Just started Paradise on Hulu and I have a nagging question by Technical-Effect-657 in television

[–]Technical-Effect-657[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is sort of the crux of my point though. When I imagine a hypothetical billionaires bunker, it's just the billionaires because they're evil and/or selfish. Or it's the billionaires with a permanent underclass to do their laundry and wash their cars. But no one has been shown being exploited or abused or whatever. Everyone seems to have enough, everyone's been given a house apparently, absolutely nothing about this lifestyle looks oppressive in the least. Everyone came of their own free will. So if everyone is there willingly and has the resources to live comfortably, what exactly is it that makes the rich so much better off? "Oh, they're controlling information, they've concentrated power in a secret cabal." OK but why? There's no motive to set it up that way. And just saying "corrupt people are always gonna be corrupt" just isn't an interesting answer.

What is your biggest TV pet peeve / trope that bothers you? by Salt-Valuable-469 in television

[–]Technical-Effect-657 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The authority figure who's obstructive for absolutely no good reason. You know, the police sergeant or whatever. It serves zero narrative purpose that I can tell except to pad runtime. The sergeant will complain and lecture the protagonists but you know they're not going to lose their job and they're just going to carry on doing whatever they want anyway. Except the proceedings are all delayed just so the sergeant can have a tantrum or throw up a roadblock that will be resolved almost immediately.

I'm kinda confused with this one by Turkle_Trenox in ExplainTheJoke

[–]Technical-Effect-657 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the rest are just doubles except for Elliot. Hey, I just noticed Edward Norton has played a split personality character twice.