She also needs to stop raiding the fridge while extolling her hotness, and quit acting as if being fat is a feminist stance.
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So, what *are* the best episodes?
Kanye deserves all blowback for his ‘slavery was a choice’ remarks. His complete ignorance, arrogance and insensitivity should be a ‘dealbreaker’.
I was hoping Sally would die just as she got her relative big break and in a state of happiness.
In all honesty, I wasn’t sure what genre the show was supposed to belong to...because the horror elements seemed at odds with the survival elements. We seemed to be watching two different shows at once and it was only towards the end that they seemed to reinforce each other again.
Or maybe it doesn’t have to be so self conscious and ‘academic’ in the first place.
I’ve heard that the book loses the plot. Care to elaborate?
A fantastic review Sean - I appreciate your attention to detail and willingness to contextualize both the book and show for us.
I thought we were all rooting for the undergraduate seminar in philosophy. Who wasn’t cheering the show on for trafficking in all too familiar tropes and educating us in the ambiguous nature of ‘humanity’, ‘identity’ and/or ‘reality’. I mean, get with the self congratulatory program.
I dunno. Three seasons is pretty good, and was more than enough. There were only three (original) movies too...and it originally looked as if we were only getting two seasons anyway. The third season was a bonus feature, and sometimes less is more.
I never said it was true (or false). Toilet Whistle was the one who raised the specter of relativism, and I relativized the question of its truth value to the very context(s) in question.
Do you understand what relativism is? Unacceptable is relative to the context that socially prescribes or sanctions. Watch the most recent episode of Silicon Valley to give you an indication of how context can determine what is socially acceptable or not (it might vary from context to context but remains contingent…
Did you watch that Shandling interview that you linked to? Whilst it *might* be true that Shandling deliberately tanked the original interview - and that’s not even true since he chose to treat it as a social ‘experiment’ - Shandling also goes on to defend Gervais’s comedy and claims that he just gets better and…
I’m not sure he knows what an argument is - although he sure likes to ‘argue’ with strangers on the internet.
Say what, now? Sean perfectly captures the nuances of the show’s characters and situations. He has clearly read (and appreciated) the book to contextualize them for us. It seems you’ve just come for the cheap thrills or familiar tropes of the genre. The beauty of the Terror is that we can’t even be sure what genre …
It should be stressed that the show does not appear to be a vehicle for her Trumpism. Roseanne appears to be more a comment on a house (aka nation) divided.
I thought she was making fun of the idea that television could be morally instructive, or might provide a window into diverse and/or inclusive experience - i.e, it was good for you in the same way that eating spinach or cabbage might be.
In all honesty, it was difficult to fathom the intent of that remark.