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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
The best work of metamodern tv to date is probably Kevin Can F**k Himself starring Annie Murphy (Alexis from Schitt’s Creek). But I couldn’t watch past the first season. This suggests to me that it’s a fundamentally limited artistic movement. The problem is that metaness even at its best is fundamentally at odds with ludicrous immersion. Nathan Fielder, EEAAO, Taika Waititi etc are all overrated self-indulgence as a service imo. Rick and Morty almost hit the right balance between meta and ludicrous before overreaching. The Deadpool movies are borderline. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Can_F**k_Himself
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ȷď𝐛𝐛
@jenna
Curious if you gave Our Flag Means Death a try? Something reigned Taiki’s worst impulses in and the zany mostly worked I thought
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Simon de la Rouviere
@simondlr
I feel like great metamodern work need to actually survive on its modernist side, not on its postmodernity. The latter is the entry point and provides juxtaposition, but you still need to tell a good story without the meta introspection. I just started KCFH and the dark side bears the weight of it.
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Yeah the Nathan thing definitely was too much. Rick and Morty was great but has become a bit of an ouroborus
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Taylor Sizemore
@taylorsizemore.eth
Even I can't overrate Fielder... Best tv in a very long time IMO.
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