It honestly feels like WB kind of screwed themselves over when they let B&W end the series as they did. It’s self-evident that they would not have minded one or two more seasons. I honestly don’t get why they just didn’t find someone else to be showrunner for two extra seasons because B&W were already running on fumes.

“I’ll have what she’s having?”

Couldn’t make it to the middle of the article, huh?

This is my problem with all the backlash-to-woke whining you see so often these days. It’s not like good points don’t get made, and I’ve got enough problems with woke Twitter myself, but most of the time it masks a much deeper feeling of entitlement which just seems like the result of being too rich and too famous for…

I remember checking out the first season. I liked the basic premise of ‘what if your best shot at living the high life was by being Freddie Prince Jr.’s friend. And if you wanted to do something other than be Freddie Prince Jr.’s friend for a living you can kiss your social status goodbye.’

Hey, Debi Mazar’s name was in the opening credits! She almost never got to do anything, but TECHNICALLY....

I always wonder how these people square their worldview with the fact that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has run 15 years and counting.

Sure. Black people, Queer people, Asian people, women, and anybody who’s not a straight cis white man has to litigate their case for a production meeting every single time even if they have 5 awards under their belt and box office receipts to boot. But this guy has one successful HBO show and that *entitles him* to…

“I did a pilot with Michael Imperioli, Michael Rappaport and Ed Burns that [HBO] passed on, which I’ll never forgive them for,” he said. “Whether they thought it was good or not, I earned my chance to have a second shot, and they put some other pretty crappy shows on [instead].”

Counterpoint: this douchey show sucked and his using the term PC invalidates his opinion 

“I don’t think Entourage was this vulgar boy-fest that people like to paint it as now.”

> At this point its clear that Hari Kondabolu was just aiming for low hanging fruit to get fame.

Oh, fuck off with that shit. God, what a ridiculous sentence.

It’s ironic that you reference the doco “The Problem with Apu” in your post, since

Caricatures don’t have to be purposely or overtly negative to be harmful, especially when that caricature is one of the few representations of that ethnic group. If Bleeding Gums Murphy was the only representation of the Irish in popular culture there would be some Irish Americans who found it problematic. Actor Jay…

Also he and his wife had 8 kids. Not exactly bucking Indian/South Asian stereotypes there

See, I agree with that in theory. But those are things about his character we are told over time. What we see on a regular basis is a stereotypical Indian character with a funny voice working a stereotypical job for Indian-Americans.

Using another example; my favorite movie is Psycho, which like Silence of the Lambs…

You’re referring to the absolute best of Apu.
Which basically makes up only 1/4 of his appearances.
The rest of the time he was always used to reinforce negative stereotypes, especially with the new episodes that aren’t even close to those qualities you mentioned.
And as stated above, from the actor’s mouth, he’s…

I mean yes, he was given a family that loves him, but his marriage wasn’t exactly the least race-driven plot ever - You had him lying to his family, his arranged marriage, Homer dressing up as Ganesh.

I don’t totally disagree with you, but I think a lot of the problem is that he’s a caricature created from an outside perspective that, due to his beloved status on a near institution, has had an unfathomable role in shaping the perception of Indian Americans in popular culture. Genuine ill-intended racism aside, The…

Post-credits scenes should be a tease for the future, or the wrap up on a minor minor point - not a major event in the narrative.