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"likeable"

posted 8 years ago by homerj2us
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Have you guys never watched HBO before?

I have to roll my eyes back into my head at people calling millennials "entitled" when you don't have to look far for sources that show the average millennial has more debt than their parents could have imagined, more educated, and probably makes the same wage their counterparts did a decade ago. This show is not a primer on millennials. The average millennial is not going to get a record deal from her dick actor-singer husband.

The characters on this show are "unlikable" for the purposes of satire and to drive plot. Duh. And yes, they do awful *beep* but no one can be likable all the time. Give me a dramatic character who doesn't do morally ambiguous or stupid things, and I'll show you someone dull.

I will say I think Marni is absolutely disgusting but there are actual characters like that...she's beautiful and that's really all she has going for her.

And yes, it was awful Hannah stole the bike. And I think Jessa is mean as a snake in general.

They all have their own demons and moments of humiliation to work against.

I think what distinguished this season is that they did it all alone, without really helping each other.

[–] Line-of-Flight 7 years ago

"Entitled" is more about how people behave and what they expect from themselves and society. It's not so much about their actual debt status.

[–] activista 7 years ago

The thing about this likeable" thing is that male characters (in both TV and movies) aren't expected to be likeable all the damn time---they are allowed to be as a**holish as they wanna be (mainly because they're written by men) but, yet and still female characters (in both movies and TV) are still expected to be "likeable" to some extent, instead of the whole, flawed, complicated human beings they can be (when they're written by women, that is.) Just some more sexist s*** as far as women in the media are concerned.