Remember the show “Connections” from the BBC and they would take some technology like a steam coal shovel and explain how that somehow resulted in a series of cause and affect conditions that made the moon landing possible. It was like an hour of being spoon fed all this fascinating material in depth.
TV content used to be more nutritious for your brain. Then somehow everything became just pure fried sugar devoid of any beneficial or meaningful content. Why does everything end up being reduced to the lowest effort schlock?
Now stretch it over twenty minutes, with constant repetition of the few known facts, ad “breaks” with a short reminded of what happened beforehand…
It’s been a few years and I still wanna throw my phone off the window watching it : The Gift Shop
Remember the show “Connections” from the BBC and they would take some technology like a steam coal shovel and explain how that somehow resulted in a series of cause and affect conditions that made the moon landing possible. It was like an hour of being spoon fed all this fascinating material in depth.
TV content used to be more nutritious for your brain. Then somehow everything became just pure fried sugar devoid of any beneficial or meaningful content. Why does everything end up being reduced to the lowest effort schlock?
Capitalism. I mean, probably. Sadly I’m reduced to getting all of my information from 3hr video essays these days so I’m a tad biased.
That’s “cause and effect”
Affect is about appearance: she effected an affect of indifference
Was about to post this: the unedited version at the end being included makes me think this came out of a David Mitchell rant