Armchair Critics - Let's Talk TV

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Despite my ever waning interest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as one of the few remaining characters I'm even remotely interested in, I decided to give Loki Season 2 Premiere a shot... YAWN!!! 45 minute episode for what should've been a 5 minute sequence in a movie... Won't bother with watching any more of it...

They're churning out an awful lot of shite these days purely for the sake of it I find.

Sometimes I wonder if its just me, because I've become awfully jaded with "Must See TV" in general in recent years - I watched the first seasons of Succession and Yellowstone because people kept telling me I "just had to" watch them, and it was just a chore, overly long episodes that kind of plod along that rely more on high calibre acting and great cinematography than anything of substance such as likeable characters or interesting stories. (Also with those two shows in particular - am I the only person on the planet who has zero interest in watching morally corrupt rich characters being awful to everyone around them and bitching about how awful it is to only be multi-millionaires rather than multi-billionaires???  )

Plus add superhero fatique on top of that and I shouldn't be surprised that I wasn't enthralled by Loki's latest outing, but on paper the God of Mischief + Time Travel should be a home run. The first season was mostly decent, so I thought I just might enjoy the second, but nah it's merely another exercise in churning out mediocre content for the masses.

Conversely, I'm rewatching several '90s and early '00s sitcoms these days, including Will & Grace, Everybody Loves Raymond, The King of Queens, and 3rd Rock From The Sun, and its like a breath of fresh air compared to the current doom-and-gloom scripted TV landscape. Every 20 minute episode has a beginning, a middle, and an end, its a nice easy watch, has plenty of laughs and likeable characters, and they just don't make nice simple shows like these anymore which is a shame.

In retrospect, this probably belonged in the Rant Thread, but it fits here too I guess...