Everywhere online now, every movie, every home video, has been passed through so many filters that people don’t look human any more. Nobody has any lines in their face, their teeth are florescent white, their eyes are filled in and have no veins. Nobody ever looks tired, or natural. Add to the mix the fact that everyone is getting lip implants to look like a blowfish, and I’m just tired of it. I miss seeing real human beings.
The lip implants rarely look good.
Have you considered watching English or Scandinavian shows?
I haven’t. Can you recommend a good one?
Peep Show if you’re into humour as dry as sandpaper. It definitely has peopley people.
Taskmaster. Pretty sure it’s all on YouTube.
The Gentlemen is pretty good. The movie or the show. Fuck, anything by Guy Ritchie. He’s good at showing the dirty edges of things as well as the pretty.
Detectorists
QI (if you like Stephen Fry, British humour, and learning random facts). Most of the guests are pretty “normal people” looking. Except when Victoria Coren Mitchell is on. She always look fabulous.
Inside No. 9 is excellent, along the same lines as Black Mirror, but comedy