tv peaked during the 80s because it's all extremely goofy and doesn't pretend to be some cinematic masterpiece that exists to sell razors and cereal or whatever

burn notice is a spiritual successor to the a-team but it needed to have this big mythos about michael getting un-burned when it'd be so much more fun to focus solely on the jobs he gets hired for

star trek discovery is this big serious thing unlike the next generation which featured shakespeare among other things

let media be silly again i don't need high art wankery to enjoy something

this thread inspired by the 1988 mission impossible series featuring a bad guy in s2e6 who just said that his invasion would dwarf even hitler's invasion of poland and i love it