I’m mainly referring to two different shows, The Pitt and The Bear. Both feature realistic (well 99% realistic) representations of the portrayed workplace, and usually involve a lot of yelling, stress etc. While normal shows about these places will involve those things, they’re usually not the main focus.
Idk, I like that The Pitt is realistic for a lot of reasons. But I just can’t watch it. I’m stressed enough as is, I don’t need secondhand stress from an ER.
I felt this way watching The Office. It’s funny but watching people constantly in some toxic workplace is not what I want to do on my time off.
vicariously living your jim and pam fantasy while at your second job is what watching the office feels like it was aiming for.
vicariously living your jim and pam
fantasynightmare while at your second job is what watching the office feels like it was aiming for.
Uncut Gems had me that way
I haven’t watched these shows, but I think I know what you’re referring to. I felt super stressed watching Uncut Gems. I liked the movie a lot, but I really don’t want to watch it again. I feel like the second time I watched it was even more stressful than the first, and that was more than enough for me.
Well, knowing the ending of that movie (spoiled in a compilation) before watching the film, I would say that
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it was basically ‘Death of A Salesman’ levels of fumble and error, that leads to the inevitable conclusion, but at least the gamble actually paid out.
🤷 So who’s to say it’s a bad thing? / s
Don’t watch Beau is Afraid. That movie had me squirming all the way through.
I don’t know if it is a new thing or if maybe the genre is just getting more refined. Lots of those occupational reality shows like ice road truckers or deadliest catch were meant to be stress inducing but due to the quality constraints of using real people not actors and editing for story instead of writing it, they could only really hook into people who already had an understanding of the situation.
