When Satan Produces Content
Amazon Prime, and the Culture War, are becoming awfully boring and predictable.
I confess, instead of chipping away at the enormous stack of fascinating and improving books threatening to topple over and kill me, I spent a lot of yesterday refreshing various feeds to see what was happening both in Texas and in the ACNA. Then I went one further into the world of self-devolution and watched the pilot and first episode of something called The Hazbin Hotel, produced by Amazon Prime, but available to watch on YouTube.
It is an animated show, if that’s what these half-hour wastes of time are called, where a mess of unappealing cartoonish characters writhe and shout and posture. Apparently, the pilot was made several years ago, and some YouTubers who ought to know better have been eagerly awaiting its forthcoming.
I am going to embed the preview, but I heartily encourage you not to investigate the program any further because as I clicked around, I ran into a lot of disgusting and foul language mixed with boring and trite show tunes. Let the viewer be warned—this is pure blasphemy of the sort that if Satan were given a little bit of money by Amazon to make something for his followers to watch (I speak in the social media sense of the word “follower”), it is exactly what he would produce. You can tell because it’s not that interesting and because it’s about a subject that matters to everyone—what is good and what is evil. One might, in a desultory way, click on it thinking it will be funny or ironic, be offended, and then, out of garden-variety ennui accidentally watch more, which I believe is the point of the exercise. Alright, all warnings out of the way, here it is:
So, as you can see, it looks like junk, mediocre peak 2024 viewing. “The Message” is so completely embedded into our collective cultural imagination that even Satan has to give way to a girl boss Mary Sue.
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