• etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    The Leftovers. It seems like a show about the end of the world, but then it’s not. Amazing show one of my all time favs.

  • beejboytyson@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 hours ago

    Don’t watch shows. Watch videos essays from people with philosophy degrees. Watch the videos where they talk about scary things being applied to your life. Or ask questions you’re scared to ask and look for information about it. Gl

    • cm0002@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Bro, sometimes you just need to take a break from all of that and watch something dumb. The “bread and circus” is real, but you shouldn’t completely abstain from it either. Use it to rest and recharge when you can

      • beejboytyson@lemmy.world
        1·
        16 minutes ago

        You’re the one that wanted “deep”. If you think that gob bluth is a paragon of truth go ahead. Just don’t eat French fries and call it vegetables.

    • cm0002@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      4 hours ago

      This is the 3rd time I’ve seen something relating to Bojack today, might be time for a rewatch lmao

    • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
      21·
      14 hours ago

      “Stupid Piece of Shit” is great for asking people if this is how they think. Some people don’t know they have depression from critical thinking.

  • dustyData@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    The Bear. The show is just a bunch of people trying to process the grief of traumatic life experiences while simultaneously trying to survive the loss of a beloved person in common. All this through the power of cooking and yelling very loudly. The food is awesome though.

    • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 day ago

      As the show went on, I ketp thinking that it was so good, and the end was going to ruin it. That it had to have an end, and there’s no way it could be satisfying.

      And then it was perfect, and I loved it, and I watched the whole series over again.

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    I’m kinda surprised no one has said Midnight Mass. It revolves around suffering and the ideas of redemption.

    Honestly any of Flanagan’s work could be used for this question.

    The Haunting of Hill House is about loss and the grief of losing.

    Haunting of Bly Manor gets around to it slowly, but it also focuses on loss, though not entirely permanent.

    And The Fall of the House of Usher is just a sadistic chase of suffering and pain

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Easy answer would be the Galactica remake. The entire show is essentially watching humanity break down because of the collective weight of what it lost as a society.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Not shows, but video games.

    Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Death Stranding. Death Standing hit especially hard for me, since I was half-way through the game when my mom died, so the whole rest of the game I just could not apply things to that.

    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
      1·
      22 hours ago

      Outer Wilds. Easily the most profoundly moving experience I’ve ever had from playing a video game. And it does such a good job of starting off - and even remaining, to a degree - a fun, light-hearted story.

      If there’s anybody reading this who’s interested in the game, let me say a couple of things.

      1. Go in as spoiler-free as possible. The entire progression system is based on acquiring knowledge, and a lot of the power of the game comes from discovering everything for yourself, in your own way.

      2. Don’t treat it like a game. Instead put yourselves in the shoes of your character. See something that you think looks cool? Go and look at it. Don’t think “well, I should probably finish this area first…” Explore. Learn. Decide for yourself what your priority is.

      Loads of games call themselves open world, but are actually quite on rails. One trigger at the beginning of the game aside, Outer Wilds really is open world. One reason why watching other people play it is so much fun is that everybody really does have a completely different experience while playing it. One person will do something as the first thing they do, then someone else will do the same thing when they’re 80% of the way through. And the game is so well-designed that both ways is equally rewarding.

      Sorry, I tend to evangelise for this game a lot because it is, as I said above, a genuinely profound and moving experience.

    • medgremlin@midwest.social
      2·
      2 days ago

      Nier: Automata has a special place in my heart and I’m seriously considering getting a tattoo of Pascal because of that story thread.