Declan Finn #wingnut #racist #fundie declanfinn.substack.com
[Commenting on the New York Times “100 best TV shows of the 21st century” list]
It’s nice to see the left continues to worship evil.
Don’t believe me? Look at what they consider “best.”
Breaking Bad? “Hey, see this cancer patient? He’s really a dick with a lousy family. Any sympathy you have for him? Well, we’re going to turn him into Pablo Escobar. Enjoy!” When the most moral / ethical character in the show is a hitman—who, by the way, is not the protagonist—there are a few issues here.
The Wire, of course, makes black gang bangers look civilized, instead of the thugs they are. Why else would they hire an actor with enough charisma and gravitas as Idris Elba to play Stringer Bell? After all, he plays the civilized gangsta. He’s just running it as “a business.” He’s well-spoken. And like Michael Corleone, it’s just business. What’s the harm in that? And the cops, of course, look more like thugs than Stringer does.
[My wife corrects me and tells me everyone looks terrible at the end. Cops, teachers, and policemen, amen. We all sinners in God’s garden. Like all communists, the Times sees people as corrupt, needing The State to come in and crush sin.]
Mad Men is meant to portray the 50s as some sort of misogynist dystopia.
Meanwhile, Handmaid’s Tale is the misogynist dystopia, and portrays Christians as sharia law Muslims. That’s a slander the Times can get behind.
Girls, of course, is the proto-Lindsay Clancy program, where ugly, vile sociopaths are considered enlightened, attractive protagonists.
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30 Rock was more leftist agit-prop disguised as comedy.
The Americans made the communist spies into the heroes, because evil Americans get what’s coming to them—and of course, our protagonists love communism more than their own children, that’s what’s important.
House, MD, because lawful evil is evil enough for them. He might cure your disease, but he’ll do his best to destroy the rest of your life too, because everyone lies, and no one is a good person. At all.
Fleabag … you know what? The less said about that, the better.
Oh, yes! The Pitt is one of the bestest shows of all time! … The Pitt debuted LAST YEAR. But hey, The Pitt had an episode where ICE were portrayed as the Gestapo.