Adam Conover, star of “Adam Ruins Everything”, has a new series called “The G Word With Adam Conover”. Pretty much the same type of show, but it focuses in on how our government works…and doesn’t work. The first week was about how the government regulates the food industry, and the second episode (the one I am currently watching) is about weather.
Two of the producers are Barack and Michelle Obama, and the former Prez makes an appearance in the first episode.
Anyone else seen this?
Hmm. I used to love Adam Ruins Everything but he got too preachy and soapboxy.
This could be decent, thanks
I’ve watched the first two. I’ve enjoyed it so far. Altho’ I do admit to being a cynic. And Adam’s way of trying to phrase everything so that he sounds neutral in the hopes that he may be able to get some of the “others” to listen is a little tiresome. Bc I know it will be feckless.
Just educate us and don’t bother walking on eggshells please.
Adam Ruins Everything is perfectly fine UNLESS it’s anything historical and then it gets into “Second Opinion Bias” or whatever it’s called. There’s plenty of website and YouTube videos breaking down what he gets wrong, it’s basically “Okay you learned in school the American propaganda version of events, well now I’ll tell you the REAL story!!!” except “the real version” is just “the other side’s” opinion taking at face value. Basically you trade in one propaganda account for another.
What do you think of this series?
I’m a fan of Adam C–I’ve watched both of his TV shows and listen to his podcast. I would sort of categorize him as the Bizarro Joe Rogan. At the end of Ruins Everything he admitted that his show’s perspective was skewed towards the creator’s/producer’s world view, and that’s okay with me. Isn’t that the case with any show like that these days?
I enjoyed Adam Ruins Everything. I have watched the first episode of The G Word. The occasional cursing or crudity annoys me. If someone is speaking extemporaneously, and happens to curse while talking about something for which they have strong feelings, I don’t mind. However, this is a scripted show. He has planned out what he is going to say. To me, the cursing or crudity is distracting and seems like an artificial lowbrow attempt to be edgy, as though it will make people think the content is cool or something.
Some people actually talk like this in real life though (like almost everyone I’ve met in real life in a non-work setting). And the non-cursing speech is just a requirement for being on cable.
It makes it sound far more realistic to me, tbh.
Some? LOTS of people (including me) talk like that in real life… when speaking spontaneously. I also accept cursing or crudity in dramas - the actors are portraying characters who are, within the “reality” of the show, speaking spontaneously. Scripted and rehearsed cursing as part of a more documentary style narration just seems weird to me. If David Attenborough was discussing the predatory behaviors of stoats toward rabbits in a video clip he had already seen many times, and the program scripted in a “F*ck, they’re vicious!” as though he were somehow surprised, that would also seem odd. 