* Tina Fey is one of the few female comedians that don’t make me sick. Of course she must have conservative instincts.
Does every female comedian have to have a borderline pornographic name for their show? In the last few years we’ve had
Inside Amy Schumer
Full Frontal (Samantha Bee)
Not Safe (Nikki Glaser)
We get it already! You’re modern women who have intercourse without any emotional commitment and you don’t care who knows it!
There’s this show Quantico, where in the first episode the Latina main character has sex with a random guy she meets on the plane. And he wants to see her again, but she doesn’t want to see him and has to let him down. Then it turns out they both are going to work at the FBI. He tries to hide from others that they just had intercourse, and she’s like “Why would I want to hide it?” while the Latina’s blonde friend looks on admiringly.
I think a lot of the campus rape hysteria is girls imitating what they see on TV. They decide that they should have casual sex like their heroins, but end up feeling emotional about their partners, and convince themselves it’s “rape.”
* I attended High School with Tina, she was class of ’88 one year behind me at Upper Darby High School. my graduating class had almost 900 students, it was and is the largest high school in PA. it was 1% black, 95% white in 1988. Today the high school is 50% Black 40% White, 10% Asian. still no Mexicans live there.
hard to believe she wrote Mean Girls…if she attended Upper Darby High today she would write Girls in the Hood. Gentrification in Philly and section 8 has dramatically altered the demographics of the town we grew up in.
* Steve Sailer: I have a hard time getting past six hours of any show, no matter how good. Six hours into “Breaking Bad,” I’m like, “Wow this is great, but now I pretty much get it, I get Vince Gilligan’s world view, I know who Walter White is and why the name is evocative, etc.” But I’m not really that interested in what happens to fictional characters, so I’ll move on to watching six hours of something else, like six hours of “Mad Men.” From six hours, I get most of the cultural references, but it was already turning into a soap opera, and I can’t stay interested in who will sleep with with whom for very long.
That said, I’ve probably seen 90% of Seinfeld episodes and 90% of 1990s Simpsons. But those characters mostly just reset at the end of each episode. Homer has hazy memories of having been, say, an astronaut, but nothing really changes him.
* [Walter White] keeps changing. Also, you quit before meeting Gus Frink, Mike Ehrmantraut, the twin Mexican hitmen, and Saul Goodman. Those were some epic characters.
* 30 Rock was a consistently funny show. The political humour at times confused me, I would think: “This is Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin… aren’t they supposed to be flaming bien-pensants?
Funniest scene in the series IMO:
“We’re the National Association for Zero Intolerance – NAZI!”
“Should we change that?”
“It’s fine.”
* Schumer and Dunham are about plain jane slut culture.
There used to be a time when some women were pretty and decent. Some were pretty and slutty. The plain Janes didn’t figure either way.
But plain Janes discovered that guys are such hornballs that they will screw just about anything.
So, even a pigaroon like Dunham can put out and get lots of action.
So, even plain janes can pretend to be ‘hot’.
The recent slut culture is about plain janes feeling ‘empowered’ and higher-esteemed upon discovery that even a porkeroon like Dunham can attract boys if she says ‘come do me, boys’.
* The 90′s Simpsons episodes were simply brilliant. There’s so much subtext crammed in.
Take for example “Homer Badman” where the babysitter accuses Homer of sexual harassment. So many oxen are gored. Feminism, the media, ur-examples of SJWs and Nice White Ladies. Bruce Willis. It’s like one of those puzzles ‘how many squares can you see’. All the while making one laugh his ass off.
Plus it gave us the fabulous Fox TV Movie “Homer Simpson: Portrait of an Ass-grabber”
* Never-ending? It ended after 62 episodes. BB was a writing-driven show, not an actors’ showcase; I think the cast had many dependable second-raters whom you’d probably not care about watching in something else, but its filler/soap-opera quotient was light by the standards of the genre. They were usually able to tighten up the central dilemma each week, placing the characters in a worse jam than what they’d just escaped prior. With of course the side effect of the actual finale being a bit narrow and unsurprising.
30 Rock was not great off the bat; both the concept and execution needed honing. Over time the elevator-pitch situation, which seems very lame (“wacky BTS hi-jinx on a Manhattan variety show”), became vestigial and they homed in on which elements were legitimately funny. Fortunately the producers’ sense of personnel behind and in front of the camera was superlative. as would be expected– it wasn’t some left-field innovative pilot by unknowns upon whom NBC took a flyer.
* Girls is a very complex show, and simplistic analysis doesn’t do it justice.
The show seems to be testing how many bad decisions the characters can make. And they make a lot of bad decisions.
Sluttiness is not shown in a good light. It is the water they swim in, but not particularly satisfying. And the girls screw up many romantic relationships.
Most of the characters are not shown in a good light. Some are horrendously irresponsible.
Ray, the coffee house owner with conservative sensibilities is an exception. He is generally decent and reasonable.
It accurately shows how people of modest means live in New York.
It avoids lefty stereotypes. Hannah’s gay father is an extremely unsympathetic character right now.
Jessa is a drug-addled mess, but clear-headed and decisive in a crisis when everyone else falls apart. She brings sanity to a childbirth and a makeup catastrophe at Marnie’s wedding.
I have no idea how Lena Dunham managed to create this show. When interviewed, she sounds like a completely deluded standard-issue lefty, and she fell for the KKK/Oberlin hoax big time.
