So far I've enjoyed stuff like The Boys, The Thick Of It, What We Do In The Shadows, but I'm open to try anything really. Except The Office.

  • luka467 [they/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Like I said, it's kind of my interpretation of it. Basically the whole

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    One Eyed Jack's plotline where the rich people in the town with shady connections to the criminal underworld smuggle girls (often underaged) into Canada so they can have depraved parties, and the systematic/bureaucratic nature of it reminded me a lot of the Jeffrey Epstein thing.

    It's not necessarily intended, but that's how I read it when I first watched the show.

    • them_fatale [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      My main disagreement with the politics of the show is the fact that cops and the FBI are portrayed in an almost entirely positive light tbh, but the one eyed jack's thing is a good point

    • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Oh yeah I forgot about that part. I think that's more

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      Epstein-pilled

      than lefty, which I have a feeling David Lynch is, and I think that's present across the political spectrum (except for centrists of course).

      • luka467 [they/them,he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Fair, I guess given that I started watching Twin Peaks because the True Anon theme song is just a sped up version of the intro, I might have just been subtly conditioned into connecting the two.

        • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          That's fucking hilarious, I 100% got into TrueAnon because of Yung Chomsky's sick Twin Peaks theme flip.

          I also never made the connection to Epstein stuff until now, I really thought they picked it for the aesthetic of "spookily investigating high-level things."

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          But there is literally a cabal of pedophiles in that show...

        • coolfuzzylemur [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Wow, hadn't caught that. Though the tempo is more the version with Julee Cruise vocals rather than the show version

          • luka467 [they/them,he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah, the 'You'd never guess' in the song is Pete Martell starting the biggest mystery of the show, who put the fish in the percolator?