Seth MacFarlane has hit out at the amount of “dystopian, pessimistic” TV shows being made in recent years.
The Family Guy creator recently appeared on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, and said there were an abundance of “negative” stories in Hollywood, and that audiences need more movies and TV shows that “give people hope.”
“That’s why I did [comedy sci-fi series] The Orville… because when I was a kid, Hollywood was providing that voice in various forms,” MacFarlane added.
“There was a lot of hope, and some of the blame lies right here in this town. The dishes that we are serving up are so dystopian and so pessimistic. And yeah, there’s a lot to be pessimistic about, but it’s so one-sided. There’s nothing we’re doing that’s providing anyone an image of hope.”
MacFarlane referred to The Handmaid’s Tale as an example of the current climate in TV, saying while he admits it’s a “beautifully written, beautifully directed show,” he maintained there is “a lot more of that [than]” than positive shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He also said that Hollywood is “all about the antihero” now, and had been since The Sopranos took off. He continued to say that it was important for Hollywood to start making positive shows again due to the current political climate.
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He added: “[Telling hopeful stories is] the only thing really that Hollywood can do that’s worthwhile because as we all learned from this election, nobody gives a fuck what celebrities think.
“We can tweet, we can talk. Like, people don’t care. They don’t care. What we do do well is tell stories. And we’re not doing the best job right now of telling those stories in a way that gives people hope.”
Elsewhere, MacFarlane recently released a new album of never-before heard Frank Sinatra arrangements.
He also recently said that he doesn’t see “a good reason” to end Family Guy just yet. The original pilot episode of the show, only ever seen before as bonus content on a decades-old DVD, was finally shared online earlier thus year.
MacFarlane is also a co-producer on the Liam Neeson-starring reboot of The Naked Gun, that is currently out in UK cinemas.
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