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.
