On popular sites like X, Instagram, Substack Reddit, or Medium, you might find claims from movie fans about there not being quality movies or television shows anymore. I’ve seen it on a continual basis.
It’s not that there aren’t anymore good movies or television shows, the film industry so much of the time is consuming the audience. Eye on projected revenue.
From there they’ll presume in advance what will make money, gain fame, be popular then do the equivalent of a little gig for the audience, involving a number of professionals in the spell they’re weaving.
It’s a common side effect of existing within an industry which attracts such a high level of fascination, attention, and over the top returns. And unfortunately it becomes like a bad actor, in the form of a film or television production. Bad acting calls attention to itself, because the actor is secretly watching the audience, as they perform to them instead of their other actors, with the wider circumstances of the story in mind. This kind of acting takes on an artifice that breaks the experience the audience is having, kicking them out of affair.
A terrible production does the same thing, it plays to the audience in an imbalanced manner. Presuming and delivering references for the exact purpose of playing to the tastes and triggers in the viewers. The end result lacking life in a way.
Just those tropey, recycled broad strokes an audience liked once… somewhere.
Why all of this? Because I watched the beginnings of a mess made of the third season of a series, whose first and second season were nothing short of spectacular. I was such a fan, that my mind felt like it was abused watching a slop of talky-non-nuanced-without tension-boring episodes from the new season.
I was…truth be told… in DISBELIEF.
Interview with a Vampire’s third 3rd season was so bad I cancelled my trial membership on AMC – launched to watch the new episodes. The whole thing felt like it was winking at itself; a bad experience convinced it was phenomenal, due to the success of previous seasons.
The casting, plot, sets, costumes, and music… in other words… everything that’s usually there in a great series…was present in those first two seasons. And so much so I HIGHLY recommend watching that!
Sadly, what there is of the third season so far… is a COMPLETE MISFIRE.
-From a fan of what came before.
Archaic Sugar 
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