Its almost like there is a huge audience made up of men, aged 30-70 that have disposable income, yet media companies actively avoid them in favor of niche groups.
Like, ur watching a list of multiple award winning and highly viewed shows....and ur claiming that Hollywood isn't pushing them...even though its Hollywood that makes them
Its just entertainment that is grounded in traditional storytelling and archetypes. Everyone wants to think they are super original and can do literally anything and it will be good as long as it has representation and bashes you over the head with its message. Things stand the test of time for a reason. Also literally got my oil changed 30 mins ago!
Right? You’re spot on, everyone wants to be unique, but most of these modern formulas have been tried and failed in one way or another. It’s the curse of the creative person, I guess, they don’t want to be seen as copying
As a woman in her late twenties, I adore this genre. I watched the Beekeeper yesterday, and I really enjoyed it! I think it fits into this genre as well...
I’m seeing a lot of recommendations for that one, and I was going to pass it up but now I’m interested. I think it’s just the name that threw me, I was thinking “how are they going to make a beekeeper an action star like in every Statham movie?”
Season 2 suffered from the same problem "The Boys" season 2 did - the writers/director added too much "Aren't we cool / We'll win because we're the good guys / Wink-nod > time to do hero stuff". > As you say, a low budget procedural level of writing. In essence there was way too much self-congratulatory behavior almost to the point of fourth wall breaking. When writers/directors do that, they lower the stakes involved for the characters and hence the tension and enjoyment of the viewers - the show becomes somewhat farcical. By episode 4 it was clear the main villain would die by being thrown out of a helicopter by Reacher. Season 1 was superior because it maintained the serious tone throughout. Shows should always maintain the risk that (at least some of) "the bad guys get away with it".
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, allow me to recommend Kings of the Wyld. It's a great read if you want a story about a band of retired mercenaries out to rescue one of the members daughters from a siege. Amazon should by the rights to make a series out of it, I believe Netflix would ruin it tbh.
This may sound strange coming from an unusually large man, but I do with Dad TV included more average-sized (particularly average-height) lead men being competent and capable. Our entertainment has taken such a strange turn that even the "geeks" now are 6'1 and cut. I appreciate Reacher as much as the next guy and was happily surprised that the second season didn't fall off, but I'm a little tired of 90% of adult men being portrayed as also-rans and fodder. That said, everything here is spot on. It's mind-boggling to me that the American entertainment sector can't figure out that dumping on this audience is at the core of most of its struggles, despite having the evidence right in front of it.
I think the emotional appeal of the tropes are: Dads want to protect their loved ones from a world with systems that are easily corrupted Dads want to provide a sense of order and righteousness when the rest of the world makes no sense Dads long for the bonds of kinship they often lose when they’re forced to “grow up” and tackle manhood alone Dads like to have one skill their loved ones can find no where else
Conclusion Dad’s like to be needed & want someone who they can count on. (It’s sad this seems to need to be found in fantasy but hopefully it encourages people to manifest it into reality with their own drive)
It isn't just a dad thing. These are just normal, masculine instincts in general. I think they just get more narrowly focused when men acheive fatherhood.
Yep. It’s interesting to look at what we gravitate to as “wish fulfillment”. Gives us a good place to look when we are feeling down, perhaps one of these pillars is missing.
My brother in law is also named Greg, and he showed up to a Halloween party with just bloody type clothes on he kept introducing himself as GreGory. I don't know if you've ruined your family's Halloween party yet with that terrible pun but I trust you'll remedy that.
That is so awful I absolutely love it! I desperately wish I had a family member or a friend named Gregory! I might have to name a pet in the future that just for that joke!
He's absolutely right about the music of the 70s (and the early-mid 80s). It really is the best. The best of back then is miles better than the best of today, and think there are actual studies about lyrical quality amd reading level that bear this out.
I (a 20-something yr old female) have watched almost all these shows and I love them! It just goes to show that, if something is truly written well nearly anyone will like it, no matter the supposed “target audience”
I think that the phenomena of women liking movies and TV that are made for men is far more common than the reverse being true. Media made for women focuses a great deal more on relationships and romance, while focusing far less on action and technical prowess. I think it's a lot easier for a show focusing on what appeals to men to also draw in women than it is for a show that appeals to women to also draw in men. It happens sometimes but the two tasks are not equal in difficulty for the creators.
Gotta give a call-out to "Person of Interest," which hits all the tropes with an ex-special ops operative teaming up with a super computer nerd, a (formerly) corrupt NY detective, and a supposedly-dead female assassin to rescue people that "The Machine" identifies as being in danger. Terrific show with a 4 1/2 season story arc. Just binged it as fast as my eyeballs would let me. Highly recommended.
A great series. Michael Emerson and Jim Caviezel were in top form. Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi, Kevin Chapman and Taraji P Henderson were also great cast mates. Jonathan Nolan makes some great TV. I'm looking forward to the Fallout series on Amazon Prime.
The funny thing is that it's 'Dad TV', but it's absolutely also marketed towards women (lots of handsome actors with shirts off 'tending to their wounds' and steamy historical romance novel moments). These are shows everyone can get into and not worry about anything but being entertained.
Yep. It’s funny that media is “rediscovering” this genre when it’s a pretty classic formula. And yeah, Reacher s2 got hilarious with the shirtless bit. He got cut in the stomach just so he could dab at in the mirror, and it was a scratch, lol
"Hidden in your town or city, are the poor, the addicted, the imprisoned, and the loney." And I'm the only one that can beat them into submission!? "And they need saving." Ah... I need to apologize to a few people real quick.
i love the "men saving the innocent" trope i still love the "prince saving the princess trope" too. I also enjoy it when a women and man take turns saving each other with their respective skills, and they don't even want to give us that. Hollywood is gaslighting us trying to convince us that we don't like it.
Indeed, and the gaslighting is the worst part. It’s very clear that none of the audience, even the women, are into the girlboss, yet they refuse to believe it and tell us we’re wrong. The stubborness is almost impressive
This used to be NORMAL TV. Back in my teens NBC Tuesday nights were A-Team, Riptide, & Hunter. Shows like Airwolf, Blue Thunder, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, MacGuyver, Magnum, Simon & Simon filled hours of TV times lots every week. Men loved watching those shows. And the women actually liked them as much as the guys (though for rather different reasons).
@@bossfan49 A lot of that list reaches back into the 70s when my family didn't have a TV (we were pretty poor back then and couldn't afford one). And you can go further back to all the Great TV Westerns like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Maverick, Rawhide . . . It used to be understood by Hollywood that half their TV audience was guys falling asleep on their couches after a long day at work. I guess that around 2010, they just figured that all those guys were watching ESPN now and they didn't need to bother making dramas for them anymore. (Or maybe it was because you stopped making GOOD shows for them, and they left for other places looking for good shows to watch.) And, don't forget that all of these shows had large WOMEN audiences fanning themselves every time Magnum or Rick Hunter or Bo Duke smiled at the camera (as much or more than the guys drooling over Daisy Duke's shorts). Magnum's audience was actually more WOMEN than men because of Selleck's sex appeal. Hollywood also used to make shows for the older audience (like Matlock and Murder She Wrote). Did that audience disappear, or did Hollywood just assume those people watched Fox News or Turner Classic Movies so they didn't bother trying to make shows for them anymore, either. By that logic, Hollywood should bail on all the "woke" stuff for "modern audiences" because that particular audience doesn't watch TV at all. They're here on RUclips, or more likely over on TicTok.
As a dad of 2, and a veteran... Every. Single. Store we go to, I'm running scenarios on "what if an attacker comes in. What If they have a knife? What if there's a bomb?" Etc. I have anywhere from 10 to 40 different scenarios on speed dial for a situation. And before I was a dad? Before I joined the military. 5-10 plans. Protecting my mom or my sisters was my job back then. It never goes away.
@bros4654 as a kid, my parents lost me cause I hid in one to pop out and scare them. I'm acutely aware of the "hide for safety" potential, as well as "check for hostiles" potential. Lol
I personally love it how there are so many shows and movies today, trying to subvert the tropes, or reverse the tried and tested storytelling principles in some way only to fail miserably. Sure, thise things can be done well, but its extremely difficult to do so, since tropes aren't tropes because of some arbitrary guy in a suit said so. Tropes are tropes because they work, and because people like seeing them.
"..but it's extremely difficult to do so..." Either it looks that way because it's extremely difficult or current writers are so bad that understanding the standard hero's journey material enough to effectively subvert it, is beyond them. I like to think it's a bit of both, but heavily leaning towards the latter.
@@613harbinger316 subverting something well is always more difficult than just making it. The necessity to understand the material being subverted it's really separate from the difficulty of subversion, since you don't only need to understand it, but basically know everything there is to know about a trope to subvert it well.
YES! I’m glad someone else agrees that tropes are not always bad. They can be used lazily, but really trope is just short for “thing that gets used a lot because it freaking works”.
I need to bump that up in the queue. It’s like an everyman who gets screwed by the mob so he goes crazy on the whole operation right? Sounds amazing already
I'm A female who was in high school when the original Equalizer was on. They screwed us fans by putting it and Stingray on at the same time. I'm one of the fans who think they should have gotten Edward Woodwards son to be the new Equalizer.
I’m a woman & yet connect far more to shows like 24, Leverage, Hell on Wheels, Reacher, Strike Back, Justified, and Seal Team than any of the shows that are supposedly geared towards me w/ tons of strong female representation and endless girl power + girl boss BS. So if those kind of series are dad TV, consider me a FATHER. Haha.
Another great dad TV show that ended a decade ago was USA's Burn Notice. It's a show about a burned spy stranded in Miami who uses his espionage and McGuyver-like problem solving skills to help the innocent with a hot former IRA member and Bruce Campbell as he investigates and hunts down the people in the CIA who betrayed him and ruined his life, and maybe he learns to be a better person along the way. Jeffrey Donnovan was awesome in that series. He really gave off that fun, personal, but also kinda scary and intense vibe that is integral to dad TV leads. I'd even include The Walking Dead into that category too considering the way the main character Rick Grimes (and later Daryl Dixon) was portrayed. It was fundamentally all about finding/protecting his family and community and rebuilding a rightly ordered society amidst the chaos. Falling Skies was on at the same time as the other two. When the main character isn't a freedom fighter defending the world and his community from an alien invasion, he's trying to keep his family together. The main characters of all three seasons fit neatly into the dad TV/masculine hero archetype.
I have no idea how I forgot Burn Notice when it’s such an amazing show. Wife and I are now revisiting the classic USA lineup. Burn Notice, Psych, White Collar, Monk. All top tier
The Boys is cool for me because of how in-depth a lot of its advertising is. Vought International (the massive company in The Boys universe that creates all the superheroes) has their own RUclips channel where they create ads that take place in their universe, and EVERYONE'S in on it. It's interesting. It's also funny how you mentioned a lot of women like these shows. I recall the "dad bod" being hailed as great and it's also reassuring seeing that half the guys you mentioned just look like people I'd see at my local Target (Pedro Pascal being one of them)
I do love the spin The Boys took, I just have to take the gore in small chunks. Heh, chunks. Yeah, it’s pretty nice that a lot of women aren’t looking for a Grecian statue. Obviously they don’t want us TOO soggy, but I was quite surprised to learn the dad bod craze was not an elaborate prank
It was a damn cool line. My #1 of the season was “Don’t make a sound or I’ll rip your throat out and your last thought will be ‘holy crap he actually did it’”. Amazingly badass line, had me laughing
I couldn't make it past 3 episodes of Jack Ryan (too unbelievable and I would have smashed the TV if I heard him say "I'm an analyst" one more time), but Harrison Ford does reach peak Dad Film as Jack Ryan in Patriot Games. Seriously, if you did a Dad Film list, that should absolutely be at the top.
I love how Greg naturally mixes in genuinely good advice, especially for men, in almost every video, regardless of what's being discussed. It really helps me check myself and refocus on improving instead of falling back into the depressive, selfish, childish funk that modern culture is encouraging with 3rd/4th wave feminism and redpill stuff. I've never intentionally subscribed to those holistically (that said, I've fallen for a few red pill lies in the past), but those ideas still like to weasel in and drag my ability to grow and function as a proper man down into the mud. Getting a friendly reality check with each video is honestly one of my favorite parts of Greg's scripts at this point.
The power washing and lawn care segment got me. I caught myself a while back and I thought, am I old now? Is this equivalent to generations before me watching golf? I’m 39.
The pinnacle is guys building shelters out of dirt, leaves, grass, branches, etc. Every video his millions and millions of views and I'm convinced the entire audience is middle aged men who are convinced they are going to need to know how to do that one day.
Yes! Watching power washing before and afters and carpet cleaning is so satisfying. Also, bird watching is sneaking up on me. I don’t know what kind they are, but I DO like to just look at them now.
@@gregowen2022 I used to be cool. Now I've bought a birdseed feeder AND a hummingbird feeder, a book on North American birds and binoculars. Tho I've also put our cat tree in front of the windows overlooking the feeders...
Honestly, I think it's largely a competence kink. Mainly because in this time and age it's really difiicult to BE competent, or more likely to be periceved as comperent. But these guys are the deffinition of a competent man. And who wouldn't want to be like that, or to be with someone like that? And you are absolutely right that labeling their actions as "toxic" is bullshit. Like from an everyday female point of view: I would rather a Reacher to save me from mugging than to have to fight myself and most likely get injured if not killed because I don't know how to effectively take down a person. I could just as easily injure the attacker as to injure myself. And also, these protagonist don't do what they do for a payment, they do it because of their strong morals. Reacher didn't wait around to be thanked or repayed for stopping the highjacking. But unfortunatelly this is not that common nowadays. Guys often expect to be repayed for their help and if they arent, they become agressive. Reacher would never!
You hit the nail on the head. I recently discovered you and........ you are now my favorite movie breakdown/critic/person on youtube. And...... without it being weird I feel like you are my friend too :D Thanks for making great content.
HEY, just because you or I cant kick a car hard enough to set off the airbags doesnt mean Reacher couldnt. So......... you back right down, go touch some grass or something :D
I was watching Leverage back in the day when you had to wait a week for the next episode. Every single one was so unique it was actually insane by todays standards.
Don't know if this counts as "Dad TV", but I've been recently rewatching The Punisher and, as a woman, I can tell you that Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle is exactly the the kind of dad and husband a lot of women want. I miss when Marvel was good and full of good, strong men with capable women like Natasha and even Wanda (before Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness).
Natasha, Wanda, Agent Hill, Pepper... all great. Natash was the heart of the Avengers. She tried to help everyone on the team, and kept them in line when they got nuts. She tried to keep the team together and reason with both sides during Civil War.
Not a dad but I enjoyed Tulsa King, I cannot wait for season two also I really think Martin Starr's character is just gilfoyle laying low because he tries to hack the wrong person lol. Honestly a good cast for Tulsa King AND it's actually diverse, something another streaming show with an aging action star could learn from *cough FUBAR *cough*. Although honestly they're two very different things but I feel like they're both trying to capture the same audience, just one does it better.
The New Balance call-out was triggering... I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS THE BRAND I WORE!!! 😭 Also, Longmire is a great example too! (Netflix). He is the epitome of a taciturn, manly cowboy sheriff. Like if Maurice Walsh's Quiet Man was a sheriff in 21st century rural Wyoming.
World always needs dads shows and dad shows will always find a market. My oldest favourite dad show that I watched as a nephew and now as a uncle is The Rifleman and that’s from the late 50’s and it is Literally the base of all that’s brought up in this video
Greg for a second I thought you were gonna have a problem with the quips at the end of Reacher. I apologize for doubting you, I should’ve known better. Lol😂
Nope. Even as I heard them I knew they were cheesy and I didn’t care because they were so cool. I should have cut it in the video, but the top line of the season was “make a sound and I’ll rip your throat out and your last thought will be ‘holy crap he really did it’”. I was dying with that lien
Just a heads up Last Of Us Part 2 will SUCK, the game did. They get rid of Jole and make the girl lesbian while adding the literal She Hulk to represent "real women"
I think about the fall of the Roman Empire and Greece. Like, what led to their downfall? Are we on the same path? Those who don’t learn from history and what not.
If you segment the by "mean", "women", "conservative" and "liberal". Then, further segment the "liberal" side by race and sexual orientation, then "conservative men" becomes the biggest demographic by a wide margin. That is exactly what Hollywood has done.
The only part I'm stuck questioning is what if it's not Dad TV but just Man TV? I'm a 20 year old student but god I love most/all of these shows and tropes, as well as reading Lee Child and David Baldacci- I cannot be the only one
Being a dad is great, - you get to be a dad to your kids, you enter a kind of brotherhood with other dads, that brotherhood all kind of understand and share the same priorities & values, you also have a nice positive role in the world. Thats the good dads of course, bad dads dont fit in with all that. It also teaches you to be more dependable, responsible, compassionate and consistent. Thats all good stuff. Us dads just want to jave our home nice and look after our families. We deserve a bit of dad tv, thats not too much to ask for surely?
Agreed. Being a dad is easily one of top 3 best things to ever happen to me. I’m 100% convinced I’m better because I have little people I have to be better for
One of my favorite "dad" tv shows was Defiance, back when the SyFy channel was still a thing. I loved the dynamic between the war hero main character and his adopted alien daughter.
I definitely like Reacher and Tulsa king. I'm not sure if I'm a dad tv fan as while I do like an individual uses unique skills I don't feel enough have some nice comedy from unfortunate characters that are still climbing to the top than at a peak looking to another peak. Like recently started the Mentalist, and Arrested Development also love Psych, Deception, Republic of Doyle, Murdock Mysteries, and Elementary, probably forgetting some. To me while a dad that can protect you is important more so to me if at the end of the day can share a good laugh with and watch the fireworks than something too serious. Then again not a dad so who knows things can change from now to then.
Kicking a car hard enough to set off the airbags... NOT taking that bet... EITHER way. Years ago, I worked with a guy who accidentally hit a mid-sized dog, at about 60mph... It set off the airbags.
I'm a woman who loves Dad TV! The reason I don't like chick stuff is because it's got chick stuff in it!! That's what's so frustrating about superhero movies: too many women, too much yack-yack-yacking and no action! I miss action movies; even when they're bad, they're f**king fun and movies now are so joyless!
I enjoyed Leverage up to a point, and with Leverage, Redemption it was off to a good start. But Redemption got pretty ridiculous after a bit. And Justified: City Primeval just proved you can't go home again. Both shows felt like they were written by people who thought they knew what their target audiences wanted but just couldn't stick the landing.
Just cuz I watch Burn Notice and fantasize about going flying-squirrel on a rogue gunman, doesn't mean I fall into this category. I am quite sure that it is mostly Sigma Males, like myself, that checks the tire pressure of any car parked in the driveway and obsessively monitors the thermostat.
My recommendations is to look back in time, preferably with your dad, if possible. I'm in my 20s, and growing up, my dad would show me the classics from his day, Terminator, Rocky, Rambo, Bladerunner, Conan, Highlander, various Westerns (often Clint Eastwood and John Wayne classics). There was also some "newer" material like the Bourne series, the Expendables, and Escape Plan. At my grandparents' place, I would watch shows like Gunsmoke, the Andy Griffin Show, and Wagon Train. Just last month, my dad and I watched the Soldier with Kurt Russell and (because it's a Christmas movie) Die Hard. My point is, don't underestimate the existing library of material that stand the test of time.
Not your wheelhouse but there is an Anime called Frieren I would love to know your opinion about. It's got nothing to do with your usual topics, it's just really good and different, I get the feeling your reaction would be interesting.
Not a father but I would like to be. I often fantasize of protection my friends & family being powerful enough to protect a girl. Or to protect my little cousin or junior who I know I would do anything to protect them. (One of them I sadly had to it wasn’t in the violent way but the “snitch on her & her bf” to keep her safe.) You never want that fantasy to actually become reality. It isn’t pretty.
I really don't care about the stupid labels the media puts on things! Some of my favourite shows are supposedly 'dad shows'. I absolutely loved Reacher and Leverage is an amazing show! I'm a girl and really don't get the idea that women need to watch shows and movies only with women and they have to be diverse anf LGBT friendly whatever. I used to LOVE Marvel and Star Wars. Now I avoid both like the plague. I want to see strong men on screen, heroes, and if they are built like Captain America and Reacher even better. I definitely don't want to watch a movie about 2 unbearable karens and ms Marvel (who is she by the way? I stopped paying for Disney plus as I was tired of being bombarded with The Message! It really saddens me that all the great movies, made to entertain, are now an exception instead of the rule. At least Godzilla Minus One made my 2023 less depressing.
I never get tired of watching you bring your dad energy to your videos. Great video, Greg, and I couldn't agree more on some of these recommendations, especially Ted Lasso.
I appreciate your continued kind words and watching! Ted was so great. Even when they tackled themes that I would have rolled my eyes at in another show, they still pulled it off so well. I’m glad they didn’t overstay their welcome, but a part of me could use a fourth season….
I’m a foster parent, or was until I adopted my foster kid recently. Now I have to find some other service project until my oldest turns 18 and the state will let me take in more foster kids. That oldest works with our church for a program they have once a month to watch special needs kids so their parents can have a little break but know their children’s special needs are being met.
I got a muslim father in his early sixties that believed that American film has been since the 2000s, I have even seen this man binge a show so quick in my life and then told me to watch it. They must did something right with this one, hopefully it becomes a trend
Remember when new stories went to film and had a new view or take on something. Now it’s old stories that have always landed. Going to film or tv. Doing nothing new and they end up successful. Imagine why…. Be nice to see some new stories and ideas. 🤷♂️ I grew up reading this stuff. Was hoping by my 30s I’d have new stories to enjoy
I refute your pronunciation of "gif". The word the letter represents in an acronym doesn't automatically dictate how the letter should be pronounced when saying said acronym. See the "A" in NATO or the "P" in JPEG
Awesome video! I love being a dad! However, my wife is the one who watches these shows, not me lol. And yes, the lead dudes do bring in the ladies. My wife can concur 😂.
Yeah, the whole Roman Empire thing is a meme taken to the extreme for the lulz, but its still true somewhat. I think about the Roman Empire likely every day. As a fantasy writer and game developer, I use history as inspiration all the time. Romans are huge influences on warfare, city planning, trade, government, politics, and more. They come up a shocking amount, both in my work and my hobbies.
Lots of good shows mentioned here that I haven't seen, but I am absolutely ASHAMED that I forgot to include Burn Notice! It's phenomenal!
Greg, do yourself a massive favor and skip Season 3 of The Boys. It is gross, vulgar and almost entirely without charm.
Burn notice fan club status rejected!
It’s ok homie, Burn Notice is for all. The best of the best dad shows no doubt.
Burn Notice is my jam. I'd throw in Psych and House M.D. For good measure.
Literally just came down to the comments to post Burn Notice.. looks like I'm too late so take White Collar as well
Its almost like there is a huge audience made up of men, aged 30-70 that have disposable income, yet media companies actively avoid them in favor of niche groups.
it's hilarious how they pander to an audience that doesn't even exist and get surprised when their stuff flops
Disney Princess Factory: La La La we not listening you racists.
Every single year Hollywood pushes out multiple "dad movies" and tv shows, what the hell are u talking about?
Like, ur watching a list of multiple award winning and highly viewed shows....and ur claiming that Hollywood isn't pushing them...even though its Hollywood that makes them
Aye I'm right with y'all and I'm 20 lol, nobody likes the B's these woke companies keep putting out
"Can we roll something to make him happy?"
[cuts to ad]
Lol
Haha, technically, the ads make me happy, but I need to get that moved. RUclips is ruining my joke!
Great job as a Dad of 5…3 girls and 2 boys….I approve.. new subscriber
Its just entertainment that is grounded in traditional storytelling and archetypes. Everyone wants to think they are super original and can do literally anything and it will be good as long as it has representation and bashes you over the head with its message. Things stand the test of time for a reason. Also literally got my oil changed 30 mins ago!
Right? You’re spot on, everyone wants to be unique, but most of these modern formulas have been tried and failed in one way or another. It’s the curse of the creative person, I guess, they don’t want to be seen as copying
As a woman in her late twenties, I adore this genre. I watched the Beekeeper yesterday, and I really enjoyed it! I think it fits into this genre as well...
I’m seeing a lot of recommendations for that one, and I was going to pass it up but now I’m interested. I think it’s just the name that threw me, I was thinking “how are they going to make a beekeeper an action star like in every Statham movie?”
24 is the quintessential dad TV.
Holy sh**** I can't seriously get enough of that series.
Season 2 of "Reacher" felt like a CBS procedural with cursing and a lot more violence.
Season 2 suffered from the same problem "The Boys" season 2 did - the writers/director added too much "Aren't we cool / We'll win because we're the good guys / Wink-nod > time to do hero stuff". > As you say, a low budget procedural level of writing.
In essence there was way too much self-congratulatory behavior almost to the point of fourth wall breaking.
When writers/directors do that, they lower the stakes involved for the characters and hence the tension and enjoyment of the viewers - the show becomes somewhat farcical. By episode 4 it was clear the main villain would die by being thrown out of a helicopter by Reacher.
Season 1 was superior because it maintained the serious tone throughout.
Shows should always maintain the risk that (at least some of) "the bad guys get away with it".
There was a brief scene in this video of the AMAZING Stallone's "Tulsa King". I highly recommend it.
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, allow me to recommend Kings of the Wyld. It's a great read if you want a story about a band of retired mercenaries out to rescue one of the members daughters from a siege. Amazon should by the rights to make a series out of it, I believe Netflix would ruin it tbh.
This may sound strange coming from an unusually large man, but I do with Dad TV included more average-sized (particularly average-height) lead men being competent and capable. Our entertainment has taken such a strange turn that even the "geeks" now are 6'1 and cut. I appreciate Reacher as much as the next guy and was happily surprised that the second season didn't fall off, but I'm a little tired of 90% of adult men being portrayed as also-rans and fodder. That said, everything here is spot on. It's mind-boggling to me that the American entertainment sector can't figure out that dumping on this audience is at the core of most of its struggles, despite having the evidence right in front of it.
I came, I saw, I subbed.
And I appreciated
Don't need to be a dad to like these either!
I think the emotional appeal of the tropes are:
Dads want to protect their loved ones from a world with systems that are easily corrupted
Dads want to provide a sense of order and righteousness when the rest of the world makes no sense
Dads long for the bonds of kinship they often lose when they’re forced to “grow up” and tackle manhood alone
Dads like to have one skill their loved ones can find no where else
Conclusion Dad’s like to be needed & want someone who they can count on.
(It’s sad this seems to need to be found in fantasy but hopefully it encourages people to manifest it into reality with their own drive)
It isn't just a dad thing. These are just normal, masculine instincts in general. I think they just get more narrowly focused when men acheive fatherhood.
@@Tyler_WI think that's just a normal people thing.
Yep. It’s interesting to look at what we gravitate to as “wish fulfillment”. Gives us a good place to look when we are feeling down, perhaps one of these pillars is missing.
@@magistersolis.3750was going to comment that
Dads just want to be needed
My brother in law is also named Greg, and he showed up to a Halloween party with just bloody type clothes on he kept introducing himself as GreGory. I don't know if you've ruined your family's Halloween party yet with that terrible pun but I trust you'll remedy that.
I don’t understand how I haven’t used that yet, but that it clearly happening this freaking year!
That is so awful I absolutely love it! I desperately wish I had a family member or a friend named Gregory! I might have to name a pet in the future that just for that joke!
That opening segment hit me so hard, dad culture is real.
He's absolutely right about the music of the 70s (and the early-mid 80s). It really is the best. The best of back then is miles better than the best of today, and think there are actual studies about lyrical quality amd reading level that bear this out.
Dad culture is real and it’s awesome. Brothers! Let us revel in it!
It's not a culture, it's biology.
You literally change biologically by just believing to be a parent.
It made me laugh, especially the Hi Hungry joke stopping abruptly. 😂
I (a 20-something yr old female) have watched almost all these shows and I love them! It just goes to show that, if something is truly written well nearly anyone will like it, no matter the supposed “target audience”
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I think that the phenomena of women liking movies and TV that are made for men is far more common than the reverse being true. Media made for women focuses a great deal more on relationships and romance, while focusing far less on action and technical prowess. I think it's a lot easier for a show focusing on what appeals to men to also draw in women than it is for a show that appeals to women to also draw in men. It happens sometimes but the two tasks are not equal in difficulty for the creators.
Gotta give a call-out to "Person of Interest," which hits all the tropes with an ex-special ops operative teaming up with a super computer nerd, a (formerly) corrupt NY detective, and a supposedly-dead female assassin to rescue people that "The Machine" identifies as being in danger. Terrific show with a 4 1/2 season story arc. Just binged it as fast as my eyeballs would let me. Highly recommended.
A great series. Michael Emerson and Jim Caviezel were in top form. Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi, Kevin Chapman and Taraji P Henderson were also great cast mates. Jonathan Nolan makes some great TV. I'm looking forward to the Fallout series on Amazon Prime.
The funny thing is that it's 'Dad TV', but it's absolutely also marketed towards women (lots of handsome actors with shirts off 'tending to their wounds' and steamy historical romance novel moments). These are shows everyone can get into and not worry about anything but being entertained.
Tbh a lot of Dad TV...is just Family TV, meaning ANYONE can watch it😂. Once it isn't TV MA or R rated of course
Yep. It’s funny that media is “rediscovering” this genre when it’s a pretty classic formula. And yeah, Reacher s2 got hilarious with the shirtless bit. He got cut in the stomach just so he could dab at in the mirror, and it was a scratch, lol
"Hidden in your town or city, are the poor, the addicted, the imprisoned, and the loney."
And I'm the only one that can beat them into submission!?
"And they need saving."
Ah... I need to apologize to a few people real quick.
I'm in the same boat, too. Sorry, Cecilia.
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😂😂 Oh that took a bad turn!
i love the "men saving the innocent" trope i still love the "prince saving the princess trope" too. I also enjoy it when a women and man take turns saving each other with their respective skills, and they don't even want to give us that. Hollywood is gaslighting us trying to convince us that we don't like it.
Indeed, and the gaslighting is the worst part. It’s very clear that none of the audience, even the women, are into the girlboss, yet they refuse to believe it and tell us we’re wrong. The stubborness is almost impressive
"Hi hungry."
Is a classic.
I used to use this one because I thought it was clever.
Now I use it because I know fully that it's not.
And I am not sorry.
This used to be NORMAL TV. Back in my teens NBC Tuesday nights were A-Team, Riptide, & Hunter. Shows like Airwolf, Blue Thunder, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, MacGuyver, Magnum, Simon & Simon filled hours of TV times lots every week.
Men loved watching those shows. And the women actually liked them as much as the guys (though for rather different reasons).
Incredible Hulk, Kunk Fu, Greatest American Hero, Rockford Files, The Fall Guy, Dukes of Hazzard. Hill Street Blues...
@@bossfan49 A lot of that list reaches back into the 70s when my family didn't have a TV (we were pretty poor back then and couldn't afford one). And you can go further back to all the Great TV Westerns like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Maverick, Rawhide . . .
It used to be understood by Hollywood that half their TV audience was guys falling asleep on their couches after a long day at work. I guess that around 2010, they just figured that all those guys were watching ESPN now and they didn't need to bother making dramas for them anymore. (Or maybe it was because you stopped making GOOD shows for them, and they left for other places looking for good shows to watch.)
And, don't forget that all of these shows had large WOMEN audiences fanning themselves every time Magnum or Rick Hunter or Bo Duke smiled at the camera (as much or more than the guys drooling over Daisy Duke's shorts). Magnum's audience was actually more WOMEN than men because of Selleck's sex appeal.
Hollywood also used to make shows for the older audience (like Matlock and Murder She Wrote). Did that audience disappear, or did Hollywood just assume those people watched Fox News or Turner Classic Movies so they didn't bother trying to make shows for them anymore, either.
By that logic, Hollywood should bail on all the "woke" stuff for "modern audiences" because that particular audience doesn't watch TV at all. They're here on RUclips, or more likely over on TicTok.
As a dad of 2, and a veteran... Every. Single. Store we go to, I'm running scenarios on "what if an attacker comes in. What If they have a knife? What if there's a bomb?" Etc. I have anywhere from 10 to 40 different scenarios on speed dial for a situation. And before I was a dad? Before I joined the military. 5-10 plans. Protecting my mom or my sisters was my job back then. It never goes away.
Clothing racks. There's someone hiding inside each and every one of them.
@bros4654 as a kid, my parents lost me cause I hid in one to pop out and scare them. I'm acutely aware of the "hide for safety" potential, as well as "check for hostiles" potential. Lol
I personally love it how there are so many shows and movies today, trying to subvert the tropes, or reverse the tried and tested storytelling principles in some way only to fail miserably. Sure, thise things can be done well, but its extremely difficult to do so, since tropes aren't tropes because of some arbitrary guy in a suit said so.
Tropes are tropes because they work, and because people like seeing them.
"..but it's extremely difficult to do so..."
Either it looks that way because it's extremely difficult or current writers are so bad that understanding the standard hero's journey material enough to effectively subvert it, is beyond them. I like to think it's a bit of both, but heavily leaning towards the latter.
@@613harbinger316 subverting something well is always more difficult than just making it. The necessity to understand the material being subverted it's really separate from the difficulty of subversion, since you don't only need to understand it, but basically know everything there is to know about a trope to subvert it well.
YES! I’m glad someone else agrees that tropes are not always bad. They can be used lazily, but really trope is just short for “thing that gets used a lot because it freaking works”.
Favorite dads movie: "Nobody" with Dad Odenkirk and Granddad Christopher.
I just watched this recently and it is instantly one of my favorite movies. Also, am a Dad in his 40s.
Mine is the Equalizer.
I need to bump that up in the queue. It’s like an everyman who gets screwed by the mob so he goes crazy on the whole operation right? Sounds amazing already
I'm A female who was in high school when the original Equalizer was on. They screwed us fans by putting it and Stingray on at the same time. I'm one of the fans who think they should have gotten Edward Woodwards son to be the new Equalizer.
I’m a woman & yet connect far more to shows like 24, Leverage, Hell on Wheels, Reacher, Strike Back, Justified, and Seal Team than any of the shows that are supposedly geared towards me w/ tons of strong female representation and endless girl power + girl boss BS. So if those kind of series are dad TV, consider me a FATHER. Haha.
Another great dad TV show that ended a decade ago was USA's Burn Notice. It's a show about a burned spy stranded in Miami who uses his espionage and McGuyver-like problem solving skills to help the innocent with a hot former IRA member and Bruce Campbell as he investigates and hunts down the people in the CIA who betrayed him and ruined his life, and maybe he learns to be a better person along the way. Jeffrey Donnovan was awesome in that series. He really gave off that fun, personal, but also kinda scary and intense vibe that is integral to dad TV leads.
I'd even include The Walking Dead into that category too considering the way the main character Rick Grimes (and later Daryl Dixon) was portrayed. It was fundamentally all about finding/protecting his family and community and rebuilding a rightly ordered society amidst the chaos.
Falling Skies was on at the same time as the other two. When the main character isn't a freedom fighter defending the world and his community from an alien invasion, he's trying to keep his family together.
The main characters of all three seasons fit neatly into the dad TV/masculine hero archetype.
Came to the comments just to mention Burn Notice. Thanks for saving me the trouble.
And to everyone else: Watch it, it's great.
Seriously me and my wife have watched this show atleast twice
I have no idea how I forgot Burn Notice when it’s such an amazing show. Wife and I are now revisiting the classic USA lineup. Burn Notice, Psych, White Collar, Monk. All top tier
Man I loved burn notice and it's the only reason I knew who Bruce Campbell was.
The Boys is cool for me because of how in-depth a lot of its advertising is.
Vought International (the massive company in The Boys universe that creates all the superheroes) has their own RUclips channel where they create ads that take place in their universe, and EVERYONE'S in on it. It's interesting.
It's also funny how you mentioned a lot of women like these shows. I recall the "dad bod" being hailed as great and it's also reassuring seeing that half the guys you mentioned just look like people I'd see at my local Target (Pedro Pascal being one of them)
I do love the spin The Boys took, I just have to take the gore in small chunks. Heh, chunks.
Yeah, it’s pretty nice that a lot of women aren’t looking for a Grecian statue. Obviously they don’t want us TOO soggy, but I was quite surprised to learn the dad bod craze was not an elaborate prank
When I watched Reacher I would always have a glass of whiskey, my wife started to affectionally call it my "Whiskey Soaps."
Hahaha, whiskey soaps is such a cooler name than DadTV!
They used to simply call shows like this "entertainment". It was universally understood how to make good, action-packed, heroic, moral stories.
“I might look like the Michelin man.” That broke me 😂
I’m just trying to keep it honest. I have mirrors, lol
Not a father, but I'm definitely a "dad." I love all of these shows. Bullseye, my friend.
"if you make a sound I will rip your vocal cords out before you can think omg he actually did it" was the best line in the whole season. lol
100% that line had me laughing and impressed all at the same time! It was so damn cool
Man, the 'I wanna throw you out of a helicopter' was my favorite line of the year. Just laugh out loud badass.
It was a damn cool line. My #1 of the season was “Don’t make a sound or I’ll rip your throat out and your last thought will be ‘holy crap he actually did it’”. Amazingly badass line, had me laughing
I couldn't make it past 3 episodes of Jack Ryan (too unbelievable and I would have smashed the TV if I heard him say "I'm an analyst" one more time), but Harrison Ford does reach peak Dad Film as Jack Ryan in Patriot Games. Seriously, if you did a Dad Film list, that should absolutely be at the top.
Jack Ryan is a woke POS that panders to the Left. Unworthy of anyone's time.
I love how Greg naturally mixes in genuinely good advice, especially for men, in almost every video, regardless of what's being discussed. It really helps me check myself and refocus on improving instead of falling back into the depressive, selfish, childish funk that modern culture is encouraging with 3rd/4th wave feminism and redpill stuff. I've never intentionally subscribed to those holistically (that said, I've fallen for a few red pill lies in the past), but those ideas still like to weasel in and drag my ability to grow and function as a proper man down into the mud. Getting a friendly reality check with each video is honestly one of my favorite parts of Greg's scripts at this point.
I’m so happy they are helpful because those are some of my favorite parts as well! Being a man can be a tough job, and we have to build each other up
Saw the video title and immediately thought of “The Terminal List”. Glad to see it was mentioned.
Bonus points for including B99 clips of Holt.
Terminal list was the most “hell yeah” show I’ve seen in a long time and I’m so thrilled it’s getting another season
The power washing and lawn care segment got me. I caught myself a while back and I thought, am I old now? Is this equivalent to generations before me watching golf? I’m 39.
It's works on women, too; they pop up in my feed and before I know it, it's 2am and I've watched 20 videos of carpet cleanings.
The pinnacle is guys building shelters out of dirt, leaves, grass, branches, etc.
Every video his millions and millions of views and I'm convinced the entire audience is middle aged men who are convinced they are going to need to know how to do that one day.
Yes! Watching power washing before and afters and carpet cleaning is so satisfying. Also, bird watching is sneaking up on me. I don’t know what kind they are, but I DO like to just look at them now.
@@gregowen2022 I used to be cool. Now I've bought a birdseed feeder AND a hummingbird feeder, a book on North American birds and binoculars.
Tho I've also put our cat tree in front of the windows overlooking the feeders...
I still hold that Quigley Down Under is the ultimate dad movie
Justified is my 🐐
I’m 35 with no kids, but been watching a lot of those since the shows dropped. Guess that means I was destined to be a dad…?
Honestly, I think it's largely a competence kink. Mainly because in this time and age it's really difiicult to BE competent, or more likely to be periceved as comperent. But these guys are the deffinition of a competent man. And who wouldn't want to be like that, or to be with someone like that?
And you are absolutely right that labeling their actions as "toxic" is bullshit. Like from an everyday female point of view: I would rather a Reacher to save me from mugging than to have to fight myself and most likely get injured if not killed because I don't know how to effectively take down a person. I could just as easily injure the attacker as to injure myself.
And also, these protagonist don't do what they do for a payment, they do it because of their strong morals. Reacher didn't wait around to be thanked or repayed for stopping the highjacking. But unfortunatelly this is not that common nowadays. Guys often expect to be repayed for their help and if they arent, they become agressive. Reacher would never!
You hit the nail on the head.
I recently discovered you and........ you are now my favorite movie breakdown/critic/person on youtube. And...... without it being weird I feel like you are my friend too :D
Thanks for making great content.
HEY, just because you or I cant kick a car hard enough to set off the airbags doesnt mean Reacher couldnt. So......... you back right down, go touch some grass or something :D
Haha, what’s important is that Reacher can so I have hope that one day I can.
I’m glad you’re here! And I hope we CAN be friends!
I was watching Leverage back in the day when you had to wait a week for the next episode. Every single one was so unique it was actually insane by todays standards.
Don't know if this counts as "Dad TV", but I've been recently rewatching The Punisher and, as a woman, I can tell you that Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle is exactly the the kind of dad and husband a lot of women want. I miss when Marvel was good and full of good, strong men with capable women like Natasha and even Wanda (before Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness).
Natasha, Wanda, Agent Hill, Pepper... all great. Natash was the heart of the Avengers. She tried to help everyone on the team, and kept them in line when they got nuts. She tried to keep the team together and reason with both sides during Civil War.
Not a dad but I enjoyed Tulsa King, I cannot wait for season two also I really think Martin Starr's character is just gilfoyle laying low because he tries to hack the wrong person lol. Honestly a good cast for Tulsa King AND it's actually diverse, something another streaming show with an aging action star could learn from *cough FUBAR *cough*. Although honestly they're two very different things but I feel like they're both trying to capture the same audience, just one does it better.
I’m going to check it out. It was on the list, but weirdly I’d never even heard of it. Watched the trailer and it looks so great!
The New Balance call-out was triggering... I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS THE BRAND I WORE!!! 😭 Also, Longmire is a great example too! (Netflix). He is the epitome of a taciturn, manly cowboy sheriff. Like if Maurice Walsh's Quiet Man was a sheriff in 21st century rural Wyoming.
Hahaha, they are so comfy, right?! Yeah, I’ve heard very good things about Longmire
World always needs dads shows and dad shows will always find a market.
My oldest favourite dad show that I watched as a nephew and now as a uncle is The Rifleman and that’s from the late 50’s and it is Literally the base of all that’s brought up in this video
Greg for a second I thought you were gonna have a problem with the quips at the end of Reacher. I apologize for doubting you, I should’ve known better. Lol😂
Nope. Even as I heard them I knew they were cheesy and I didn’t care because they were so cool. I should have cut it in the video, but the top line of the season was “make a sound and I’ll rip your throat out and your last thought will be ‘holy crap he really did it’”. I was dying with that lien
I gotta be careful not to think about defending my family when I'm trying to sleep or else I get so jazzed up I can't sleep
I'm a woman and I guess I've enjoyed Dad TV best of all genres my entire life.
I am a dad. And I don’t like The Eagles. Though you are right about the 70’s. I’m more of a Styx, Yes, and Zeppelin guy.
A little more rock and roll, I can appreciate it. What makes the 70s king is that it had it all
@@gregowen2022 You, sir. Are correct.
Just a heads up Last Of Us Part 2 will SUCK, the game did. They get rid of Jole and make the girl lesbian while adding the literal She Hulk to represent "real women"
I think about the fall of the Roman Empire and Greece. Like, what led to their downfall? Are we on the same path? Those who don’t learn from history and what not.
If you segment the by "mean", "women", "conservative" and "liberal". Then, further segment the "liberal" side by race and sexual orientation, then "conservative men" becomes the biggest demographic by a wide margin. That is exactly what Hollywood has done.
The only part I'm stuck questioning is what if it's not Dad TV but just Man TV?
I'm a 20 year old student but god I love most/all of these shows and tropes, as well as reading Lee Child and David Baldacci- I cannot be the only one
While I'm not the prime audience for these shows I still really enjoy watching you review them.
I greatly appreciate that!
Being a dad is great, - you get to be a dad to your kids, you enter a kind of brotherhood with other dads, that brotherhood all kind of understand and share the same priorities & values, you also have a nice positive role in the world.
Thats the good dads of course, bad dads dont fit in with all that.
It also teaches you to be more dependable, responsible, compassionate and consistent.
Thats all good stuff.
Us dads just want to jave our home nice and look after our families.
We deserve a bit of dad tv, thats not too much to ask for surely?
Agreed. Being a dad is easily one of top 3 best things to ever happen to me. I’m 100% convinced I’m better because I have little people I have to be better for
One of my favorite "dad" tv shows was Defiance, back when the SyFy channel was still a thing. I loved the dynamic between the war hero main character and his adopted alien daughter.
I definitely like Reacher and Tulsa king. I'm not sure if I'm a dad tv fan as while I do like an individual uses unique skills I don't feel enough have some nice comedy from unfortunate characters that are still climbing to the top than at a peak looking to another peak. Like recently started the Mentalist, and Arrested Development also love Psych, Deception, Republic of Doyle, Murdock Mysteries, and Elementary, probably forgetting some. To me while a dad that can protect you is important more so to me if at the end of the day can share a good laugh with and watch the fireworks than something too serious.
Then again not a dad so who knows things can change from now to then.
Kicking a car hard enough to set off the airbags...
NOT taking that bet... EITHER way.
Years ago, I worked with a guy who accidentally hit a mid-sized dog, at about 60mph...
It set off the airbags.
Rockford Files, classic dad TV
More like men tv
I'm a woman who loves Dad TV! The reason I don't like chick stuff is because it's got chick stuff in it!! That's what's so frustrating about superhero movies: too many women, too much yack-yack-yacking and no action!
I miss action movies; even when they're bad, they're f**king fun and movies now are so joyless!
I don't think about the Roman Empire.
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I think about the Republic :)
I enjoyed Leverage up to a point, and with Leverage, Redemption it was off to a good start. But Redemption got pretty ridiculous after a bit. And Justified: City Primeval just proved you can't go home again. Both shows felt like they were written by people who thought they knew what their target audiences wanted but just couldn't stick the landing.
Just cuz I watch Burn Notice and fantasize about going flying-squirrel on a rogue gunman, doesn't mean I fall into this category. I am quite sure that it is mostly Sigma Males, like myself, that checks the tire pressure of any car parked in the driveway and obsessively monitors the thermostat.
That "your mother and I don't ask that much from you around here" line gave me some cold ass flashbacks to childhood lol
I dont have kids, but all the shows that you listed that i watched, i loved it.
There is a reason why The Punisher is so popular and why Marvel comics hate him and tried to kill him off.
My recommendations is to look back in time, preferably with your dad, if possible.
I'm in my 20s, and growing up, my dad would show me the classics from his day, Terminator, Rocky, Rambo, Bladerunner, Conan, Highlander, various Westerns (often Clint Eastwood and John Wayne classics). There was also some "newer" material like the Bourne series, the Expendables, and Escape Plan. At my grandparents' place, I would watch shows like Gunsmoke, the Andy Griffin Show, and Wagon Train.
Just last month, my dad and I watched the Soldier with Kurt Russell and (because it's a Christmas movie) Die Hard.
My point is, don't underestimate the existing library of material that stand the test of time.
Not your wheelhouse but there is an Anime called Frieren I would love to know your opinion about. It's got nothing to do with your usual topics, it's just really good and different, I get the feeling your reaction would be interesting.
Not a father but I would like to be.
I often fantasize of protection my friends & family being powerful enough to protect a girl.
Or to protect my little cousin or junior who I know I would do anything to protect them.
(One of them I sadly had to it wasn’t in the violent way but the “snitch on her & her bf” to keep her safe.)
You never want that fantasy to actually become reality. It isn’t pretty.
What? No reference to Burn Notice or Magnum PI here?
I really don't care about the stupid labels the media puts on things! Some of my favourite shows are supposedly 'dad shows'. I absolutely loved Reacher and Leverage is an amazing show! I'm a girl and really don't get the idea that women need to watch shows and movies only with women and they have to be diverse anf LGBT friendly whatever. I used to LOVE Marvel and Star Wars. Now I avoid both like the plague. I want to see strong men on screen, heroes, and if they are built like Captain America and Reacher even better. I definitely don't want to watch a movie about 2 unbearable karens and ms Marvel (who is she by the way? I stopped paying for Disney plus as I was tired of being bombarded with The Message! It really saddens me that all the great movies, made to entertain, are now an exception instead of the rule. At least Godzilla Minus One made my 2023 less depressing.
⭐ *in the Drinker's voice* ⭐ "THE MESSAGE"
I actually have gone back and I'm rewatching White Collar
I don't watch much TV, but my favorite dad MOVIE is "Frequency."
Literally some of my favourite shows all listed 😅
I never get tired of watching you bring your dad energy to your videos. Great video, Greg, and I couldn't agree more on some of these recommendations, especially Ted Lasso.
I appreciate your continued kind words and watching! Ted was so great. Even when they tackled themes that I would have rolled my eyes at in another show, they still pulled it off so well. I’m glad they didn’t overstay their welcome, but a part of me could use a fourth season….
Play Bluey when it comes to being a good dad
I think it’s unfair that I have to compete with Bandit Heeler as a father and husband. Dude is killing it on all levels
I don’t mean this disrespectful, could you share some of the charitable work you/your family do? Thank you!
I’m a foster parent, or was until I adopted my foster kid recently. Now I have to find some other service project until my oldest turns 18 and the state will let me take in more foster kids.
That oldest works with our church for a program they have once a month to watch special needs kids so their parents can have a little break but know their children’s special needs are being met.
your opinion on the gif debate is valid, but your justification isn't.
if that was the rule, then jpg would be pronounced "jpheg" and scuba "scubba"
I can’t deny that logic…. Dammit!
Yes, I have changed my oil. I'm so Dad, I have an oil change spreadsheet for the Jeep... :)
Hahaha, oil change spreadsheet is PEAK dad, I love it!
Great video , who knew that men helping the weak and defenseless was really toxic masculinity by these woke people .
It’s insane how some people will twist things
I got a muslim father in his early sixties that believed that American film has been since the 2000s, I have even seen this man binge a show so quick in my life and then told me to watch it. They must did something right with this one, hopefully it becomes a trend
Uh, idk man, Reacher season 2 was a huge drop in writing quality and action choreography, from season 1.
Remember when new stories went to film and had a new view or take on something. Now it’s old stories that have always landed. Going to film or tv. Doing nothing new and they end up successful. Imagine why…. Be nice to see some new stories and ideas. 🤷♂️ I grew up reading this stuff. Was hoping by my 30s I’d have new stories to enjoy
I love your comment about men and boys wanting to go super deep into some subject to learn everything about it, as that's exactly how I'm wired.
Here's my comment contribution to the cause. Best video on your channel so far. If loving DadTV is basic, then I'm a pH of 14.
Based. 😁
Haha, downright caustic! The algo help is always appreciated
@@gregowen2022 Ah! Fun with puns! Since I'm not a dad myself, I guess I'll just have to stay neutral.
Cobra Kai season 1!
Definitely!
0:55 Basic Dads unite! We will never surrender our "Hi Hungry, I'm Dad" anthem!
NEVER! I’ll be telling my kids “I haven’t seen you all year!” Every January 1st until I’m dead.
So basically just Bollywood
I wonder if part of the reason amazon got the warhammer 40k shows is because of the dad market
I think it will do well with their audience. Amazon seems to be understanding that more and more, with some exceptions (cough)ringsofpower
I refute your pronunciation of "gif". The word the letter represents in an acronym doesn't automatically dictate how the letter should be pronounced when saying said acronym. See the "A" in NATO or the "P" in JPEG
I accept your logic, and rescind the argument, but the pronunciation stands and I will die on this hill!
@@gregowen2022 lost another good man to a shitty hill.....this is a dark day indeed
FLIGHT OF THE FREAKING CONCORDS.... YOU KIDDING ME???? best references
I love that song so damn much!
It's almost like dad t v is good t v
Knight errantry is my Roman Empire.
From literal wandering knights to the lone gunslinger, to Jack reacher… the wandering hero is where it’s at.
I like the whole geriaction genre! Charles Bronson is the boss!
Awesome video! I love being a dad! However, my wife is the one who watches these shows, not me lol. And yes, the lead dudes do bring in the ladies. My wife can concur 😂.
Hahaha, same for my wife. They know the audience. ALL the audience
10th! 🤣
Yeah, the whole Roman Empire thing is a meme taken to the extreme for the lulz, but its still true somewhat.
I think about the Roman Empire likely every day. As a fantasy writer and game developer, I use history as inspiration all the time. Romans are huge influences on warfare, city planning, trade, government, politics, and more. They come up a shocking amount, both in my work and my hobbies.