...it has become hideously pretentious and full of its own importance. It thinks that its 'relevant' and its become sort of 'actorly' in a nauseating, trendy, metropolitan, 'meeja studies' sort of way. And, for me, that only serves to emphasise the thread-bare stupidity and ignorance of the plot-lines.

Actually, the same could be said of the more earnest side of the folk song & ballad scene one (occasionally) runs into these days.