Don’t be (too) ashamed. What’s the slop you’re getting into this week? Games, movies, tv shows, etc.
I’ll go first I suppose. I’m watching Burn Notice. I’m on season 3 episode 3. Some of the dialogue is so painful I’m embarrassed to watch it but then I power thru it and finally get to a high quality action scene. Former spy works w former girlfriend, his mom, and a fair weather friend to solve some problems in sunny Florida. It’s completely believable and socially redeeming.
So let’s hear it.
i actually stand on burn notice, it’s campy but fun and the cia is maybe at it’s most correct portrayal in slopular media: an evil cabal that you can never get untangled from. also bruce campbell, who’s just a real treat.
‘When you’re burned…’
My wife and I will randomly say this to each other whenever a phrase brings it up “damn I burned the toast” “when you’re burned…”
I highly recommend the series Hanna, it’s like John Wick action, the CIA and the USA are unequivocally evil antagonists and they are explicitly using their secret super assassin program to plant child soldier sleep agents in places to take out left wing and anti-imperialist agitators and just regular environmental activists that are not even militant (though these are only noticeable if you freeze frame on a specific dossier from one of the later seasons that is otherwise just a generic intel plot device).
Agreed. I have cozy memories of watching it over summer break on the USA network, along with White Collar (I barely remember this one but it’s probably copaganda) and Psych.
White Collar is absolutely copaganda and also I don’t remotely want Neal, I just want his hats. And maybe his apartment.
The costume dept must have been the biggest part of that show’s budget
Same. Psych was a campy favorite of mine.
Looking back, all of the “characters wanted” shows were copaganda. Every single one.
another fan. dozens of us.
Been re-watching Scrubs. Gf’s first time watching. JD is really unlikable lol
I’ve been devouring as much non-toxic/minimally toxicBL manhwa/manga as I can get my hands on. It’s springtime and I’m gay.
My current favorite is Go For It Nakamura! This series makes me so stupid happy. From the aesthetic, music, humor, sweetness it’s such good food yumyumyummy. Also the character outright identifies as gay, which is rare in Japanese BL.
My guilty pleasure right now is “Everything for the Demon King Evelogia”
It’s an Isekai manga about a sex worker/gangster who gets shot and sent to the world of his favorite childhood RPG game. The MC is obsessed with the final boss, and meets up with the final boss “Eve” before the boss has reached his final form. The MC begs to be Eve’s servant and help him take over the world.
What’s so fun about the series is that the MC is a freak in a generic fantasy world. He’s crude/shameless/blunt and watching him interact with generic fantasy #34435 is really funny. The relationship between the MC and Eve is actually supportive and adorable. There is a lot of smut, but it’s broken up by an actually interesting story about breaking patterns of trauma and toxic behavior. I was pleasantly surprised.
oh thank god I’m running on so little sleep today I needed a BL to keep me awake
The Boys, tbh.
I know that the creator is a lib and that Frenchie’s played by an IDF goon but I’m invested now and I will finish my bowl of slop
the Ukraine line in the most recent one almost broke me.
You got past the part where they tortured a billionaire by giving his money to Elizabeth Warren’s PAC and Ukraine got you?
There was another earlier in the season and I just laughed it off because it makes absolutely no fucking sense in the context of the show’s world building
Ashley the VPOTUS screaming on the phone (presumably at Zelensky) “it’s your own fault you got invaded! You were wearing too short of a skirt!” It was amusing on some level but my god was it a reminder of the vapid lib mindset.
You’ve got this evil admin that is basically a coup of the “real” America where the fascist ruler is totally hands-off international affairs (the horror) and who in many ways (some of them pretty accurate) is a stand-in for Trump. But not aiding Ukrainian fascists is painted as this evil thing to do here, using the trope that epitomizes victim-blaming where the victim is widdle smol bean Ukraine against the vicious Russians.
I’m pretty sure in this silly world of their’s NATO doesn’t even exist since the US has all the supes, so Russia wouldn’t have had any reason to invade. I can’t fault them for not going into that kind of geopolitical nuance of course, but still, the way they do portray it is nothing more than “Russia just did that” no doubt because Putler, and their method for showing the audience how evil and narcissistic this Homelander-led admin is, is to show how uncaring they are of poor Ukraine’s plight, and how flat out unwilling they are to send military aid to Ukraine. That’s what is supposed to show us they’re obviously the baddies. They’re so evil and incompetent, they’re victim-blaming Ukraine! And they do this multiple times.
Whoever the showrunners are, they clearly have a deep and abiding hardon for Ukraine.
I feel like a thing that kind of has to be addressed here is that the early seasons focused on the horror that would be throwing a privatised military at foreign conflicts, especially when said military was a bunch of superpowered untrained manchildren who do tiktok dances. And now we are supposed to see it as horrifying when Homelander (And Ashley) pull them out.
Just watched some clips and they try to shove the whole “trump/chuds loves russia” which is weird cuz i thought in the early season the culture in the boys is permanently stuck on 9/11 bush paranoia
That’s mostly because the comics were written in the Bush era, as things have gone on and they’ve diverged more they’ve incorporated modern politics instead.
They had a point where they tortured a billionaire by giving his money to Elizabeth Warren
Yeah they’re forcing some stuff this season without any relevant plot points. Like when they stomped out that Nazi, that was great, but at least they had a plot to frame it around.
eh, it’s on the same level of finding hipstery ways to describe bad smells
I’m more upset that they are dragging their feet so much and I hope the last 3 episodes make some major changes to the world and move towards the climax
For all mankind. Pumped for the Anti Communist Propaganda of Star City that will nevertheless make the USSR look really cool.
FAM US: Electric cars, an 80’s green revolution! Safe, common nuclear power! Feminism and LGBT rights 20 years earlier! Things are so different that Ronald Reagan was a nice guy who wanted peace!
FAM USSR:
it’s 1958 but everyone lives in worn down 1980’s blocks.
It’s 1978 but everyone lives in worn down 1980’s blocks.
It’s 2008 but everyone lives in worn down 1980’s blocks
It’s so bad. I don’t think it was fully intentional to make the US look as bad as it actually does in the show. I had to stop watching after a few eps
That sounds really sloppy and delicious.
Tron, the original. I consume it once per night as prescribed by my psyche.
the new Diablo 4 DLC, i make the clicky and the numbers show up to tell me how good i am. ooh dopamine, very nice
30 Rock. Season 2 for some reason has a lot of queerphobia for some reason and it cleared up in later seasons.
The Jenna Marroni character is legit a shockingly horrible person. But Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy character is a great lampoon of CEO/capitalists. He’s actually based on the real former GE CEO Jack Welch, a particularly egregious historical figure. And honestly, him with Tina Fay and Tracy Morgan are pretty funny.
Fucking love 30 Rock
30Rock is a great show. I never got deep into it but every one ive watched has some funny shit in it.
I love 30 rock but goddamn has like 90% of it aged horribly
Yeah, Jenna’s character legit needs to be buried under the prison.
Jusr finished S2 of the Pitt. Not as good as S1 but still enjoyed it.
Finished The Amazing Digital Circus. A lot better than I expected.
Watched the new Running Man. It was terrible in an unfun way. Rewatched the original Running Man, it was terrible in a fun way but also unfortunate in an 80s way. Damon Killian reminds me so much of Donald Trump, it’s uncanny.
Watching Battlestar Galactica for the third time. Just watched season 2 Pegasus.
I made my gf watch the miniseries and she was loathed to admit that she really enjoyed it. So here we frakking are.
new star war maul shadow lord, as per usual with these animated shows the plot and writing is all over the place but it’s quite amazingly rendered. i’m talking very nearly Arcane art direction and quality. the team(s?) that do these shows have clearly gotten really really good at this animation style.
i wouldn’t actually recommend it, Maul’s character doesn’t work well without a comedic foil, he’s way too edgy. the heaps of action setpieces are indulgent and overwrought, the stakes are hard to appreciate when the important characters die in other media.
super pretty to look at though
haha my first thought on watching was “This art style has come a long way since early clone wars”
I haven’t finished but god I hope every cop dies. They’re all so goddamn annoying
Crimson Desert, it’s basically Assassin’s Creed but I can’t put it down
I just finished Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Not very sloppy, just devastatingly twee. For the real slop, I have been watching Lucifer. Not only is it copaganda, but I’m not even watching episodes as a whole, but as 30 second youtube shorts clips.
I’m still so fucking pissed how they butchered that TV adaptation. Nick Carey did an amazing job and they just threw out everything he worked on to make another CSI/Law & Order/NYPD Blue slop fest.
Outlander, the endless sad violins and bag pipes. The only thing that really bothers me with this one is the endless SA stuff. Otherwise it’s definitely slop that has gone downhill hard from the first two seasons.
I remember watching some of this show because my wife was into it, and being sorta shocked at how much SA there was and how gleefully the show revolved around it.
I dropped it after the first seasons because of this as it was resufracing trauma for me. We got back into it with my partner now largely because there is nothing escapist out there to watch that isn’t depressing or dystopian and we ran out of Star Trek. The SA stuff has just gotten worse as the show goes on. The show is also so weird about sex, there seems to be a soft porn scene in every episode, like it’s a mandatory part of it. It’s pretty cringe.
But the SA is genuinely on a different level, like the show tries to be schocking like GoT in all the worst ways. Definitely not great, very triggering.
Meanwhile the story has gotten very AmeriKKKan settler loving and yeah, it’s the sloppiest slop. Would not recommend.
Handmaid’s tale
