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Topic	What are your thoughts of shows being Americanized for the USA?
kangolcone 07/17/19 3:00:12 PM #26:	ParanoidObsessive posted... I don't really give a shit, because I'm not a weeb, and I get the fact that 90% of the audience may not understand regional references or cultural quirks of other countries. I thought this was going to be a topic about shows from one country being adapted in another (like the UK Office being adapted into the US Office, or Friends being adapted into the UK as Coupling, or the occasional (terrible) attempts to redo shows like Red Dwarf in the US), and that's a subject I actually tend to be more opinionated about. If only because I've seen multiple UK shows I like that were adapted into terrible US versions. But some adaptations like that are good, so it's hard to say it's always a bad thing. I thought this too. I recently heard it goes the other way too. Theres a show in Russia called Its Always Sunny in Moscow. --- Annoy a Conservative, punch a Nazi. <cite>kangolcone posted [p:924817864] in What are y... [t:77864641]...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>I don't really give a shit, because I'm not a weeb, and I get the fact that 90% of the audience may not understand regional references or cultural quirks of other countries. I thought this was going to be a topic about shows from one country being adapted in another (like the UK Office being adapted into the US Office, or Friends being adapted into the UK as Coupling, or the occasional (terrible) attempts to redo shows like Red Dwarf in the US), and that's a subject I actually tend to be more opinionated about. If only because I've seen multiple UK shows I like that were adapted into terrible US versions. But some adaptations like that are good, so it's hard to say it's always a bad thing. </quote> I thought this too. I recently heard it goes the other way too. Theres a show in Russia called Its Always Sunny in Moscow. --- Annoy a Conservative, punch a Nazi.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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