows will often lurch quite a bit from season to season in tone, scope, scale, nature, focus, theme...

It leads to a fairly disjointed mess, really.

Made worse that half the time it’s clearly some network saving throw to salvage a show after some earlier mistake.

[vintagehomecollection]

Rooms by Design, 1989

[kiteparty]

Modern Dining Room in Philadelphia A large, minimalistic great room with gray walls, a traditional fireplace, and a metal fireplace is an example. It also has a black floor and tray ceiling.

[acamouflage]

Living Room Music Room Philadelphia A large, open-concept living room with a tray ceiling, a metal fireplace, a hanging fireplace, and a dark-wood floor is shown. A wall-mounted television and a music area are also shown.

[april]

TVs and monitors are separate species with common features, but which features these are have drastically changed over time. the two used to be similar sizes with very similar behaviour, and were differentiated primarily by which connection ports they had.

over time, their courses of evolution brought them closer together in that regard, with both species' survival becoming contingent on how well they could digest HDMI. as their analogue prey, such as VGA and Component, died out, the two display species were faced with the same choice: adapt, or die.

despite this newfound similarity, though, the two species still fill different ecological niches, and the way they adapted to these new environmental situations resulted in further physical distinction in other areas. for example, it is now almost impossible to find a modern TV that is a comparable size to a monitor; while the modern monitor is still limited in dimensions by the desktops where it prefers to nest, the modern TV has an almost unbounded adult size.

another strange new differentiation is that the TV seems to have developed a dependence on internet connectivity and software updates. while this benefits them in the short term, having more selling points than a monitor at first glance, it is working against them in the long-term, with each one's effective lifespan being cut dramatically.

the "dumb TV" that, quite intelligently, does not have any big software features, is nearing extinction, with very few members still producing offspring. and while we may feel sorrow for these displays, it is only natural that they are dying off - they are simply being outcompeted by the once-humble monitor. at the same size, and without the advantage of a wider variety of ports, the dumb TV cannot keep up with the monitor's much more refined adaptations for the same niche.

however, one mystery remains: why did the dumb TV never grow to the same impressive dimensions as its smart siblings? some observations suggests that the larger smart TVs have become overly territorial as a result of their decreased longevity, to the point that they will kill an infant dumb TV if they feel that it could grow to compete with them. it seems cruel to us, but in the wild, it's all a matter of survival. if you win the evolutionary race - you fight to keep first place.

[imdefinitelyfloating]

Paget Brewster in Modern Family

4x20 Flip Flop

[gwarden123]

Boy, I sure do hope they get out of this hole because I can’t see anything!

[comfortblr]

MODERN FAMILY (2009-2020) 2.11, “Slow Down Your Neighbors"

[prodboycat]

jesus touch by alexei shulgin & aristarkh chernyshev, 2014