My answer, or at least more questions, are below the fold. What’s the deal? How can people who spend hours-days, even-bickering over the merits of Showgirls and Family Guy drop their verbal weapons and sing kumbaya together over some canceled HBO series? So “good” art is relative, huh? No one can define it objectively no one can agree on what it is.Įxcept The Wire. That’s right, folks: I’m becoming a pop culture relativist. Because of that, I’m coming to the conclusion that looking for an objective measure of a piece of art is an impossible task. Well, not answers we can agree on, anyway. We at Overthinking It haven’t come up with real answers to any of these questions. “story”), or based on other criteria? Why does everyone consider The Simpsons of the 90s to be superior to The Simpsons on air today? And why can’t I like the new Battlestar Galactica even though everyone tells me it’s the pinnacle of televisioned arts?
#THE WIRE SEASON 1 MOVIE#
What’s more interesting to me is that, over those two years, we keep returning to the same question over and over and over again: How do we judge pop culture? Is there an objective way of saying “This TV show is Good” or “This movie is Bad,” and, if so, how do we do it?īeneath that giant rhetorical umbrella drip these fascinating sub-questions: Is Glee “good” because it’s entertaining, or is it “bad” because it doesn’t have a coherent continuity? Should we judge Avatar based on its opsis (Aristotle for “spectacle”), based on its mythos (a.k.a. Hooray, good for us, pats on the back, etc. Overthinking It, if you haven’t heard, is two years old.
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