When Tyson was on HIMYM it definitely came up.

I'm pretty sure nobody is under the impression they were forced to watch this. But by making critical comments, it can help change producers' impressions that casting Chris Brown is acceptable.

Pretty sure any other evaluation of the episode was outweighed by the specific objection to Chris Brown and the message he sends by casting him. As a corollary, she probably also would've been happy to see a more talented replacement.

I don't think we were meant to read it that way. I'm pretty confident if he'd seen any other child repeating the catchphrase and acting like an ass he would've had a similar reaction. It's just that there's only one very impressionable child at that age that he spends a lot of time around.

The guy pulling out the "lol defensive tone" line is now calling someone else a "ridiculous asshole". God is great!

"Debt to society" is a bullshit term. Society and the legal system are not the same thing. Once the legal system is done with you, society is free to extract whatever debt it deems necessary as long as it's not breaking any laws. Because the powers of society are much less than the power of law, the burden of "proof"…

Blackish has had a shit ton of socially and politically pointed episodes. Yes, it is sometimes just a network comedy. But if you think it doesn't have a specific voice that has set up expectations for the kind of messages it sends, you haven't been watching the show as much as Ray-Harris.

I'm guessing she does, but Black-ish, the show she reviews professionally, didn't fete Polanski or Allen this week, did it.

"they're"

It took me 500 comments before I realized that's why people were bringing up Dr. Dre. Did not occur to me to be that oblivious on the subject of the review.

To be fair, folks like this are patronizing the thinkpieces about the shows doing the trollcasting, not watching the show itself (mostly). I spose you could argue for a quid pro quo between TV producers and the critics who cover it…

We don't presume either way. That's the point.

Celebrity careers do tend to be subject to cancellation, and I'm fine with that. Celebrities are symbols. If Chris Brown wanted to do office work or operate a power plant for the rest of his life without publicly flaunting his lack of remorse for beating women, I'd have no desire whatsoever for him to "lose his…

Probably that, yes. Rice is no longer in the public eye.

For starters, it is a TV Review, not really a "column", so yes it would definitely have helped to watch the show :P

Send him home to live off his millions and never make appearances on mass media again isn't exactly cruel & unusual.

"Moral ideals shouldn't be more important than aesthetics."

There are some pretty nutty judges. But hopefully yes.

They eat kangaroo with pitchforks?

I know this is a serious subject but it was pretty funny piecing together the mysterious deleted commenter from the responses. Then JOHNNY had to go and ruin it, of COURSE…