“A Boring Dystopia” doesn’t mean everything in our world is boring.
It means we’re living in a dystopia, but instead of supervillains and the stuff like we’re used to seeing in future-dystopian media, we just get overcharged for bread and made to live in tents.
It’s evil, but in the most fucking boring way possible.
“Happy”, I think a lot of people overlooked it because Christopher Meloni having a cartoon unicorn as a companion seemed cheesy, but the show wasn’t afraid to dive into truly horrific plot lines.
The less-grounded corner of my brain thinks the show was cancelled because it was openly talking about skeletons in the closets of network executives.
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