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trooperdx3117 t1_iudjeaw wrote

Reply to comment by Mr_Paladin in The Midnight Club Showcases the Best and Worst of Mike Flanagan's Narrative Obsessions by PetyrDayne

I've noticed this too and I think it has something to with this term I've heard called "viral-logues".

The idea being right now there are scenes in tv shows being written and framed in a specific way that they are easily screenshot able and shareable over Twitter and tik tok etc. The idea being people share them and make wild exclamations like "So true", "This speaks to me", "louder for the people at the back".

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Theotther t1_iudt25w wrote

Or Mike Flanagan had a deep love for gothic horror and American Gothic especially and wears that influence on his sleeve. And gothic literature is absolutely steeped in monologues or internal asides.

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pinkminerva t1_iue1jlq wrote

Not speaking on Mike Flanagan specifically, just on the general increase in monologues in movies and shows- some of them are very obvious award shows bait, whether it be for the actor or the writer. And the more commonplace it gets, the more unconvinced I am. Like when a character launches into a monologue and the scenery chewing just screams obvious and unsubtle 'LOOK AT ME IM ACTING' vibes...it takes me out of the scene.

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nayapapaya t1_iue27k4 wrote

I don't really buy this idea because monologues due to their length are inherently not easy to screenshot and share.

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SeanOuttaCompton t1_iueq4eb wrote

Yeah there’s like one monologue that I know if that’s gone viral and it was the chicanery one from better call Saul- so a series that already had a dedicated, hardcore fan base to begin with. Blaming it on the darn kids and their memes seems a little boomery to me

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Asiriya t1_iuhi4by wrote

That was earned though. That was like three seasons of malice finally exploding on to the screen. It wasn’t monologue-o’clock every episode

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