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Reservation Dogs
2021 · TV series · 3 seasons
Created by Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo
Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.
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I feel like Disney+ really cemented the decline here. I enjoyed watching Reservation Dogs, which I think I had pirated originally because it was one of those smaller shows with awkward distribution rights. I genuinely wanted to just go and buy the second and third seasons up front when they were airing. It's fine if it's unreasonably priced and it takes a day or two for the episodes to be available, I needed to absolve my guilt for pirating it. So I tried iTunes, which has basically everything if you bring cash, right? Used to, anyway. Not anymore. The only way to watch this show is if you subscribe to Disney+. I don't know why they make this hard, and I don't care either. Episodes were available immediately on TPB. I felt bad, but Disney made me do it. To be fair, Netflix does the same thing, but they don't have their fingers in so many places.
I think my point didn't quite come across... Comedy got way more serious and certainly made that (necessary) leap after a big dive in quality during the 00s (thanks Chuck Lorre!). Writers of other genres learned from the successful HBO and AMC productions that TV shows are more than just a fixed universe with a static cast and a dynamic part, and that each episode could be more than one short story told in this staged universe - that is the main part in the leap that makes old shows feel old now.
Thanks for the recommendations, didn't know about The Rehearsal, Shogun, and Reservation Dogs (you wrote "Resevoir Dogs"?). Our tastes may wary, but I think For All Mankind fell back to some 90s formula after season 2.
We're unsubbed from everything except Apple (inertia of the Family Plan is high, but I want out because Apple Music is buggy, I've already seen Ted Lasso, and PBS is better for what I'm interested in) and PBS, though that's considered a donation. Wait a couple months and new movies and serials show up at the tax-funded public library. I'm so proud of our local library system. We donate money to help pay for electronic media and job training.
I don't miss Netflix, Prime, or Hulu (now that we finished watching Reservation Dogs and Creamerie- those are worth it, especially RD).
My hope is that this anecdote helps someone pull the plug if they're equivocating.
TV: I’m loving the series Reservation Dogs right now (not to be confused with Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs). It’s about some kids living on a Reservation in Oklahoma. It feels like a mix of the vibes of Freaks and Geeks and Northern Exposure, with lots of magical realism. Seems to be critically acclaimed but I don’t see a lot of buzz about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_Dogs
Similarly, Atlanta was fantastic, challenging, and seemed to throw something completely different at you in every episode. I think Hiro Murai is going to be one of the great filmmakers of his generation.
I guess it’s a stretch to call it underrated because it was overwhelmingly critically acclaimed, but I feel it belongs to be talked about alongside the all-time greats when anecdotally I don’t hear much about it. For example, I’ve heard several casual references to Mad Men in the past few months, whereas I have never heard anyone mention Atlanta except when I have brought it up. Could just be my perception that’s off, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_(TV_series)
Depending which country you’re in or bundle you choose, Disney gives you:
- all the fox content which is a massive range of genres
- Disney animation and live action stuff (including Pixar)
- Marvel and Star Wars
- national geographic documentaries
- a bunch of shows on Hulu or from FX
The range is actually quite a bit higher overall.
In the US these are split out over multiple services but in most of the rest of the world, Disney merged it in to the one app.
I currently have the latest Pixar film in my recommended list next to The Bear and Reservation Dogs.
I've been really disappointed with Reservation Dogs' arrangement. Brilliant little bite-size show, but their network means they only stream on Hulu or Disney+ (not sure if it's even on Disney+ in the US?) and they don't sell episodes á la carte at all, right now, in Canada. Even if you are okay subscribing to a new streaming service just for that show, you need to spend a ridiculous amount of time figuring out which one it is for the country you are in. So I'm sure the show will soon be cancelled due to "weak viewership", probably oblivious to how difficult they've made it to actually watch the thing legally.
I feel like there was a very nice short-lived window where networks were just trying to distribute stuff profitably instead of using everything as a vehicle to increase subscriber counts, but that moment has clearly passed.
Euphoria? Excellent show.
Reservation Dogs? Excellent show.
Dear White People? Woke Garbage.
Kill Bill? Excellent movie.
Captain Marvel? Woke Garbage.
You're demonstrating nothing but your own hyper-fixation on superficial identity characteristics by failing to recognize that there are plenty of "women, LGBT, PoC, etc" in all kinds of media beloved by those who are sick and tired of woke media. You think that these characteristics are sufficient for people to dislike this media, whereas the precise inverse seems to be true, wherein pro-woke people seem to be perfectly happy accepting garbage as media so long as these identity groups and messages are present.
I'm not interested in continuing this conversation by taking some kind of boomer position on wokeness, I just think that you're willfully arguing in bad faith, but you already know that.