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Luke tricking me into thirst-clicking an Anya Taylor-Joy thumbnail shows he understands his audience.
It’s a great point about the lack of correlation between hedonism on TV and hedonism in real life, and it’s not really a new thing either. When I was a kid (mid 2000s) we had a show in Britain called Skins, which was effectively six series of 16 year-olds doing hard drugs, screwing everything that moved, crashing cars into canals etc. But what’s really odd is that the media coverage of it always emphasised how true to life it was, which couldn’t be less accurate to the lives of anybody I knew as a teenager in Britain. You see the same thing happening now for Americans with Euphoria.
There’s an appetite for the opposite of this, and ironically I think Game of Thrones is the best example of that. The sordid society depicted in the show was originally written by GRRM as a spiteful caricature of the Middle Ages, and the sexual violence in particular was ultimately satirical in nature. The idea that it’s meant to be a realistic world is a misunderstanding of George’s preoccupation with the minutiae of government and political life, best typified by his famous anecdote about wanting to know what Aragorn’s tax policy would be after the events of LOTR.
The book audience was sophisticated enough to understand this, and the essential layer of “irony” did survive the adaptation to TV for a few seasons. But ultimately the populism of the medium and vapidity of the showrunners and writers ensured that it ended up becoming exactly the moronic spectacle it was originally admired for not being. It’s a real shame, because I do love the books and did enjoy the TV show for the first three or four seasons.
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