13 Signs You’re Watching a ‘Prestige’ TV Show

And when I thought the brain too large meme couldn't get any more ridiculous and better we have a new contender
Didn't read the post though but I will at some point

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>>81363500
>to smart

>>81363533
Fuck me
The game just leveled up again

>>81363533
>to

19. Cucking

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>>81363391
me on the left

>>81363591
Hi newfag

>>81363620
Hey fagfag

>>81363391

underexposed

>>81363636
>363636
Buy a lotto ticket

full story: http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/prestige-tv-signs-youre-watching.html

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>>81363500
I tried reading the post but he clearly very quickly gave up knowing that most people would be talking about the image - and what an image!

This felt like a movie, so fuckin' epic. The direction was fantastic, the visuals were outstanding, and the sense of pre-battle foreboding was really well-depicted by the writers. I think Jon, Sam and Ygritte were well enough developed that I cared about their lives, and I feel like we can't really judge this episode for what may be book changes or delays until next week. As it is, it was amazing.

>>81363391
This is great, who wrote this?

>>81363729
He hit the nail on the head to be honest. Modern TV is shit and the golden age of TV is a meme/lie. This is why old HBO is good and current HBO is utter shit.

The main thing is, TV isn't an artform. Pretending that it can become one because the film industry has been so destroyed by appealling to teenage boys and developmentally-arrested adults that independent filmmakers have to release stuff directly to Netflix is futile. In truth, cinema has been impoverished, and the only artistically defensible things you can watch on a television weren't made for television and can only be demeaned by being exhibited that way.

>>81363391
>11. Literally nothing is funny.
everything else would be ok if there was some kind of humor there

>>81363732
>(you)

>>81363391
Reminder that it's an objective fact that TV shows are an inferior form of a visual medium compared to film.

The primary focus in TV is on the written narrative and nothing else, the repetitive structure, countless establishing shots and shots of a car entering a location, countless "let's go to a bar for a beer" like exposition dialogues, every episode has to end with a cliffhanger, every episode has one big moment which is executed well while the rest is mostly filler, countless twists and turns etc

All the other filmmaking elements like cinematography, editing, sound design don't matter at all in the long run, the only thing you are left with is characters and nothing else .

Most of the time you don't even have to look at the screen, the back to back camerawork in dialogues get's so overused that you can basically just listen to the conversation without even watching the screen and grasp all the information you need because the written narrative is the main thing here, while in film it's the visual narrative.