ou have probably noticed that lately, all the content dominating your ‘Wow, you really need to watch this’ convos includes a specific theme: main characters who are rich beyond reason. See, if you will, the people in , , , , , and . And while such onscreen opulence—their clothes! their food! their boats!—is nothing new, here’s what is: this time around, we, the viewers, are supposed to laugh at how disconnected these not-so-fabulousfrom reality. We are supposed to scorn, even pity, them and think big thoughts about how our society would benefit from far fewer obscenely well-off individuals. Except…I am not buying it. Whatever lesson we are supposed to be learning here feels hollow as hell.
