Star Trek Discovery to drop F-bomb (at least twice)
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No. TV is in a Golden Age.
It's never been better.
I keep hearing that, but it's not true. At least not for me. I'd much rather watch TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, Space: 1999, Babylon 5, Andromeda, etc., for the umpteenth time than the vast majority of television shows made since 2005 or so.
The Handmaid's Tale is awesome. It alone makes this the golden age of television for me.
Your loss. TV Shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men and more recently Handmaid's Tale put those shows to shame.
I'd rather watch middling skiffy shows like Dark Matter than sit through B5 or Space:1999 again.
I don't watch anything with nudity, gore, nor graphic violence. Just about every television show made in the past ten years or so that people rave about has that, so they're completely unwatchable to me. YMMV.
Mad Men has none of those things. You should give it a try. Though I wonder about not watching nudity? You see that every day when you take a shower.
But, I find life gets pretty dull if you never expand your experiences. I used to cling to nostalgia. It got to be pretty empty after a while.
Oh! Fuck No! Fuck!
Plenty of decent to good stuff on TV that has little or no violence. I can only take so much of it, myself.
Oh, it does.
Again, it's sad that fans a show that tried to push the boundaries of it's day no longer want it to do so.
Star Trek was pretty graphically violent for its time.
And those Bill Theiss creations were as close to nudity as possible on sixties TV.
Like that time the Gorn got blowed-up.
Indeed. And loved to gets it's female characters as close to nude as they could. And Kirk too.
He blowed up real good.
. I legitimately burst out laughing. I imagined Leslie Nielson saying it in his typical deadpan way.I feel like people have been saying this since The Sopranos.
Most of the great shows of the past decade have ended or are coming to an end. The only one I've heard comes close is Westworld.
The Sopranos USHERED IN the golden age. You can go into deep cable and find legitimately great shows. My best example is davincis demons. A show that well reviewed, shot and recieved didn't even get renewed for a fourth season. Put a show like that in the early nineties and it would have been mind bendingly good. But in the current landscape? Pffft, didn't get renewed. It's not so much the upper echelon being great. Game of thrones, breaking bad, mad men, Westworld. It's about the lower tier shows also being amazing, American gods, pirates, santa Clarita diet, davincis demons. It's like a sports team, the more depth you have the better team you have. For the record I think American gods is that upper level
Westworld, Better Call Saul, Handmaid's Tale and the Expanse are all quite good.
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