It better be better than Poochinski

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    Leftist prestige drama in the vein of Andor about the German peasants war, nobles are bastards, Martin Luther a piece of shit, Thomas Muentzer and Florian Geyer are cool AF.

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    A show where every week Jeff Goldblum shows up on set having received absolutely no instruction or script and just has to react to whatever is going on.

    It could be a period drama one week and a scifi thriller the next, and he just has to roll with it.

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    An anthology series set in the world of Conan the Barbarian. Each episode is the story has travelling warriors taking their ease by the fire at night. One of them tells a story. It won’t matter that the stories have no continuity or even need to have the same tone, just that they’re exciting tales of glory.

    Making the end-of-season stinger I want could be expensive from a salary perspective, though. Imagine this.

    The last episode of the first season. The warrior telling the story of the episode finishes. His audience gives nods of respect for the expert telling of an epic tale. The warrior turns to a hooded figure on his right who hasn’t said a word. The warrior says “Speak, friend. Have you any stories worthy of these men?”

    And the hooded figure raises his head, and it’s Arnold Schwarzenegger smirking.

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    Copaganda drama with pop-up analysis from real legal experts. Includes corny Blind Date style graphics and bell that goes off every time Constitutional rights are violated.

    Shark Tank, but the panel is four minimum wage workers and the guests are VCs who have to justify their current wealth.

    A McLaughlin Group style panel discussion but one guest each week is an intentional novelty (reads ChatGPT responses verbatim, foreigner with know knowledge of local politics making it up on the fly, Marjorie Taylor Greene)

    South Sesame Street, from the writers of The Wire.

  • The title would be “The Hero” and it is a Dramedy about Ahmed Chalabi cheering the Bush administration from the sidelines early on and eventually working with the Neocons to do regime change in Iraq, and having to come to terms with the fact that he got in over his head and is working with various people that are some combination of evil and idiots.

    • Or, among somewhat similar lines “The Believer” and it is a White American that converts to Islam and joins the Mujahedin at the very beginning of the Soviet-Afghan War and then “Forrest Gumps” his way through all of the events of “Muslim Extremism” from then until he dies in the Navy Seal raid that kills Bin Laden in Pakistan.

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    Adapted from an idea I had for a video game: medieval fantasy setting, our protagonist is a local hero renowned for using his array of rare, magical weapons to defeat monsters and thus has the adoration of the locals and the king (who, for the purposes of the show, is one of those title rich money poor nobles). However the back story is that he was a scruffy commoner who had to take out a shit ton of debt from loan sharks to be able to afford his armory and live out his dream of being the chosen one hero.

    So the episodes focus on him trying to balance between keeping up his appearances, fight the monsters, not get his kneecaps broken by the loan sharks, and clandestinely doing dirty jobs that get him enough gold to keep the loan sharks at bay but would ruin his reputation if the peasants and nobles found out.

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    I want basically undercover boss, but not undercover and with rock solid legal contracts preventing retaliation. Make their CEOs do the shit work while they are hazed by low level employees and pelted with rocks.

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    How to Blow Up a Pipeline… but every season a different group gets together do to some direct action. Emphasis on how nobody is “Rambo” and it takes everybody doing what they can to complete the project.

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      A movie or video game told from the perspective of a normal person is sorely missing from our lives. Like it’s just about some guy watching his house get destroyed by fireballs every week because he’s stuck living next to the adventurers’ tavern where barfights between high level wizards happen.

  • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Game of thrones but in Muslim Spain with assorted Christian, Muslim, and Jewish characters coming from different genders and classes (not just nobility) and also with various mythological creatures from each respective faith being real.