#prestige tv this and prestige tv that

[darkwood-hollows]

hot take but i actively miss when tv shows were like 20 episodes a season. slow down. let me get to know the characters. let them do something dumb and not consequential to the plot for one fucking second i'm begging you.

#television #movies #media #prestige tv this and prestige tv that #its not prestige when everything is???? #none of these streaming service 8 episode whatevers have anything on the sopranos #and that includes ones that i like

[stewykablooey]

AND BEST DRAMA SERIES LADIES WHO UP SUCCING THEY SESSION ONE LAST TIME

#prestige tv I’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER AND I’LL MISS YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING #succession #golden globes

[tomwambsmilk]

Can’t wait for the “succession was never actually that good” backlash after it sweeps the 2023-2024 awards season followed by the ~2030 “succession was actually deeply underrated” renaissance followed by the ~2035 “succession isn’t THAT good you guys are just blinded by nostalgia and also it’s actually pretty problematic” discourse followed by the ~2040 “succession is actually one of the greatest shows of the last 50 years and defined an era and had a lasting impact on prestige tv as a genre” consensus at which point it’ll be one of those shows everyone says you SHOULD watch and film/tv buffs take great pride in having actually watched and everyone else who hasn’t seen it already just says “yeah it’s definitely on my list” and then never touches it

#the life cycle of prestige tv discourse #succession

[deepspacememes]

my father was a tailor. in leeds. as was his father. and his father’s father. time was, if a man on the avendale road asked where he could find the finest clothes in northern england, he was pointed towards the shop of a man named rackham. THEN: the men who sell wool decided they would rather not compete with the men who sell cotton. and as the men who sell wool have the ears of the men who make laws, an embargo is enacted to increase profits. and calico disappears. and my father’s business - that he inherited from his father... and his father’s father - begins to wither and die. and my father suffers the compound shame of financial failure seen by the eyes of his son, and descended into drink. i’d sit beside him as a boy at the sunday services as he shouted at the pastor. at the altar. at anyone who would listen, really, about the injustice of it all. and i’d put his arm over my shoulder as the insults began, and i’d carry him out of the church GOD THE INSULTS. at his funeral, our neighbors were kind enough to whisper them instead of call them out loud. SO. i set to work, determined to rebuild what had been taken away; i was thirteen years old, but i was determined! until a man arrived at my door claiming to hold debts belonging to my father, debts accumulated as my father drank, debts he claimed that now belonged to me, debts i could not possibly have hoped to repay. debts over which that man would have seen me imprisoned... imprisoned in a place where the debts would only have been discharged through hard labor. hard labor at no wages, working at - wait for it - the production. of textiles. “you people. incapable of accepting the world as it is.” says the man to whom the world handed everything. if no anne, if no rescue, if this is defeat for me, then know this: you and i were neck-in-neck in this race, right til the end. BUT JESUS DID I MAKE UP A LOT OF GROUND TO CATCH YOU.

#monologues of all time #black sails #and then: a train heist scene??? in MY 18th century pirate prestige tv show??? it's more likely than you think

[rawliverandgoronspice]

I think what particularly annoys me with the "zelda was always gameplay before story" is that... it's not true? At least I don't think it's true in the way people mean it.

Zelda games were always kind of integrating story based on the standards of the time. When game stories were in game pamphlets, Zelda's stories was in the pamphlets. ALTTP tried to tell a pretty complicated stories with the limitations of the time. OoT was actively trying to tell an epic, cinematic tale packed with ambiance and expand what 3D could offer that 2D games struggled with. Majora's Mask is deeply character-driven in many, many ways. Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are both pretty concerned about their stories, down to the point that some people were bored by TP's cutscenes in particular. Skyward Sword, from what little I have played it, is very very invested in its characters and their journey (and 2D Zeldas have Link's Awakening, Minish Cap... None of them are visual novels, but they are concerned with emotional journeys, character arcs, mysteries about their own world...)

What is true is that the narrative wraps around the mechanics, and not the other way around. The mechanics drive themes, aesthetics, emotional beats and character journeys; and that's great. The world is a puzzle, and the world is delightfully absurd when it needs to be, full of heart when it calls for it, dark and oppressive when it suits the player experience.

That does not mean the games aren't invested in their stories. Even BotW has a pretty complicated story to tell about an entire world rather than one specific tale or legend --all of it at the service of the gameplay, which is exploration and mastery of your environment.

So. Yes, none of the Zelda games are million-words long visual novels that care deeply about consistency and nuance; but stories don't need consistency or deep lore to be meaningful and serve an emotional journey. Again: gameplay is story. The two cannot be so easily parsed from each other.

And Zelda as a franchise obviously care deeply about story, characters and setting (and still does right now --otherwise there wouldn't be a movie), even if it doesn't try to imitate prestige narrative-driven games, which is great and part of why I love this series so much. Doesn't mean it couldn't have done better in the past, it obviously could have, but I feel like pretending that nobody ever cared about story or character is just... false? It's a huge disservice to the devs too. Some of them obviously cared immensely.

The "gameplay above story", at least in the extent to which it is paraded today to defend TotK, mostly, is a really recent development. And I think it's one that deserves to receive some pushback.

#thoughts #tloz #zelda #the legend of zelda #totk critical #(sort of) #(I mean this is the subtext) #guys in 1998 nintendo was trying its darnest to make an epic story (with uhhh the writing that it got) #(love that game to bits but won't defend the actual writing) #the fully gameplay-driven game was mario 64!!! #I think this perception is also partially the fault of that “narrative game” category that is just.... kind of like Prestige TV but for gam #as if most games don't have some form of storytelling within them #and that coherence and vision and consistency are part of game design too #and will hurt a game's enjoyment if not handled correctly #a really really paired back narrative game is really difficult to pull off actually! #because you still need stakes and some degree of intrigue #so you need to figure out how to introduce this without walls of text and is it narrative design? is it game design? it's both!! #anyway anyway

[thealogie]

Honestly starz renewing black sails to infinity and letting them end on their own terms is even funnier now. No one I know who isn’t deeply online has even heard of black sails. People have heard of ofmd

#starz! the only remaining home of prestige tv

[bellamysgriffin]

get to know me meme >> Favorite TV Shows [23/?] Big Little Lies

I feel so ashamed for saying this, but being a mother, it's not enough for me. It's just not. It's not even close.

#blledit #biglittleliesedit #tvedit #cinemapix #* #gtkm4 #userbbelcher #cinematv #dailyflicks #big little lies #bll #userbirb #userrobin #singinprincess #tuserjen #usergiu #underbetelgeuse #rogerhealey #userleahrose #honestly my first intro to prestige tv and WHAT an intro it was #however.... i never DID watch s2 bc it just felt so finished #i want to rewatch s1 so bad

[bbyteach]

Hate ppl being like well at least there’s *edgy show with queer characters* *show with super conventionally attractive, young leads* or *show with both* like… not the fucking point?

I don’t need all art I connect with to be cutting-edge or ‘cool.’ I’m an artist that does a lot of horror/‘edgy’ work outside of this fandom space. This shows earnestness and whimsy and how little it cared about being ‘cool’ has been a breath of fresh air for me. In the sea of media that is banking on existing IP or bleak social commentary and true crime… this truly was original and interesting. Like. True height of queer media golden age. A warm light that doesn’t need to peak through a million layers of irony. Sigh

#our flag means death #ofmd #yes I like comforting things as much as horror and prestige tv #what a shit show #David Jenkins saying this wasn’t a ‘cool’ show made it cool to me

[phasmotid]

marty. buddy

#true detective #tv #rustmarty #rust cohle #marty hart #video #blog #copyright claiming me on twitter... they want to silence the common prestige television blogger.

[nativehueofresolution]

2x10 Bust-Out

#the relationships between fathers and daughters on prestige tv is something that can be so personal #tony soprano #meadow soprano #the sopranos #kaitlin speaks

[tanadrin]

stargate sg-1 is a deeply silly show, which is why I love it, but man just by virtue of having 22 hour long episodes a year to explore random high concept science fiction premises that don’t need to link up too much with each other, you occasionally get some really interesting stories. I mean not in season 1. Season 1 is kind of a boondoggle in the same way star trek tng season 1 is. but I miss mid-budget sf shows that had the room to spread out like that and really explore their premise.

#x files got to do it too #stargate sg-1 #prestige tv is so disappointing in hindsight

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Scarlett +39🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

#scarlett johansson #actrees #worldcinema #cinema #cinemetography #filmography #movies #film #comedy movies #drama movies #marvel movies #tv shows #90s movies #2000s movies #lost in translation #the prestige #ghost in the shell #jojo rabbit #marriage story #black widow #babystar #celebrity #happy birthday

[stewykablooey]

paying homage 🤲 succession ends tonight but ambigiousdisorder.gif you will always be famous

#we got prestige tv but most importantly we got this #succession #m

[evenlarksandkatydids]

if true detective s1 came out now the amount of rust cohle x reader fanfic would be insane. his tag would be absolutely clogged with “dating rust cohle would include…” and “rust cohle sex headcanons” posts.

#it’s for the best it came out in 2014 #true detective #rust cohle #THEE prestige tv sad wet pathetic poor little meow meow

[wulfhalls]

not kiernan shipka.....

im jumping of a building what are we doing to our beautiful queens 😭😭😭😭

#thats my girlie from the prestige tv era nooooooo #asks

[beansterpie]

rewatching LoK, i'm being reminded how much I dislike the.... the brothers, mako and bolin, yanno? they're such underwhelming characters on basically every level. it'd almost be impressive if they weren't in every episode and didn't annoy me so much ugh

#bean talking into the void #also this show in general is very flawed lol #cool things about it but the choice to structure it more like a #prestige tv show #as in each season follows One Story #is... i wouldn't say it was a bad choice but i feel like you can see the growing pains #switching over from the episodic structure of ATLA #s1 while flawed is solid #it knows what it's trying to do even if it doesn't always stick the landing #season two feels like a season-long filler episode LMFAO #which is hilarious because a lot of world-building stuff happens #but tonally it's all over the place #serious political plots interspersed with the B Plot following Tenzin and his family #on vacation??? #so fucking random #but anyway back to roasting the brothers #i find bolin just annoying in general his brand of comedy totally doesn't work for me #but at least he has like #a personality that's consistent #mako is sooooooo blah #the writers have no idea what to do with him and he comes across as having a strikingly boring personality #with no defining traits other than being wishy washy (and a boot licker) #it FEELS like he was meant to remind viewers of Zuko #at least in appearance if nothing else #another broody pretty boy to latch onto #but he has literally nothing interesting to actually get invested in #sure he's got his tragic backstory and he's the 'older brother who took care of his younger brother after their parents died' boo hoo #but that's all just exposition and it's barely shown in a way that feels illustrative or emotional in any way that matters #(other than him comforting bolin in s1 after he KISSES THE GIRL HE KNEW BOLIN HAD A CRUSH ON lmfaoooooo) #(what a good big brother lmfao)