Nuance and intelligence don't exist anymore. It's race and gender diversity just shoved unapologetically into your face these days, with scripts written by non binary arts students and directed by someone equally detached from any real life experience. The writers just try to put in as much woke crap as possible. Hey presto, you have a series. Add in some indie bongo music and you get either a Netflix or BBC series.

Red and Blue Army!

netflix are royally f***ing any interest in films.
should be re-named Wokeflix.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

He was briefly in Quadrophenia as a projectionist and he didn’t sound at all Brummie in that!

yes.
remember this used be done 80s / 90s with VHS videos spinning out a very similar named, only on video rip off
of a big hollywood film.

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

Only watched the recent two series. Nice show with down to earth characters simply trying to get by whilst experiencing extraordinary situation. It's a tried and tested formula for good, simply, TV.

The problem with American TV is that it's always written to a target demographic they can sell too. Also, typical of America is that every series has to be bigger, louder and more epic than the last.

There's a few Netflix Original shows I like, but you always get the feeling that the programme was developed by A) Looking at a demographic they need to sell more content to B) Finding things that demographic used to be interested in C) Make an programme.

All the plot lines are far too obvious.
Attempts to be PC lack subtly and tend to be fairly condescending.

British writers tend to write something they think is good, and then look to sell it. Which is a much better way of writing creative TV.

Well observed regarding the PC point, I'm all for series addressing fresh or different perspectives because clearly those have been lacking in the past (when there is no need for that to be the case), but in trying to address that they can often come across as a box ticking exercise rather than fleshing characters out who happen to fit a specific demographic profile.

I do think there's a different approach across the pond. It's very much 'follow the money'. You also see it in the way that even quality series go on far too long and often go off the rails as they attempt to squeeze the last bit of commercial success out of them.