Re:Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films
by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:54PM
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> American TV tends to afraid of a lot of taboos
Broadcasters invest a lot of resources into a single production that they'll prize for a year or to, or even a decade if it's a hit - but as they've got a TV audience sized in the multiples-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-people that's also socially/politically/culturally polarized they won't take many chances with controversial material.
If you ignore the (largely bland, invariably unoriginal) "mass-market" media in the US and look at smaller, local and independent broadcast media in the US (back when local TV stations were a thing) you'll see more... interesting material, but the production values aren't there which makes it harder to watch.
Re:Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films
by drstewart on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @08:28AM
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Can you share some Norwegian adaptations of American shows so we can see how Norwegians change foreign taboos for their own purposes?
Of course, the assumption is that Norwegians will always be 100% faithful to all source material.
When American movies deal with sex it is always made into something tantalizing. Something to sell and excite. American media quickly sweep under the rug anything unpleasant.