I like when high concept stuff is explored in a more grounded way. I guess that's my sensibilities. Hyper-reality is just too much for my delicate self to handle. Reality-reality is bad enough. I think it's very clever, but cheap.

On top of that, every show now-a-days seems to have to put in some overt sexual or violent content, if not that it makes a passive attempt at mind fucking you with varying results. We know it's just to generate interest and buzz but it's really to the detriment of it's quality.

I don't mind when those events are consistent with the theme or an exploration of the concept, but modern television and even a lot of modern literature is just a string of interconnected events staking claim to various different aspects of the human experience, picking them up and discarding them at will and then patting it's self on the back for doing so.

We accept this because that more closely mirrors real-life but that's kind of sad isn't it? That all television is just becoming a overly saturated version of the mundane. I think it started with Breaking Bad and has just spiraled out of control from there.

That said should we put stock in people making things for us to that exists to just whittle down the hours towards death? I think so, complaining would be pretty pointless otherwise.