This is depressingly accurate.
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?
They captured it perfectly
British character on British TV:
“you alright, man? My mum said you’d been feeling a bit down and could use a talk.”
British character on US TV:
“Cor blimey, guvnor! Me mam gave us a right old bollockin’ on that you’d bin down in the dumps and could use a jolly ole shot in the arm! Roger roger! Say no more!”
British TV has to tone it down because British people get offended and think that the characters are just cartoonish stereotypes. Their US portrayal is more accurate because they don’t have to tone it down.
Edit: britoids offended because I told the truth.
“embracing your Britishness abroad” is just a euphemism for feeling homesick to the point of delirium
We also like talking loudly in English, being sick, and light hooliganism
Yep, completely right we all talk like that all day and don’t notice. That’s why we notice it sounds weird when we see people speaking completely normally in US shows.
As an American, I wanted to read this but I got distracted and then bored because it’s just text.
