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Don't be (too) ashamed. What's the slop you're getting into this week? Games, movies, tv shows, etc.

I'll go first I suppose. I'm watching Burn Notice. I'm on season 3 episode 3. Some of the dialogue is so painful I'm embarrassed to watch it but then I power thru it and finally get to a high quality action scene. Former spy works w former girlfriend, his mom, and a fair weather friend to solve some problems in sunny Florida. It's completely believable and socially redeeming.

So let's hear it.

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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

i actually stand on burn notice, it's campy but fun and the cia is maybe at it's most correct portrayal in slopular media: an evil cabal that you can never get untangled from. also bruce campbell, who's just a real treat.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

I highly recommend the series Hanna, it's like John Wick action, the CIA and the USA are unequivocally evil antagonists and they are explicitly using their secret super assassin program to plant child soldier sleep agents in places to take out left wing and anti-imperialist agitators and just regular environmental activists that are not even militant (though these are only noticeable if you freeze frame on a specific dossier from one of the later seasons that is otherwise just a generic intel plot device).

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

another fan. dozens of us.

[–] Commie_Chameleon@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Agreed. I have cozy memories of watching it over summer break on the USA network, along with White Collar (I barely remember this one but it’s probably copaganda) and Psych.

[–] OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

White Collar is absolutely copaganda and also I don't remotely want Neal, I just want his hats. And maybe his apartment.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

The costume dept must have been the biggest part of that show's budget

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same. Psych was a campy favorite of mine.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Looking back, all of the "characters wanted" shows were copaganda. Every single one.

[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

‘When you’re burned…’

My wife and I will randomly say this to each other whenever a phrase brings it up “damn I burned the toast” “when you’re burned…”