Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Venting the stress of querying by dissing shows I watched:

 Every traditionally published author or anyone aspiring to traditionally publish their fiction novel will tell you that querying is hard, often heartless, and increasingly frustrating. So, as a "cardio exercise" that can be done from the comforting embrace of the couch, I decided to vent by dissing the shows I watched and even enjoyed a lot in a quick fire round. I hope you enjoy reading them. 

Warning, the following contains major spoiler for each show mentioned. 

  •  9-1-1: Lone Star: It's one thing to make Liv Tyler disappear with nothing more than a vapid explanations, but what did happen to the Capt. Strand's girlfriend? Doesn't she even merit a lousy explanation?
  • Breaking Bad: Saving one's racist, sexist, lousy brother-in-law is too lame an excuse for poising a child, even for a meth kingpin. Also, I loved Gus and Mike & wished they had killed Walt before he had a chance to ruin such a solid operation. Compared to my last boss, Gus is an angel.
  • Better Call Saul: What is it with American shows' urge to stifle all the fun of watching lovable villains and antiheroes, by forcing a didactic ending. This is a show for adults and we live in a world where real villains *coughs, and you swear it sounds like Bezos, Musk, and Trump* always win.
  • Leftovers: I absolutely love this show and it rules. But why spending three seasons on hyping this mysterious event that turned the lives of everyone on the entire planet upside down, only to have one of the protagonist just casually mention the secret behind this earth shattering phenomenon over a cup of tea they drank at the kitchen table in the very last episode.
  • Peaky Blinders: Season 6 managed to become The God Father 3 of the show, didn't it? At least this way I don't mind if there's not going to be any sequels.
  • Lucifer: They gave us all closure by making the last season so needlessly silly that no one would mind the show ending. I respect that.
  • Godfather of Harlem: What Disney witch has cursed poor Stella? In the last episode of the second season I only cared about two things, one got shot in the head and the other went up in flames (though could have been easily avoided). Way to torture fans!
  • This Is Us: I thought we were over feeling sorry for the American soldiers who invaded the poor Vietnamese fisher villages.

[I'm going to add more, later.]

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