I think he’s trying to steal the lightning from the episodes that resonated well with the audiences to make new episodes and it’s just not hitting quite as hard.
The old formula was amazing stories meets Twilight zone meets tales from the crypt we’re 8 out of 10 times the protagonist gets right fucked for just trying to be a good person.
It feels to me like the take away from sending apparel was that people like happy endings so they’re trying to apply it to everything
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I really, really could not get behind the premise that the PM of the UK would fuck a pig to save a princess.
In the real world, it would have been “we do not make deals with terrorists” and that would be that, ratings be damned. Like holy shit, did he start with a completely unrealistic premise.
dimeslime@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The “do horrible thing to save someone” story, yeah, maybe.
But the pig thing had been going around for years about the then/former prime minister. Some kind of hazing at eton or wherever those posh folks go. The episode was just a reference to that.
lloram239@feddit.de 1 year ago
The episode is from 2011, Piggate was in 2015.
dimeslime@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Ha. I guess I rewrote my own memory.