#(at least b99 had like... skilful writing. like it was funny it just. isn't entirely my kind of funny. it's not netflix humour | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

echthr0s · 10 months

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I think my best analogue for Renfield is Brooklyn Nine-Nine

which was a show I used to watch and enjoyed at the time but I think if I watched it now I would feel vaguely annoyed for most of it

idk why that specific kind of humour -- I can't even describe what it is, I can only describe it by reference -- just falls so flat for me now but it's that kind and any kind of what I've seen called "Netflix humour" (which B99 also kind of has sometimes but was explicitly exemplified in that raging flop of a show Blockbuster) that makes me want to do whatever the opposite of laugh is

(I think Superstore could have fallen into this trap too but somehow it didn't and that was a miracle. it kinda just. tapdanced around the edge of the trap lol)

#i think it's like. too much meta too much self-conscious ''politically correct'' speak too much self-consciousness in general #it's incredibly ''safe'' humour. and therefore bland as fuck but also irritating. somehow.#it's trying too hard and also not at all grounded in any kind of actual cleverness #(at least b99 had like... skilful writing. like it was funny it just. isn't entirely my kind of funny. it's not netflix humour #but it is adjacent and i think it's bc of the copaganda thing. like they felt like they had to compensate)#(i think that got to be more of a problem in later seasons when the show was getting more criticism bc of recent events)

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