I don’t know what this means. On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 at 7:17 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote:
> So have Daniel Goldfarb and his writers' room out-Sorkinned Sorkin? B > > PGage, to Marti Lawrence and Kevin M, June 8th: > >> I watched this a few weeks ago, and really liked it. I don’t really >> understand Kevin’s critique, unless he is being sarcastic. The male >> characters seem fairly drawn to me too. >> >> There was something about the show that irritated me. Unlike all the hand >> wringing about distortions of fact in the HBO Lakers series, that mostly >> did not bother me very much (in context of it’s almost magical realism that >> clearly identifies itself as a caricature) Julia indulges in a kind of high >> minded, well intentioned distortion that really irritates me. A key >> supporting character is an African American woman who is shown as an >> associate producer whose idea it was to syndicate the show. >> >> Obviously, there was no AA producer at WGBH in the early 1960s. I get >> that they wanted to avoid criticism that the series was #sowhite, and >> wanted a way to explore racial issues, but pretending that racist Boston in >> 1962 was dealing with race at a level of say New York City in 1992 is IMO >> worse than ignoring race completely- especially when ignoring race >> completely would likely be closer to an accurate telling of the story. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/845a850c-3b22-4001-bbc4-df330843ee09n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/845a850c-3b22-4001-bbc4-df330843ee09n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKpchQiMmXAAbUqUnQD%2BjAez%2Bw%3D6yZ8U9dAAy3fX7qx7Q%40mail.gmail.com.
