I agree.  I have wound up watching some Disney Channel and Nickelodeon shows with my kids, and they’re nowhere near as good as NHIE. 

I admittedly know little about Disney shows myself, but NHIE seems much sharper, darker, and more explicit than anything you’d get from Disney. Devi’s character is allowed to go places that teenage girls aren’t usually allowed to go (the rage! the horniness! the unapologetic ambition!) and the writing (goofily)…

Why shouldn’t they? Disney channel sitcoms are fun and silly.

Game of Thrones is just as ridiculous as the average Disney channel sitcom but it’s considered prestige viewing for smart people.

One thing I’ve noticed is think pieces about middle of the road shows tend to talk down to viewers. Maybe the viewers of The Closer or Blue Bloods or Yellowstone aren’t interested in think pieces, but they certainly aren’t interested in think pieces that assume they’re idiots. No one wants to read a think pieces that…

Paramount Network can’t be THAT hard to find considering it gets more viewers than everything at NBC, ABC, Fox, and even CBS.

Winter Falcon got nailed HARD by Covid; allegedly the Flagsmashers subplot was supposed to revolve around them releasing a virus, which had to be retconned in a real quick manner. 

Here are the Top 10 Scripted Shows (i.e. no news magazine shows, sports, or reality/competition shows) by average number of viewers among the Big 4 networks right now:

SNL is still popular and still has a huge presence in pop culture. The fact that there’s recaps shows that it at least drive clicks, something shown by the fact there’s dozens of rv shows that should be recapped but aren’t because the Powers That Be have deemed as not click worthy of bough to do recaps for 

But it is weird to think about those 10 million people spending an hour each week sweating out the twists and turns of such an ambitious, sweeping contemporary western… and then hopping on the internet to read more and finding little.

It’s also why this site and other news blogs like it religiously cover and follow SNL even though it hasn’t been good or that massively popular in years, while at the same time, how they totally ignore and don’t write endless think pieces either about other popular shows that the masses love like Money Heist, Queen of…

Critics are often out of touch. It isn’t just critics, but a lot of people in and around the industry lose perspective on the real world or get caught up in all the inside baseball. It doesn’t help whn most of a critic’s social interactions are on Twitter. Twitter is not representative of the the real world, but…

I watched the first episode two weeks ago, and I burned through the first season in a few days. It’s not a great show, but it’s compelling enough to make me want to know what’s going to happen next.  

Yeah, the subheading notes that it gets more viewing than “most network shows”, but those popular network shows don’t tend to generate a lot of thinkpieces either.

My 19 year old daughter watched it. She just binged all three seasons during the first few days of break. She thought it was good in a “holy crap I can’t believe they just did that” and “I’m never going to Montana” kind of way. She described it as an excessively violent, somewhat well-shot soap-opera set in the…

I don’t know, but here’s my guess: The viewership trends older, and most advertisers view anyone outside the 18–49 demographic as nonexistent, therefore, there’s less buzz behind the show. I’ve only watched a few episodes. Everyone is always punching one another.

Its culture war stuff that stops it being written about much. Too conservative and “boomer” for most entertainment writers to want to grapple with but not Trumpian enough to generate hate pieces.

“Why is this thing that’s not explicitly pandering to me not living up to my expectations?”- person who has never had to feel this way before.

With the exception of one role, I thought the acting on FWTS was uniformly excellent, much better than I had expected compared to some MCU material, and often lifted some spotty writing. So that makes me a bit more interested in where they will go...but tighter writing would be a benefit.

Agree on that Loki take. I found Loki much more satisfying over the other MCU series. It was a fairly consistent and interesting experience, building to something larger in the end. Whereas I have a few issues with WandaVision (the slow first two episodes, skybeam finale, Ralph Boner). Hawkeye was fun, although the…

There’s a strong bias on the list toward new shows. So it goes for a pop culture tabloid site, I guess: whatever new product it coming out is hyped up and celebrated, and anything in its second year or later is niche appeal at best. There’s so much new shit that one can’t keep up with it all.