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Hollywood: sooooo delusional

posted 8 years ago by EveryDayFriend
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OK. This sitcom's supposedly based on the life of Dan Savage. Love him or hate him, he's an enormously successful columnist with "Savage Love.' IMO? He's a walking caricature of the tedious stereotypes. I really, really don't care! And he co-founded the "It Gets Better" campaign -- is is HUGE to LGBT community -- so another reason why we should love seeing Dan Savage's life of coming out to his Roman Catholic family. Lovely.

And I find it so interesting how...when the U.S. population has 3.8% of its population Identifying as LGB, or about 9 million.

Why oh why must ABC cram this down our throats?

And why are Casey Johnson and David Windsor such heavyweights in "Getting Deals Done," yet all they write and produce, series-after-series, just circles the drain? It's BAD comedy, y'all. And here they go again with yet another badly-writeen and over-schmacted sit-com. Yet Johnson & Casey are still celebrated?

It's like "The Emperor's New Clothes," or something; i.e., everyone's THINKING they should like this stuff? A "Default"...?

So, how does a comedy like this get green-lit? So tired of the gay guys/gals in The Industry who are bitter, hurt, sad, bullied childre-now-adults. There Will Be Blood, or something. And when you consider there's only 3.8% who actually ARE LGB? It's so crazy-lopsided....when the only thing which fundamentally makes us different? Is how we have fun in bed.

Hollywood's so outta touch with the rest of America. It's so ridiculous.
Thanks for reading this...

[–] Floyd_Pinkerton 8 years ago

It's almost as if it were planned...

[–] WBradPitt 8 years ago

Psychological warfare

[–] rsaotome12 8 years ago

I don't think ABC is "cramming" anything down anyone's throats. Unless you don't have cable or satellite or a computer to access any number of online streaming options. There is SO much programming we have access to, if you don't like one show you can, almost literally, choose a hundred other options.

And while LGB-themed shows and characters are definitely more visible than they were, I'm not sure if they make up even 3.8% of the shows that are out there, or if even 3.8% of main casts are LGB.

[–] greeneyelove2003 8 years ago

Thank God, someone else said what I always say when someone is bitching about a show. Just watch something else.

[–] serviceuaustin 8 years ago

OK, then. Let's use your "logic" to examine television. I think significantly less than 3.8% of Americans have super-powers, yet we have shows like Supergirl, The Flash, Agents of Shield, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, etc., being "crammed down our throats." It's likely that less than 3.8% of Americans are talking frogs or talking pigs, yet we have Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy being "crammed down our throats." Certainly less than 3.8% of Americans are President of the United States of America, yet shows like Scandal and Madam Secretary are "cramming" presidents down our throats.

Why is this? Why would a TV show not reflect your heterosexual, lower-middle-class, uneducated reality? I can't think of a reason.

Oh, wait, yes I can. IT'S ENTERTAINMENT. It's not a documentary of your narrow personal experience.

[–] mmserrano4 8 years ago

So you're comparing gays to fiction? That's a good way to show your support for homosexuals and their programming.

Communism was just a Red herring!

[–] ThatsMyJam 8 years ago

So you're comparing gays to fiction? That's a good way to show your support for homosexuals and their programming.

You clearly missed the point. Asians are considered a minority in this country, and yet we have "Fresh Off The Boat". Where's the complaint for that?

[–] mmserrano4 8 years ago

Firstly, you say "considered" as if it's something to be disputed. They are a minority. If your race has more citizens in a country than any other race does, you're the majority. All others are a minority. In America whites are the majority. Asians aren't. Fresh off the Boat is an acclaimed series and enjoyed by a lot of people. I've not seen it, I don't know why, but the trailers for it didn't make it seem like some old white dudes in a conference room trying to figure out what the hip youngsters would be into this season. The trailer for this show is just cringe after cringe. Fresh off the Boat didn't look funny, few comedies do or are, but many reviews called it fresh in an attempt at an unoriginal pun and a compliment.

Communism was just a Red herring!

[–] slch112 8 years ago

You sound gay.

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[–] lnoft97-412-316846 8 years ago

Thank you. this dunderhead, like all OTHERS of his ilk, just love using the phrase "crammed down our throats. Crammed down our throats. Crammed down our throats." ( Second only to "I am Sick and Tired of ___" (whatever chaps his hide that day). As if someone is FORCING him to watch this, and not 'Mass for Shut Ins' or some fat chinless evangelist on the fundy channel. Methinks somebody here getting his hatez on has a secret fantasy somebody will kidnap him and 'cram something down' his throat.

[–] EveryDayFriend 8 years ago

I should be more definitive with "cramming down our throats." I like a lot of ABC programming. I like GMA. I like "World News Tonight with David Muir." I like Shark Tank and 20/20. That said: guess what TV network's on a lot of the time. So, "I'm anorexic," "I'm gay," "We're getting a divorce," and the other unfunny clips...again and again...from this show...pummeling me as ABC is promoting the heck out of this one.

So...that's why i feel a "cramming" sensation. Has nothing to do with where you took it; i.e., you believed I was making some sort of reference to coital engagements or B-Js? Naw. I wasn't going there. And..I hope this wasn't something that made y'all too "sick and tired...." ?

[–] beersandshots 8 years ago

... guess what TV network's on a lot of the time.

Well then instead of sitting there banging out hogwash on your keyboard, get up, go out and buy batteries for the remote so that when those dreaded divorced, anorexic gays show up you can make then go away with the mere press of one button.

"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

[–] EveryDayFriend 8 years ago

FYI: the network promo is always the last slot of a commercial break. Promos are either :15 or :30 in length. If anything, network programming promos are a "cue" to go back to the TV and resume watching a show if you're not on a DVR like me. So the part about me "banging out hogwash" is contestable. I'm usually doing something else during the average 14.25 minutes of commercials per hour of prime time programming -- housework's a big one.

You wanted me to know, so I wanted you to know, too...

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[–] paulfitzpa 8 years ago

Many other TV shows cram heterosexuality down the throats of gay people so.....

Instead of a homophobic rant perhaps you could shut the *beep* up?

[–] JRichardSingleton 8 years ago

The problem is it's not hip and fresh. It's formulaic.

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