Secret Level

I liked it especially as the first iteration. Hopefully they improve but I really like the varied short story format. I wish I could get a dedicated D&D and WH animated series from this, but I'll take what I can get.

There is no use case for not paying whatever minimal fee to not having to watch commercials; It's well worth the 3 dollars or whatever it is to skip them, on Prime and YouTube. Completely agree that in the old days they were an art and a point in the zeitgeist, pre-cultural fragmentation/atomization; a good commercial could be worth watching itself, and since you couldn't avoid them, everyone would be talking about them, and they were fine. One of the primary selling points of premium cable was the lack of commercials, and now we have gone all the way around again.

Not to mention the ideological capture present as mentioned earlier: Every couple is mixed race, black males and white females, etc. Advertising was once a huge source of academic information about human behavior, because they desperately cared about results. All of that study to just be virtue signaling and only selling to the same tiny slice of the market that doesn't buy their products.

EDIT: Secret Level is awesome, if I haven't commented before, love the Twilight Zone/Black Mirror vibe, so much of Sci-Fi used to be this level of subtle horror/warning, or not so subtle. The universe is actually a pretty dangerous and horrifying place. Love, Death, and Robots recaptured some of that feel, the danger of Science Fiction that has seemingly been lost with many of the other rounding of edges accompanying the feminization/Wokeness/PC'ing (use your favorite label) of our society.