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please_and_thankyou t1_j6gmgf3 wrote

Reply to What are your favorite love stories in TV shows? by MarkBrandanoquitz

Detectorists — Terry & Sheila are so in love and supportive throughout. They are older and have pasts, but endlessly support and admire each other.

on the eve of a big event:

RUSSELL Where will you be?

TERRY Sheila and I have a prior engagement.

LANCE What? Where are you going?

TERRY Lindy hop.

LOUISE Can’t you forgo the lindy hop?

TERRY Sheila’s been looking forward to the lindy hop.

LANCE So dance more important than detecting?

TERRY No. But Sheila is.

(Edit: they have pasts, not pasta)

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oriboaz t1_j6glwlg wrote

Reply to What’s actually a good/tolerable example of retconning? by unitedfan6191

  1. The introduction of Dawn in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was excellent.
  2. The replacement of the actor of Greg in “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” was very well done (including multiple in-show references to the character being a different actor).
  3. The series “Roseanne” had two different actresses for Becky. In the revival/The Conners, the first actress played Becky, but they had a nice storyline with the other Becky as well.
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PreviousTea9210 t1_j6glss9 wrote

Reply to comment by HPmoni in What are some shows that were advertised to one demographic, but became successful outside of the target demographic? by blqckwidow

Oh it absolutely pokes fun at liberals, and we love it! Despite what Tucker's told you, we absolutely know how to laugh at ourselves.

But you're missing the central premise of the show. Hank's old fashioned Conservative values are often challenged, and many times he has to question why he even holds those values in the first place. Think about the episode where he had to report a male coworker for sexual harrasment because it was making his workplace toxic, or when he had to confront his childhood trauma inflicted by his father that kept him from being able to use a gun properly, or when he had to stand by his wife as she taught sex ed at the school while conservative voices in the town tried to get the program shut down, or when Hank had to come to terms with the fact that Mr. Strickland, his boss and a man he admires greatly, does not run his business in order to provide good, stable employment to hardworking people and offer a valuable service to the community, but rather to squeeze every penny of profit he can from his customers because he's just a fatcat, greedy capitalist like the rest of them who wraps himself in good ol' fashion conservative values in order to sell a product.

Even through these conflicts though, the show never espouses the superiority of left or right wing ideology, but rather argues that the universal values of kindness, decency, and understanding always win the day.

And besides, it hella pokes fun at conservatives too.

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nicoco3890 t1_j6glfej wrote

Reply to comment by bl8ant in Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000 by blaspheminCapn

Dude, when you buy their stock, you force THEM to give YOU money via dividends. And you didn’t give them nothing, you just bought the stock from another trader.

Even better, if you and a band of other manages to buy 50.001% of the total stock, you are now majority shareholders and can reform Fox as the workers coop it always should have been.

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jyper t1_j6gj3gv wrote

Reply to comment by pm_me_reason_to_livx in Top 25 TV Shows of 2022 by pm_me_reason_to_livx

Ignoring some great sequels I thought Chainsaw man was awesome even if it hadn't gotten to some of the good parts of the manga. And I really liked summertime rendering (although I haven't seen the last few episodes). Lycoris recoil was fun. Spy X Family was great.

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