Where's the political propaganda? Yes, there are a few gay characters, but at no point do they claim that it's how other people should live their lives nor do they claim that you should participate in any pride events. Was there even a pride flag in the show?
shareIt has all the classic elements, for example the strong female boss. Ted Lasso is basically a beta male and brown-noser. Sam preaches liberal values and portrayed very positively, and of course he is black. Roy, the man's man was told he was sexiest when he was crying.
None of these is that blatant, but those elements were there, in pretty much every show these days.
I just can't help but notice.
Is a female boss really political though? The whole thing is about her trying to get revenge on her cheating ex-husband.
shareShe called the previous coach misogynist and fired him, and everybody was oblivious. Do you think it is OK for a male boss fires a female employee because he thinks she is a feminist?
shareThere's a difference between those two. She didn't fire him because he wasn't a feminist.
shareShe fired him because of prejudice, there is really no difference.
Also misogynist is one of the overused words in this kind of debate, but misandrist is not even recognised by most of the spell checkers. That is the double standard world we are living in now.
The "refugees" and Sam's activism towards it. All of that was completely at odds with reality.
shareI forgot about that. But it was only a minor thing.
shareIt kind of turned into a major thing because it got his restaurant trashed. Of course right-wingers are portrayed as evil and criminal. When in reality they just want legal immigration. Pushing for legal immigration does not make one racist. The message "asylum for everyone who wants it" is simply not realistic.
shareThey never brought up right-wingers though. I also think his celebrity made his restaurant a target too.
shareThey didn't mention "right wingers" by name, but it's heavily implied that his liberal tweet triggered the response, and that it would be from the opposite political spectrum. He wasn't targeted for being a celebrity; he was targeted for his politics.
The Twitter rants I totally get, but destroying his restaurant, which is not even managed by him is just ridiculous. I just don't think its believable, as he basically just ranted against the politician. Destroying the business like you forgot paying the mob for security is just pure ridiculous. It would be much much more likely they burn his house instead of his restaurant.
Same for the stupid girl power arc of Keeley. First she basically get the toy of her major investor and the moment she lose her totally useless and bad marketing company, she gets deus ex machina money from her bestie, who got that money just from being the toy of her previous "investor". Yeah, sure.
First season was good. Stopped after that.
shareProbably the best thing to do.
I got hooped into watching the second and third season and while they had their moments, they did nothing but take away from the first season and how near perfect it was.
Everyone become a cartoon, boxes where checked and well, greed and milking an idea till its dead proved it's still alive.
I tend to give shows up to 3 seasons. After that, they tend to fall dramatically in quality as far as the story goes.
Good Examples being Scrubs, How I met your mother, and Northern Exposure.
It's not a perfect perspective, but it seems reasonable enough.
So my dream of a third season of Flight of the Conchords is a dream best left a dream?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAH43TZYGt4
only watched s.1 but I felt it coming
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