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‘Minimum Wage’ Review: Netflix’s Format-Breaking Hangout Series Makes Good on the Promise of Short Episode Running Times Netflix (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Minimum Wage makes for an amusing, energetic, instantly disposable binge.

That's what people want, I suppose. Just mind-numbing distraction. Modern day bread and circuses.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Isn't that all entertainment so some degree? Television/movies, video games, amusement parks...It's all just escapism from the daily grind.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Some (most?) entertainment is meant to be provoking to some degree. I would say cheap media is meant to be escapism and nothing more, but media trying to be worthwhile should stick with you somehow. Leave an impression, start a fandom, give you new perspectives, whatever it may be.

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