How do y'all feel about
BB's use of background music?
I've always liked it (it played a big role in the eliteness of "Crawl Space"), but this was the first episode during which truly annoyed me. That burst of distorted noise that played at ~3:30 as Walt was creeping through his house felt unsubtle and manipulative. I was like, "Okay, I get it, I'm supposed to feel tense here. Increasingly tense! Thanks for the heads-up!"
Was wondering what the collective opinion about it is--both throughout the series and in this week's episode.
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I called it "literary" because it was actually making critiques about our culture much in the way that a novel does and most TV shows don't.
It's still not the right word, though I won't belabor the point any further.
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It's annoying when people are always super defensive about their favorite shows and then we never actually end up discussing them in an interesting way.
This so much. Along with the whole "X >>> Y and if you don't think so you're a ****ing moron" mode of 'criticism', nothing is so quick to torpedo discussions into aggro volleys of inanity.
Oh yeah,
House of Cards is a great show. Most of the surface-level "statements" it's making are silly and caricaturized, but the meta-level ones I suspect it's toying around with are pretty sweet imo.