Was the TV series BRAIN DEAD - about compromised politicians - trying to tell us something? Seems it was cancelled by CBS as it was getting too close to the bone ( pizzagate )

submitted by cussingaintfunny

Jonny Ray Gill tweet Interesting tweet from one of the stars of the hilarious political satire about Capitol Hill. The series is about the deep state brainwashing and comprimising politicians, and the amateur investigators who set out to uncover the plot. Sounds familiar? Watched it pre-pizzagate and thought it was just a zany comedy, but in the present climate it seems like a metaphor for CIA mind control over politicians. Not exactly pizzagate but it was unexpectedly pulled by CBS and Amazon after one season. Which isn't surprising considering what we know now.

AreWeSure

Close to the Bone or the fact it had terrible ratings?

BrainDead debuted to a disappointing 4.6 million viewers and 0.7 demo rating, and after four Monday airings got bumped to Sunday nights; its final hour did barely 2 mil and a 0.3.

I, for one, never heard of this show and I do like Tony Shaloub.

As for the reviews, of the top critics on Rotten Tomatoes 54% liked it. Not good numbers all around.

archons

You are the oddest fucking shill.

cussingaintfunny

For the record 70% of the top critics on Rotten Tomatoes liked it, and the audience score was 91%. It was never going to be prime time pap because of the bizarre subject matter, and it's numbers for a summer Sunday 10 o'clock timeslot were fine for a challenging piece of work. For someone who has never even heard of the show to fabricate statistics about it is laughable.

AreWeSure

I fabricated nothing. Right now as I look at Rotten tomatoes. 64% of all critics liked it, but only 54% of top critics. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/braindead

This is not a highly reviewed show. Average Rating: 6.21/10 Season Reviews: 45 Fresh: 29 Rotten: 16

The 91% of audience likes is irrelevant to the network, given that it had such a tiny audience.

cussingaintfunny

What is your problem Sir? Your link is telling lies?

hashtaggery

I don't remember the series. OMG, Mandella Effect? Ha! Sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out.

SpikyAube

It was brilliant and it got really good reviews as well didn't it? So that is definitely weird they would cancel it. I have been seeing this kind of parallel in TV shows recently, Braindead was one, Westworld another, House of Cards etc. But braindead was interesting because the politicians were all compeltely controlled by alien bugs - they had literally lost parts of their brains and were complete puppets, which it seems is a close analogy to what is really going on.

2impendingdoom

Maybe. I thought it was really crappy acting and relied on a gimmick, but I could only sit through few episodes before losing interest. Brainwashing of politicians by ants is going the reptilian route rather than extortion by sex crimes.

concernedaboutitall

The ants in their brains...metaphor for corruption? Yeah, maybe. But unfortunately the acting was pretty poor. I did watch season one during the election. It was on Hulu.

V____Z

Thanks for this. It really does strike me as related, good catch. Much like the many pedophile related articles that were removed after pizzagate first came to light. Namely, the Norway busts, Salon's 'have some compassion for pedos' pieces, and others. The timing can't be ignored.