I cannot wait until being earnest and genuine is in vogue again. Living in a society full of cynical, pessimistic misanthropes who want you to be just as miserable as they are is simply not it.
Which it makes it difficult to discuss art because when people identify so closely with the material, they consider anything less than glowing praise about the characters to be a personal attack on them. Their sense of self is subsumed by what they’re watching.