Atlanta, Black Mirror, Severance, Silo, The Terror: Infamy, Slow Horses, The Bear, Black Bird, Baby Reindeer, Station Eleven, Russian Doll. Most of what I've seen recently that was produced in the last few years has been primarily about people who are not wealthy or privileged.

I read some article the other day, how they had noticed a heavy attempt, by Hollywood, to glamorise and humanise ultra rich, like Yellowstone. Is that so we just sit back and shut up and let the billionaires be. Fk that.

Bob's burgers.

Normal people are boring. I want to watch TV shows about wizards.

New Taskmaster series just dropped with Jason Mantzoukas for us plebs.

Are we due for a new fat man, hot wife sitcom?

What really resonated with me was watching shows like Roseanne.

The article then goes on to ignore The Connors which aired from October 2018 to April 2025.

Yes, if you ignore all of the shows about "normal people", you'll suddenly find no shows about "normal people".

Skills issue.

The biggest reason I dropped Succession during first season. I have no interest in watching some rich fucks and on top of that there is not one likable character in that show.

Japan has an incredible wealth of entertainment in their TV shows. I highly reccomend KASSO! Its ninja warrior but with skating they have English guests and translations on their YT channel.

Usually non US shows and Movies are alot better imho. Another something you should not sleep on are UK TV shows. Like: The Responder a show about a first responder who is struggling with mental illness and the pressure of his work.

So broaden your horizon, The industry is not as bad as you think

Why do you need a show about normal people?

You're surrounded by normal people

Shameless: "am I a fucking joke to you?"

Since the wealthy fund the shit, anything to do with the commoner is portrayed as trashy, just above literal refuse with regard to usefulness, while the wealthy are portrayed as the righteous and just, with money to fix all the problems they face and any moral failings related to them is the result of something outside their wealth.

!trailerparkboys@lemmy.world

I haven't seen it but I've heard good things about Adolescence?

I was gonna say that British TV has more realistic or normal people. However I haven't seen much of that recently. It's mainly Taskmaster and Black Mirror.

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE

(Also please Disney don't fuck up the sequel)

TV Broadcasters: "oh, so you want more shitty 'reality TV' then?"

I adored superstore. I love how I think back of the show and nothing comes to mind because everything was painfully ordinary.

Judge Judy, Hoarders, and Cops

I am sick of "history" shows and movies that are completely inaccurate. There are so many unbelievable stories that fiction always takes a backseat for me if I were to choose between a history or sci-fi book for example. Shogun is extremely guilty of this, it had great production but the details were sickeningly incorrect, in Japan people were pissed because it's an opportunity to teach about culture and every Japanese knows the real story and details of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Americans have already been propagandizing and manipulating history in many ways since decades past, there is much change to be done.

Such content already exists.

There's a Streisand Effect that occurs when writing about what you don't want instead of lifting up what you do want.

Here it is:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287254/

That was a joke due to the English name, but Brazil is actually pretty good at making shows and movies about normal, ordinary people.

Watch Andor, if you wanna see ordinary people fight the power

Detectorists

Northern Exposure

Abbott Elementary

All Creatures Great and Small

Black Books

Bored to Death

Bridget & Eamon

The Cafe

Cheers

The Cleaner

The IT Crowd

King of the Hill

Letterkenny

Peep Show

Shameless

Spaced

Tacoma FD

Taxi