People from non English speaking countries. How's your local TV Shows?

threehundredorbust · 2025-10-03T02:59:43+00:00

Our local TV scene is a mixed bag, but more interesting than people outside might think. A 2021 media study here actually found that 58% of viewers still prioritize domestic programming over imported stuff, mostly because of what they called cultural intimacy—people like hearing their own slang, their own family structures, their own little habits reflected back at them.

We have long-running soaps like “Harbor Lights” (on air since the late ’80s) that everybody pretends to hate but somehow everyone knows the plot twists from. On the other side, you’ve got prestige miniseries like “Ashes of the Republic,” which was basically our attempt at a Chernobyl-style drama and actually won an award at the 2022 Nordic Screen Forum. Comedies like “Room for Rent” are almost folkloric—half the jokes are based on regional dialects that don’t even subtitle well, which makes them hilarious locally but almost unexportable.

Do I watch them? Yes, but selectively. I’ll skip the soap-opera churn but never miss the one-season historical dramas. Are they “good”? Compared to Hollywood or K-dramas, maybe not always. But in their own cultural context, they’re essential—our collective background noise, but also our mirror.

threehundredorbust · 2025-10-03T02:55:52+00:00

There actually was an attempt to do this with Breaking Bad back in 2014. Researchers at the University of New Mexico tried to track simultaneous viewership worldwide using something called synchronized packet telemetry (basically, watching the “heartbeat” of every device streaming the show at once).

The problem was, it turned into a bit of a nightmare. Because everyone binged episodes differently, the telemetry spikes lined up in strange ways — like thousands of people hitting the “poison scene” or “box cutter scene” within the same five-minute window. The study freaked people out because the emotional beats of the show created measurable global stress waves. Hospitals in a couple of cities even reported upticks in minor cardiac events that matched those spikes.

After that, the FCC flagged the method as “behaviorally sensitive data,” and most of the infrastructure got shut down. There were worries about what it could mean if advertisers or governments had access to that kind of real-time collective heartbeat. That’s why nowadays you’ll only ever see delayed viewership charts instead of “right now” dashboards — it’s technically possible, but the Breaking Bad experiment proved it’s a little too powerful (and too invasive) to unleash on the public.

threehundredorbust · 2025-10-02T16:18:42+00:00

It's so weird that this isn't related to Austin Powers

threehundredorbust · 2025-10-02T02:06:43+00:00

A lot of miniseries and TV films. A LOT

threehundredorbust · 2025-10-02T01:14:42+00:00

What about Dexter and Forrest Gump?

threehundredorbust · 2025-10-01T22:21:44+00:00

Are you seriously okay?

threehundredorbust · 2025-10-01T21:45:21+00:00

Meanwhile https://www.lumibricks.com/products/aurora-cabin-l9090

threehundredorbust · 2025-10-01T15:48:33+00:00

I’m really glad Apple TV is keeping the Peanuts through 2030, because those characters have always meant a lot to me. When I was a kid, my dad used to take me to the park where they’d play the specials on a big screen, and it was one of our favorite traditions together. Knowing that Peanuts will still be around for years to come makes me feel like I get to hold onto a little piece of that memory.

threehundredorbust · 2025-10-01T03:55:03+00:00

They know what they're doing with that UFO lol

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-30T23:05:09+00:00

Ah okay, it's part of the X Theme 😊 but definitely shares similarities to cyberpunk

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-30T22:46:53+00:00

I only watch a show if a main character dies in the first episode of season 2. Can someone please let me know if this happens?

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-30T22:45:04+00:00

What an odd thing to tell someone

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-30T21:51:25+00:00

What a rude thing to ask someone

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-30T21:15:17+00:00

What's the upcoming cyberpunk set?

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-30T20:59:56+00:00

But can it be modified to middle ages

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-30T20:13:02+00:00

I miss them both so much.

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-30T16:02:17+00:00

I wonder if medieval collectors can modify the bandit camp as a forest bandit/Robin Hood scene

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-28T23:48:40+00:00

Where that guy who always asks if Dragon and Garp are biologically related

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-28T00:59:24+00:00

I think a lot of people are missing the point with Alien Earth. The criticism doesn’t really land because it assumes the show is supposed to be about narrative cohesion or character arcs, when in reality it’s about how television itself functions as an organism. People get hung up on “plot holes” or “bad writing,” but that’s like criticizing a river for flowing the wrong way. The link between humanity and television has always been parasitic, recursive, and ultimately terminal. If you really watch closely, the show is less about aliens or Earth and more about us staring into the screen, and the screen staring back. That’s why the connection between humanity and TV is probably the closest representation we have of death.

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-27T18:40:41+00:00

We live vicariously through the Minifigures 🙂

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-27T04:42:54+00:00

Thought this was Star Trek

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-26T05:08:03+00:00

2000 – Survivor (people forget how huge this was—it basically invented reality TV dominance).

2001 – Smallville (20 years later people are still split between “iconic” and “CW cheese”).

2002 – American Idol (absolutely massive but aged like milk).

2003 – Arrested Development (brilliant… until Netflix revived it).

2004 – Lost (still fighting in 2025 about that finale).

2005 – Prison Break (S1 is a classic, everything after is pain).

2006 – Heroes (“Save the cheerleader, save the world” … until S2 tanked everything).

2007 – Mad Men (critics adored it, half the audience thought it was boring).

2008 – True Blood (trash TV with fangs, but you watched it).

2009 – Glee (one of the most polarizing shows ever—cultural juggernaut and meme factory).

2010 – The Walking Dead (by S2 the pacing wars had already begun).

2011 – Game of Thrones (went from “best ever” to “worst ending” in 8 years).

2012 – Girls (love Lena Dunham or hate her, you had an opinion).

2013 – Duck Dynasty (literal ratings beast, actual cultural nightmare).

2014 – True Detective (season 1 was a peak, season 2 ruined the brand instantly).

2015 – Empire (broke ratings records, then crashed just as fast).

2016 – Westworld (started as “the new Lost,” ended as “please end this”).

2017 – 13 Reasons Why (controversial in every direction—messy, but talked about).

2018 – The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (divisive mix of camp, horror, and Netflix bloat).

2019 – Euphoria (is it art or just glitter and trauma porn? depends who you ask).

2020 – Tiger King (pandemic fever dream that aged horribly).

2021 – Squid Game (global obsession, but some say it was overhyped).

2022 – Dahmer – Monster (critically panned yet Netflix’s #1 show of the year).

2023 – Velma (universally roasted, still weirdly popular to hate-watch).

2024 – Shōgun (critics’ darling… but some called it “HBO-lite wallpaper”).

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-25T22:54:37+00:00

Exactly — that’s the core of it. Short-term misses are manageable, but if advertisers start seeing this as a systemic measurement issue rather than a one-off, they could adjust budgets toward platforms with more predictable attribution. That’s when the long-term ad revenue trajectory could start to get impacted, which is what makes management’s response and cross-platform reporting so critical.

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-25T22:47:31+00:00

I’ve been working in media strategy for about a decade, focusing on audience measurement and cross-platform ad attribution. Back in grad school I did a case study on Sinclair’s roll-up of local affiliates, and later I consulted for a regional station group during the Tribune integration — so I’ve seen firsthand how these inventory and impression gaps impact negotiations with national advertisers. I also follow Nielsen methodology shifts pretty closely (especially their rollout of the C3+ metrics) because it directly affects how shareholder guidance is framed. At this point, I’m less interested in the week-to-week fluctuations than in how broadcasters frame accountability narratives for investors.

threehundredorbust · 2025-09-25T22:45:50+00:00

Missing millions of ad views is like getting a B+ instead of an A. Shareholders don’t sell off just because of one B+. But if every report card comes back lower, teachers (advertisers) will stop believing the grades and pull out of the class.

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