Entertainment realities

I can’t watch Australian tv shows. I can’t take the accent.

We are officially in the dumbed-down version of life. I cant see how we aren't headed to a societal collapse and another dark age.

Thank you for telling us how sophisticated and cultured you are.

I agree with the OP. We have accepted and normalized crap as entertainment - starting with 'reality tv'.

OP has stated her boundaries.

[quote] Thank you for telling us how sophisticated and cultured you are.

Not likening an accent has nothing to do with sophistication. I don’t watch Jersey Shore, either because I don’t like the accents. Am I uncultured because of that? I don’t watch Long Island Medium because she’s a fake but even if she wasn’t, I can’t take the accents.

It's not the pictures that got small, it was OP's brain!

There's truth in that, but there's also truth in the fact that streaming, etc. has changed everything.

If you live in Bumfucke, Oklahoma, you can see foreign and cult movies with no difficulty. You're not constrained by three channels and PBS, or whatever passes for music on mainstream radio. In fact, you can listen to terrestrial radio from around the world or pick from hundreds of thousands of streaming stations.

You're not chained to the revival house or the TV because something is only going to be shown once (anyone else remember picking up the revival house calendar and plotting your next three months of moviegoing?).

But what we really need is an AI concierge to sort it all out. There's too much.