Thanks, Irobini, appreciate your viewpoint. I would like to hear others, too..
PhillipDC
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This is funny (and, I'm sorry).
The audiobook version of "Modern Romance" with Ansari reading is hilarious.
As an Af-Am man, for me it wasn't the "too dark" issue. It was having a stereotypical black female character with a large figure—the "mammy" stereotype.
"…instead of immediately going on the attack in the morning."
I would have also have accepted:
1) This show is so goddamn brilliant
2) I am so goddamn glad that I'm happily single
I hear that the book focuses much less on the romance and is more about the the relationship between the girl and her mom.
and the baby with the baboon heart.
I sometimes wonder what became of Lydia's daughter.
Ugh…good point.
Even before I reached the end of your comment, I was thinking "The Knick."
Wow. That's a good defense of your point.
Fair enough. But Kim and Jimmy looked so happy the night after they ended up in her apartment after swindling the that guy. Everything about that episode from the kiss after their swindle to the cutesy toothbrush scene said "the sex was amazing." (Not only that, the show has suggested that they were intimate…
Priceless.
That was my take, too. Chuck has to want to get better. I thought that he finally was taking the first step.
I, too, am a Lydia lover…that crazy wild-eyed "dame."
"…the same strategy with the pill."
The thing about Chuck's mental illness is that before he can become better, he has to *want* to become better. I see no evidence of Chuck's desire to want to become better (well, at least not prior to this episode).
The writing in this show continues to be just…lovely.