This show just came to an end and it’s got to be one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen, but somehow always entertaining. Preferable if the show has a large amount of viewers to trash it and laugh at it.

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    1110 months ago

    NBC has a show called “The Nightly News”, and from 2017-2021 the writing was completely insane and the main characters were basically cartoonish villains, but it was hard not to watch. There were tons of other viewers and an ungodly number of fan sites online to discuss the various sub-plots and characters.

    By early 2020, one of the 2019 sub-plots went completely viral and millions of people didn’t even leave their houses.

    In late 2020, one of the main characters was voted off the show and it became a whole “thing”. The writers, ultimately, didn’t really remove the character—just minimized him to a series of courtroom B-stories, and the occasional fan-service appearance.

    The show is still on, but I think it must have different show runners these days.

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        710 months ago

        They literally called Trump a cartoonish villain lol.

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            410 months ago

            That was my impression too but after rereading it, I wonder if it’s satire taking a dig at our insane reality in the US.

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            110 months ago

            I thought that initially as well (actually I thought it was the shitty Tina fey news spoof for a second, I won’t lie), but they call trump a character later