@random_eddie I hope it’s good. I lost some interest when I saw they were switching to a more melee focused combat, and to a new main character.
The original Control is one of my all time favorites.
He drove away two wives, and became estranged from his children. He has no family, and ruined any friendships. He suffered a massive breakdown in front of his coworkers and a client. His entire life philosophy of “moving forward” was shown to be an excuse for running away from his problems. And he spends most of the series hating himself.
Everything cool about Don Draper is a lie, and crumbles at the first sign of danger.
I loved the Mad Men finale when I saw it in 2015. I remember asking this grizzled boomer what he thought of it, and he said he was angry that Don wasn’t ‘arrested and executed for desertion’. And I scoffed at that at the time (haha, silly old guy) but he was kind of right. Don never facing any real consequences for years of dysfunctional and self-destructive behavior is the central flaw of the show. It’s still objectively good TV, but you have to see through that.
But I think a lot of poorly socialized Gen Z males (a lot of Gen Z was primarily socialized through media and that’s part of why some of them are so detached from reality) really internalized that message, the message that dysfunctional behavior was in fact glamorous like Don and you can get away with it indefinitely. But you really can’t.
And the popular media archetype of highly competent professional with highly dysfunctional personal life doesn’t really exist in real life. There are edge cases, sure. But a lot of young people assume it’s true (even common) because they see it on TV so often. Most highly competent people are really pretty boring.
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Ok, now I'm curious. Who were the RINOs who voted to naturalize 40 million illegals who would vote Dem in every election?
Guess I'll download the vote data, upload to google, and experiment with slicers.
oh, hey @KellyAyotte , nice to see you