The most reactionary program on Australian television and maybe the worst influence on our current condition is The Block
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The most reactionary program on Australian television and maybe the worst influence on our current condition is The Block
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Scott Cam vs. Kevin McCloud deathmatch, adjudicated by Costa Georgiadis
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@liamvhogan McCloud would win on snark alone.
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The final boss is Maggie Beer, who will mete mercilessly justice from her onyx throne, in the central chamber of her remote Southern Highlands fortress
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Ross Macfarlanereplied to Liam :fnord: last edited by [email protected]
@liamvhogan while she delicately sips verjuice from a champagne flute
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Look I shitpost a bit. But. Television marketing has always sold lifestyle shows on the basic premise that consuming things will make you happier, that’s not new.
What’s pernicious about The Block and its ilk is the connection of the notions of living a good life and the housing price, and success being judged by the sale. Talk about the concentrated evil of Australia over the past decades
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@liamvhogan would watch
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@liamvhogan Its something that people now and in the future will probably wave off with "its a product of its time". That being said, I agree that it reinforces the idea that house prices going up and up equals good and normal- and provides absolutely no counterbalance to it.
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The only competitor it really has is British reality television, which trades on wild looking-and-pointing cruelty to people with terrible lives, but for my money The Block has the edge on badness purely because it idolises and gives the sheen of ‘merit’ to windfall gains
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The only worthy Australian house designer in my adult lifetime has been Salim Mehajer. End thread
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[obviously the most objectively evil game show of all our adult lives has been The Apprentice, but that needs no explanation why.]
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@liamvhogan my vote is for peter Cundall - ww2 and Korea vet and also communist
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If it helps, old TV media recently fudged their ratings to triple the dying viewership and Seven and Nine's market capitalisation has collapsed by 40 per cent in the last year.
They're dying in real time.
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@liamvhogan Liam.
