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Don't Destroy the Audience
People will comment a lot about the sex and, sure, I'll admit it's a huge part of this series but we all knew that coming in and if you're complaining about it out there: you did this to yourself. You don't have to watch everything, sometimes things just aren't for you or about you and that's okay.
This being said, that's never what bothered me (except maybe in the 1st episode but I think it's purposefully meant to shock you and disgust you at certain points so I won't hold that against the series bc I think it's intentional).
What I am gonna say, though, is the following: contemporary series productions work so hard to have huge plot twists and revelations and to surprise their audience (I'm staring right into your soul, Game of Thrones) that they forget the point of a narrative is to tell a cohesive story. The point of a narrative is for it to make sense.
Sure, it can be surprising and, by all means, when we have a mystery and so many stories overlapping and characters intertwined with each other, yes, surprises are good but after the initial shock the explanation has to make SENSE.
This "ending" that they gave us, though? It makes no sense. It kills the narrative, kills a lot of the characters and their arcs and what they were and makes the entire series a shaggy dog story that simply has no reason to be except that someone out there felt like wasting hours of people's lives on what I can only assume is one of the biggest pranks of all time.
It just... Feels like the people involved in creating this story (not the actors or the people in production but the writers and executives and the director) don't actually care about the audience, or the story they made themselves, but only about being mediatic and getting people on social media to talk about it.
Ig any press is good press, after all, huh? Well, it might be good press but it surely isn't a good series. Do with this information whatever you want.
This being said, that's never what bothered me (except maybe in the 1st episode but I think it's purposefully meant to shock you and disgust you at certain points so I won't hold that against the series bc I think it's intentional).
What I am gonna say, though, is the following: contemporary series productions work so hard to have huge plot twists and revelations and to surprise their audience (I'm staring right into your soul, Game of Thrones) that they forget the point of a narrative is to tell a cohesive story. The point of a narrative is for it to make sense.
Sure, it can be surprising and, by all means, when we have a mystery and so many stories overlapping and characters intertwined with each other, yes, surprises are good but after the initial shock the explanation has to make SENSE.
This "ending" that they gave us, though? It makes no sense. It kills the narrative, kills a lot of the characters and their arcs and what they were and makes the entire series a shaggy dog story that simply has no reason to be except that someone out there felt like wasting hours of people's lives on what I can only assume is one of the biggest pranks of all time.
It just... Feels like the people involved in creating this story (not the actors or the people in production but the writers and executives and the director) don't actually care about the audience, or the story they made themselves, but only about being mediatic and getting people on social media to talk about it.
Ig any press is good press, after all, huh? Well, it might be good press but it surely isn't a good series. Do with this information whatever you want.
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