Considering his kids and her husband's reaction to their coupling it very much ruined the actual marriages too.

She was my childhood crush and now she is my adulthood crush.

Covid

They aren't. No shows are popular. You are confusing "do well enough to make a lot of them" with being popular.

The most watched show on television is FBI which get 5% of the U.S. as viewers. I'll repeat that, the most "popular" show on television only appeals to 5% of the population.

No shows are popular. They just get enough viewers to be considered successful.

TYSO GOBLIN EFFECT!

Yes, it's a jarring change. So is season 3, 4, and 5. That's the point of the show, peeling back more layers to the city by altering the scope of the setting. It isn't just about cops and robbers

So much great shit happens in Season 2. Even if you don't like the docks, you've got Cold Blood Stringer running the Barksdale Org. You get the Omar courtoom scene. D'Angelo and Avon in prison. Herc in Rocawear. The tennis ball.

But the shit with the docks is brilliant too. The last 4 episodes of the season are a perfect crescendo. The cat and mouse game with the Greek in the hotel is fucking great.

And without the Greeks you don't get the iconic line from Sergei - "Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Yes? Then it wasn't us."

Season 2 is objectively better than 5 by a mile and might even be better than Season 1. Doesn't touch 3 or 4 but to say it drags the show down is one of the stranger stances I see people take regarding The Wire. I really feel like people don't like Season 2 mostly because of how comparatively white the cast is.

The same reason mystery and suspense novels have always been popular.

The human mind is primed to pay very close attention to Caution Tales about horrible things that happened to other people (even fictional ones). We've been learning from each other by listening to stories for thousands and thousands of years, and the thrilling, scary ones are often the most attractive and memorable.

Thanks. Good to know

If it was him, sure - but it was Gina Rodriguez making it.

Along with true crime, they are popular with women most of all. I think there are a bunch of reasons. The shows confront something in society they fear, a legitimate threat they have to think about day-to-day. I am guessing it's cathartic watching it play out in the safety of their living rooms. I think "You" has the added element that Joe is not a bad looking fellow and he's also charming. You kind of see how someone could fall for the Ted Bundy type tricks.

Also, my partner and I are big into horror and there was an article I read recently linking the enjoyment of horror with something called "benign masochism". Basically something that would be normally be unpleasant, in this case fear, feels good when you know you are safe. Another example is eating really spicy foods. I can see this being a factor with these shows too.

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Are you implying that classic Hollywood films were like this? Audio was paramount in those films to the point that many stars were ADRed by voice actors for extremely minute reasons.

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I watch the murder channel on occasion (ID Discovery) and it is quite literally mindless repetition of a formula. Content-wise, it's like a mystery and horror movie wrapped up in one.

As with all interests or genres, everyone has a different experience. But....

1 - they're telling about human nature 2 - cautionary tales, one can learn a lot about protecting themselves by learning basic commonalities of past crimes. A major lesson, IMO, is how girls are often conditioned to value manners / politeness over their instinct but that's to their detriment. 3 - personally, I was a young teen when a friend was murdered and then peripherally knew a few women that were victims of what was believed to be a serial offender. These events were all during formative years and tackling fears meant learning as much as one could. The murdered friend ended up as a case being unsolved for many years, so there was little real info in her case but much to learn from the global community.

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To be fair Joel (Pascal) is from Texas while Rick (Lincoln) is from Georgia. Those are two very different accents.

I loved her in Braindead. Too bad they cancelled that show. It stood out. They even managed to make previous episode recaps funny.

Just stop

Are autistic people not allowed to joke about/make light of their autism now?

It was akin to Michael J Fox shaking Larry's soda on Curb.

You’ve posted this three times, get the fuck over it Boris jfc

Who cares. She's hot.

Season 2 was by far the best season

Are they still walking?