Iran would have made for a nice glass parking lot though.

Hamilton can barely be called rap, to be fair, and the vast majority of Hamilton fandom would not be able to name their favourite hip-hop album off the top of their head.

12 years ago we had Louis C.K. and South Park doing N-Word bits on public TV, because comedy trends at the time emphasised the idea of fighting racism by taking away the power of certain slurs through the use of shock comedy.

Regardless of how you feel about then vs. now, we’ve objectively swung waaaay towards the PC…

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Joke take: Dark is too white, unwoke, and hard sci-fi for the current crop of AVC’s hipster writers.

Also a slightly-less-jokey take: Dark is too white, unwoke, and hard sci-fi for the current crop of AVC’s hipster writers.

You would think that this uncompromisingly complex foreign sci-fi series becoming a massive …

“It isn’t a show that screams “the police are great” but one that goes “the police would be great if they were like this”.

That’s still copaganda though, just far more insidious.

It’s a bit like saying Gone With The Wind isn’t a film that screams “slavery is great”, but one that goes “slavery would be great if it were…

Yes and no.

The show is far less married to its setting than most sitcoms e.g. Scrubs, Parks And Rec, 30 Rock, etc.

They’re doing ‘cop things’, because the current backdrop of the show is a police station, but you could transplant the entire show into a hospital/restaurant/hotel/post office/generic office/etc. and…

It’s a very “Emperor has no clothes” kind of thing. J.K Rowling has been mocked for being a milquetoast neoliberal centrist since the Gay Dumbledore saga, but a lot of her fanbase are young uber-progressive ‘your fave is problematic’ Tumblr types who are insanely obsessed with Harry Potter.

So you ended up with…

nobody who’s actually considers themselves left wing actually use the word “Leftist” unironically

without the problem of a lily-white actress playing someone who was ostensibly born to Lakota parents.

That sounds like an interesting philosphical discussion on the nature of faith and symbolism, not an excuse to commit acts of terror.

It makes me rather sad that the South Park hate has managed to horseshoe theory its way from Evangelical Christians and the like in the 90s, to Liberal Wokies on Twitter and the like in 2020.

For what it’s worth, it is perhaps the last truly politically-transgressive mainstream TV show out there and I feel like things…

My bad, I completely blanked the fact it was one of the first major releases in colour.

okay, but...

Gone With The Wind == horrifying social evil that effects [black people] everyday ????

I eagerly await a film scholar’s disclaimer on how Crazy Stupid Love is an instructive relic of the misogynistic landscape of 2011.

“If he was gay and targeting 18 year old men, he would have zero defenders. Young female groupies are seen as inherently disposable.”

That’s a...uhhh...bold take.

Your first two points are correct, but LGBT community as a whole tends to be far more accepting of relationships with sizeable age gaps.

That’s not to say…

I like to compare and contrast Grammys with Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in that while RaRHoF has it’s own controversies and nomination bullshit, every artist that gets inducted more-or-less deserves to be there.

Meanwhile, the Grammys just feel like a perpetual exercise in getting angry and annoyed if you have any…

You’re allowed to look at the presentation of it all and be cynical about the extent to which those celebrities are just virtue signalling and stroking their own egos because they’re used to being the centre of attention and now they’re stuck inside doing absolutely jack shit just like the rest of us plebs.

No one is…

J.K. Rowling might have some shite views, but this comment is pure projection and a very shit take.

Oxbridge-envy is something you get over by the first two weeks of whatever posh and prestigious “Oxbridge reject” uni you eventually end up at, let alone decades later when you’re a billionaire best-selling author with…