“Once again: it is not the media’s job, nor has it ever been the media’s job, to overlook the flaws in your favorite candidate just because you view it as necessary for the greater good.”

Its one of those situations where an AV Club writer grabs a couple of random tweets and attempts to manifest a take into existence—aUdIeNcEs HaTe ClAiRe—and then rest of the writers just roll with it.

add Abbott Elementary to this list. The main female and male leads give off sibling energy and rather than sexual chemistry.

Yeah, I didn’t hate her, I was mostly annoyed with the writers. They are clearly capable of writing complex characters and they had a capable actress. 

I totally agree. I like Claire. I read the whole thing as Carmy being self destructive like the rest of his family.

And he thought he’d found some beatific escape from his terrible burden of making expensive short ribs.

Ah, fair point with the Monaghan reference. I just don’t think there was much room to breathe for the character, she was just background dross for Carmy’s obsession. But even then, I don’t get the hate for a character that dared to say yes to a date with the main character.

I think the show was doing something with Claire that didn’t hit for a lot of people. Because I do think she’s a slightly unreal dream girl, but only from Carmy’s perspective. Objectively, she’s a full person with an inner life, who parallels Carmy as another deeply ambitious person who way exceeded the low…

I don’t know that Carmy is totally to blame but I definitely agree that it wasn’t Claire’s fault. Everyone on that show except for her expects Carmy to spend 100% of the time on the restaurant. Towards the end of the season Sydney gets mad at him for daring to attempt to have a personal life, basically pre-blaming him…

I don’t think Claire was a MPDM, but I do think she fell into the trap of “thankless love interest” or what I sometimes think of as “thankless Michelle Monaghan role” since she so often got stuck with it. Often seen as the dead wife/girlfriend in flashback, they are highly idealized with every interesting personality…

I agree with all of these except for Claire. She seems cool. Like, normal person cool. Someone who doesn’t need any of Carmy’s bullshit weighing her down. So, Carmy’s the worse love interest in this case.

Audiences immediately turned on Claire Bear for being a manic pixie dream girl-esque fantasy who didn’t fit into a show where people get stabbed on the line and someone drives a car into a living room.

If you’re going to criticize the things a person said, it’s fairer to actually include what they said, not to make up a thing they “basically said” that includes the words “white power.”

I think resurrecting an eight-year-old SNL sketch Fey appeared in, then interpreting that sketch in the most hostile light possible, confirms the concern this article is expressing.

“basically saying”

It’s funny that trans folks just plain break some people’s brains.

And even aside from all of that - the extremely popular star of the show she was on is famously supportive of his trans sister, and I have no doubt at all that not only he told her to cut the shit, but told Disney to cut her shit. Yet she was so dumb that she didn’t cut the shit.

Yeah, also even if her argument was, and a court upheld that, her speech was “political in nature” — that’s still not a protected class when dealing with a private entity/employer (except potentially in Washington DC, where political party is apparently a protected class).

I’m not American so I won’t pretend to understand the labours laws over there, but aren’t a great many jobs in the States at will employment, meaning the boss can fire you whenever without cause? It sounds like Carano got more chances than most people do.

“Some of us have been unjustly singled out, harassed, persecuted, and had our livelihoods stripped away because we dared to encourage conversation, asked questions, and refused to go along with the mob.”