Peep Show – The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made (2020)

I wish there were a somewhat acceptable, though controversial, way for us to distinguish between good and evil like how success is defined by disposable wealth. You can argue that society does not see it that, but there is no absolute way to denying it.

Yeah, I never empathized with Mark and Jez so his thesis falls apart for me. Maybe he’s the baddie?

That’s because it reads like a PR piece. Gauging interest or preseeding a reboot or rerelease.

please Jez, don’t talk about crack!!

I always refer to it as cringe humour too but for the reason that it makes me physically cringe seeing how they humiliate themselves in social situations - Like NO MARK PLEASE DONT DO THAT! DONT ACT ON THAT IMPULSE PLEASE! kinda thing.

As someone who loves peepshow I might have to finally give succession a go!

And then claims it’s a barbecue turkey, and eats it in front of her in an attempt to save face.

Thass a bad miss.

(Admittedly, the next show)

I always thought "the banality of evil" wasn't about minimizing the horror of his actions. It's not saying "what he did wasn't so bad," but "these horrible actions were done not by an obvious villain, but by someone personally unremarkable."

And people just ignore a number of very convincing anecdotes told to Lanzmann from Benjamin Murmelstein, someone who would know, including one with Eichmann personally helping trash the inside of a Vienna synagogue on Kristallnacht.

In addition to the push back there's the fact that Hannah Arendt -- who coined the phrase "banality of evil" -- was also a lover of Martin Heidegger.

Heidegger was an enthusiastic Nazi and Arendt also defended him. Some people see the "banality of evil" book as essentially being a defense of Eichmann.