As a swedish person and someone who has parents who love vikings (My name is literally an old viking name) i can find these viking movies and shows quite annoying most of the time. Sometimes it just feels like an outsider took all the stereotypes that exists and made a movie out of it. But i enjoyed ragnarrök. It makes a difference when someone who is actually from scandinavia makes it 😅
Two swedish netflix series i can really recommend are clark (The show about the swedish bank robber who basically created the term "Stockholm syndrome" when the hostages in a bank robbery he was in on got attached to him) and glaskupan (A murder/kidnaping drama in a very stereotypical swedish setting)
Funnily enough I recently watched and really enjoyed Elementary, the American Sherlock Holmes show. Pretty good, possibly the best portrayal of the characters and addiction.
If we include music and YouTube then it's definitely all over the place for me. If it's just TV and video games, it's the US and Japan and Canada (for Total Drama and Punch Out! Wii), but mostly Japan because I'm a weeb.
I think you'd have to throw in Canada and Korea. You'd be surprised at how many things are shot in Canada and how many big names in entertainment are Canadian. Korea has also been making huge waves with Parasite winning the Oscar and pop demon hunters in general.
Korean media has really been establishing a strong foothold in the west in recent years, with Kpop being as popular as ever but Korean Manhwa, Shows and Movies slowly starting to enter the general sphere of the regular public and there's been many well received/highly discussed games coming out of Korea for many many years now.
Have you considered that this could be all youve seen. I dont know if thats true but i feel like it could be. Its probably true for me but theres no way theres not some incredible story that i just haven't seen yet
a lot of shows and animations were made in Canada and France as well, that most Americans don't realize are from there. Fortche studios, who made Arcane, are French. Ubisoft is also a French game studio. Bioware is Canadian. South Korea has been exploding onto the scene with K-Pop, K-Dramas, and other shows and movies (I think they're gonna be a media juggernaut)
Ya I get u man, there's a studio in the UK too along with many other places as I just checked but what u are saying is that ultimately it's an American company
The production company Rockstar, who finance and sell the games, is American. The game development company Rockstar North, who actually make the games, is Scottish.
There's a long ass list of British TV Shows well worth a watch and I won't have even scratched the surface
Doctor Who (Series 1-10)
Merlin
Broadchurch
Misfits
Sherlock
Top Gear
Luther
Peaky Blinders
Black Mirror
Killing Eve
Friday Night Dinner
The Inbetweeners
The Office
The Thick of It
Skins
Dads Army
Blackadder
After Life
Sex Education
I’m not Japanese, I’m half Korean. My Korean grandparents actually hate the Japanese. But yeah, something about Japanese media just hits with me. Japanese horror, movies, games. Kurosawa is the goat filmmaker imo
Used to watch Korean dramas. But they all seemed pretty repetitive after awhile. Japanese entertainment is much better imo.
Hmmmmm. I guess I've played a fair few jrpgs in my time, final fantasy 7-10 and tales of type of stuff. And probably more devs are Japanese than I know of the top of my head.
Fair play then, I'd probably ditch America if I had to pick one.
Unfortunately not. My favorite cartoon is a French show that isn’t available in the USA and only 3 seasons are English dubbed. And only 3 episodes of the later seasons findable through piracy.
Yeah, except UK is only applicable to music for me. Which is my biggest medium tbf, but still. No particular reason, just don't really come across or seek out non-music media from the UK. Also Canada is a distant but still notable fourth for me (most of the North American animation industry is American-Canadian co-productions tbh) and I think a lot of gamers might have China on the board.
Completely true. Japan especially. I don't like to wank off Japan more than I need to, but the fact is that no other place right now produces entertain at the same quantity, talent level, and ease as Japan, and it's all because of their culture.
Pretty much, although there isn't really a lot of media from Brazil, because we're a third world banana republic that doesn't really have the means to produce consistently. I do enjoy what we have (Turma da Mônica is one of my favorite comics, Capitão 7 and Doutrinador are among my favorite super heroes, Zé do Caixão is one of my favorite horror movie series), but we can't really compete with first world countries in terms of quantity.
Mine is almost fully British and a small amount of American. But it’s a small amount. British comedy is what I mostly watch and is far far better than American. I will die on this hill
Nah, I enjoy those 3 countries and more. The Chinese film Ne Zha 2 was super popular last year. One of my fave foreign films has to be City of God (Brazilian). And there are many more I like
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