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The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

The new version of Prison Break has been greenlit. Hopefully it’s as entertaining as the first two seasons of the original but that they know this time that’s the time to quit:
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Yes, Facebook should never be a replacement for a real website, but on the flip side of the coin, a website is rather useless it it's one of those cookie-cutter Wix(?) sites that ALL LOOK THE SAME, just photos, color scheme, and text differences. And people use this laziness to be lazy about hat they put on the website. And many buttons don't work because they somehow managed for fuck up the cookie cutter.
 
Well, it’s set in the early 19th century which is kind of a problem…

So, two episodes in, and I've already decided to give up on it. I feel that it's not really interesting enough to merit all that violence. It's basically violence and torture porn. I already had difficulties watching Peaky Blinders due to the violence.

Between Taylor Sheridan and Steven Knight, it feels like there's this belief that Prestige TV needs to be these violent productions pushing the envelope for what's acceptable while desensitizing viewers. I miss the days when things were merely suggested which often would be more powerful than the acts themselves.
 
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