10K Posts Tv Club: Pls Like
Added 2023-08-18 10:12:09 +0000 UTCThis week, we watch the BBC Three webseires "Pls Like", starring Liam Williams, Tom Stourton and Emma Sidi. The show, starting in 2016, was a satirical exploration the world of Youtubers as a time when the platform started getting taken more seriously by advertisers, brands and wider popular culture.
We discuss what the show was trying to explore, what observations it got right, and of course, the challenges of trying to make a show about the internet, for television. We also discuss Youtube culture in the 2010s, reminisce about the big Zoella ads that at one point covered every London tube station, and discuss what happened to some of the big Youtube stars who struggled to make it on other platforms.
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I should remember that this is a world in which 'recent comedy' could conceivably include Ted Lasso
Tovfly
2023-08-23 12:54:20 +0000 UTCabsolutely didn't mean Derry Girls which I liked a lot
Ten Thousand Posts
2023-08-23 12:31:45 +0000 UTCAlthough not laughing at (what I assume is) Derry Girls, don't get that
Tovfly
2023-08-22 18:44:04 +0000 UTCI largely disagree with Phoebe about modern comedy but I can see where she's coming from - in the last 5 or so years comedy on TV doesn't really exist without it being a comedy-drama, and what that is is a drama that has amusing dialogue. Comedy isn't necessarily the goal, hence the lack of 'jokes'. Ellie and Natasia was a really good sketch show but there's only like an hour and a half of it, and their pilot was maybe 4-5 years ago? I think I'd be surprised to learn how old the more recent comedy shows I can think of actually are.
Tovfly
2023-08-22 18:43:27 +0000 UTC
