As an American, I wanted to read this but I got distracted and then bored because it’s just text.
As an American I never learned English. Why would I, when everyone in my country speaks American?
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?
Was about to post this: the unedited version at the end being included makes me think this came out of a David Mitchell rant
I call fake on the American one. Where’s the advertisement? Where’s the product placement and the political propaganda?
Forgot the 5 minute long scene in the British documentary where the animals are shagging each other
Anyone ever see that French? documentary where snails fuck to opera in slowmo? Good shit.
I cannot watch any Netflix documentary. They’re all like this.
The bottom one only plays on sunday afternoons one episode after the other preceded by America’s Funniest Home Videos reruns on ABC Family or w/e the channel name is now.
I haven’t watched proper TV in 20 years so I honestly don’t know whether this is actually happening in peoples’ homes. The discovery merger lends too much credence to the possibility. Which reality show completed the enshitification of an already extremely enshitified service? Was it duck dynasty that set the trajectory for [current year]?
I miss when educational TV was actually educational.
This is depressingly accurate.
Wow, those were the exact words I thought
They captured it perfectly
