No, but you're saying "Oh, people just miss the deeper themes" whereas I'm saying that it's a moot point when the show is such a clusterfuck of abandoned plotlines and characters that nothing has its intended effect. It's not deep.

I'm just saying that "oh you just don't get it bro" is a hell of a way to dismiss all criticism out of hand.

I have watched all of Hanmaid's Tale and I can give you an in-depth take on why I think it has no overarching vision outside of misery porn.

Main issue with Handmaid's Tale is that it feels like there's no driving force in the writer's room. They will start on plotlines and then immediately abandon them an episode later and characters who are set up to be huge players disappear with no explanation. It just seems like they wanna cover a bunch of bases at once and can't actually decide on what the season's "about" (This is the issue I had with the Candyman reboot movie as well).

Legend Of Vox Machina is bogged down by extremely lowbrow and unfunny comedy sequences, as well as rushed pacing (in part due to wasting time with said comedy sequences). Every single time I vocalize this critique, I'm hit with "So...like a DnD game????" (I am not being hyperbolic when I say I get this reply literally every time), which ignores the fact that A: They actively torpedo dramatic moments from the material it adapts for the sake of comedic subversion and B: You do not need to adapt literally every aspect of material and it goes without saying that lowbrow humor is infinitely funnier in improv than it is scripted for a number of reasons.

I stick with it because it has a genuinely good underlying story it's adapting and shows competency in adapting it when it's willing to take itself seriously. If the show hadn't gone with the constant "THIS ISN'T YOUR GRANDAD'S FANTASY SHOW" moments (it literally starts out with a "The Fellowship of the Ring died XD" style scene), then it might even have Invincible levels of good word of mouth and viewership.

It's less about the "real life" thing and more because they had no idea how to write an interesting show about Frank as President and Season 3 became bloated and boring. There were a lot of comments on this very sub about how people had trouble paying attention to Season 3.

No? I've known the Smith thing since I was a teenager.

Fun fact about the Fresh Prince, that scene was based in reality. Will Smith never met his father, and the line above was unscripted, as was the hug with his uncle.

Lmao nope, Will Smith knows his parents and has a tumultuous relationship with a father that very much raised him. The story above is posted fucking everywhere online though, despite being patently false and racially stereotypically. Gotta love the internet.

David Brent getting fired in the UK Office and begging to keep his job (he "breaks character" and you realize that beneath all the on-camera quirkiness is a man with nothing in his life except his position) is more poignant than anything in the US version (even if the UK version is droll and un-engaging at various points).

Are you implying that classic Hollywood films were like this? Audio was paramount in those films to the point that many stars were ADRed by voice actors for extremely minute reasons.

Maybe just don't record the audio on the boat like a lunatic?

It's because he refuses to do ADR like a sane person. Aiden Gillan talked about how he knew he was going to be mocked for the plane scene while he was filming it because he asked Nolan's DP "Are they gonna ADR us?" and the DP said something like "Oh no, Nolan would take that as having done the scene wrong." So the actual scene has the audio all fucked by plane noises and awkward line delivery.

My source is this interview, of which I can't find the full VOD for, but here's a snip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgOCCi8VQO0

Bravo Nolan, people are "conservative" because they want to hear important plot exposition instead of sailboat noises and droning booms. Truly an underappreciated visionary.

Okay? He's a worse person there lmao.

They became the same stupid "middle aged anti-villain power couple" you see on every fucking prestige show. Despise it.

Is he? He still blames Bran for "forcing" him to push him out the window and doesn't think of Tommen and Myrcella as his own kids. He's a better man than before, but he absolutely makes excuses for himself over and over and over in his brain.

You really wanna sit here and list of the menagerie of terrible things he did afterwards? Talking with show fans about Jaimie is insane. He's not a hero, despite the show writers trying to paint him as such, he's just a broken man trying to become a better version of himself, but he can only change so much. The books do a much better job of painting him as a vastly compelling wildcard compared to the "Jaimie's a hero cause he sorta feels bad about all the terrible shit he's actively assisting in" take the show goes with.

Right? I don't know why the writers think "Tough guy shows complacent locals how the real world works" would work with....Oklahomans?

Still better than 5'7 75 year old Mike Ehrmantraut twisting a guy's arm, which makes his two 6'5 compatriots run away while screaming "This guy's crazy!" And all the people watching take to YouTube to comment on how badass and realistic Mike is.