Can finally watch this show
Now that I'm divorced, I can finally watch this show. Couldn't watch with my ex, it filled her head with too many bad ideas, thinking I somehow turn into Jake Weber when I go to work.
shareI think this is a big reason the show failed: women hated it with a passion, meaning not only wouldn't they watch it, but no married man could dare watch it either. Hard to get ratings that way.
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Have to agree.
I was house-sharing when this show first aired. And one week, a girl in the house watched it with me.
Wow. She HATED it.
We ended up having this long debate afterwards. For a couple of hours. She had an intense reaction to it's portrayal of men and women and marriage and so on. Hated every single idea the show put forward.
I forget which episode it was (definitely season one) but I remember having to spend hours justifying the show to her.
In the weeks that followed, if she noticed me watching it she'd comment something like 'Are you watching that **** again?' and leave the room.
EDIT: It was season one, episode three. The Three Stooges/Massage episode.
http://abriefingwithmichael.tumblr.com/
Totally. I hear legitimate complaints a lot of times that male tastes drive entertainment (for instance, the trope that women/girls will go see a movie with a male protagonist, but men/boys won't see one with a female lead). But this seems a case where women just kind of went on strike and killed the show. Some of the same women might have tolerated their boyfriends or husbands watching a stupid action movie, a football game or even mixed martial arts match, just rolling their eyes or not paying much attention. But the messages coming out of this were just too dangerous for them to allow to circulate.
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