I feel like this is pretty flawed. You basically have collected four tv shows from the same ‘rich family drama’ genre and then asked “why are all these rich family dramas about dramatic families with lots of money?”
And even then glass onion barely feels like it stands in the list you’re trying to make because there’s plenty of crime and detective dramas that don’t focus on the super wealthy.
I’m not trying to claim anything. I’m saying, to my ears, it sounds like you’re just complaining that a genre of storytelling and that tropes within certain genres just exist.
Why not try promoting the work you feel is underrepresented? What are some ‘better’ things we could be watching instead of the ‘slop’?
And even then glass onion barely feels like it stands in the list you’re trying to make because there’s plenty of crime and detective dramas that don’t focus on the super wealthy.
This is incorrect. It’s a convention of the genre that an heiress/tycoon gets murdered and the detective tries to solve it, typically in a mansion.
This goes back to Agatha Christie, unlike OP was saying, but it seems pointless to deny the class bias exists. Obviously the class bias exists.
I feel like this is pretty flawed. You basically have collected four tv shows from the same ‘rich family drama’ genre and then asked “why are all these rich family dramas about dramatic families with lots of money?”
And even then glass onion barely feels like it stands in the list you’re trying to make because there’s plenty of crime and detective dramas that don’t focus on the super wealthy.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/a_murder_at_the_end_of_the_world — “A Murder at the End of the World is a limited series about a Gen Z amateur sleuth and a billionaire’s guests who…”
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/arrow — “When presumed-dead billionaire playboy Oliver Queen returns home…”
Just skimmed thru a list of slop: Schitt’s Creek, Gossip Girl, The White Lotus, Below Deck all seem to be about the haute bourgeoisie.
What are you trying to claim? That they’re not overrepresented ?
I’m not trying to claim anything. I’m saying, to my ears, it sounds like you’re just complaining that a genre of storytelling and that tropes within certain genres just exist.
Why not try promoting the work you feel is underrepresented? What are some ‘better’ things we could be watching instead of the ‘slop’?
I am yeah.
See: !noyank@lemmy.ml
This is incorrect. It’s a convention of the genre that an heiress/tycoon gets murdered and the detective tries to solve it, typically in a mansion.
This goes back to Agatha Christie, unlike OP was saying, but it seems pointless to deny the class bias exists. Obviously the class bias exists.