Posted on 12/14/2017 9:07:21 PM PST by Kaslin
The Golden Globe Awards nominations have been announced, and once again, the Hollywood judges really know how to find the worst junk to honor. Two nominations went to stay-classy Showtime's program called "SMILF," which stands for "Single Mother I'd Like to F---." The show's lead actress is also its creator and executive producer. Her name is Frankie Shaw, and she says she picked this profane title as a "deliberate" feminist move to take back the sexist phrase "MILF" from objectification by males. Try deciphering that one.
Obviously, the executives of (CBS-owned) Showtime also designed it to nudge people to click on it because they know it's going to be dirty, or as the critics call it, "a raw, honest look at the life of a 20-something single mom." Shaw insists, "If it offends you, don't watch." That's also a sound bite designed to sell the program to Showtime's subscribers.
The feminist site Refinery29 hailed Shaw's character, Bridgette, as "TV's Most Important New Character." One of the dominant themes is the character having suffered sexual abuse by her father when she was a child. Another is a serious -- and predictable -- loathing of religion, specifically Christianity.
When the show debuted a few weeks ago, in the first few minutes viewers watched Bridgette yelling at Rafi, her baby's father, for saying a bedtime prayer with their 2-year-old son. She says: "Knock it off. ... there's no praying in this house!" In the second episode, she's at a group rehab session, and when they say the Our Father, she protests by saying "our mother" and closes the prayer saying, "A-women" instead of "Amen."
But the real delight for Hollywood came in the fourth episode, when Bridgette's mother, Tutu, suggests a prayer to the Virgin Mary. "Mothers cannot be virgins," lectures Bridgette. "Mary was forced to have that baby. ... Matthew and Luke and whoever did some stuff to her and then called it an angel baby. ... Now we're all stuck praying to this 'angel baby.'"
In other words, Mary was raped by the Gospel writers, and Jesus was just an illegitimate result worthy of no one's adoration.
There's more. Tutu, the character who fights back by saying, "That's the mother of God you're talking about," is played by ... Rosie O'Donnell. What a cosmic joke. It's the same comedian who yelled, "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America."
In the latest episode, Rafi is upset and struggling to avoid relapsing into alcoholism, so he goes to a Catholic church to talk to Father Eddie. As he pours out his sorrows, Father Eddie kisses him passionately right there in the pew, because that's what priests do in church.
There's some leftist politics, too. Shaw created a diner scene during which her character expresses amazement for her high school history teacher who burned their textbooks and taught instead radical leftist Howard Zinn's book "A People's History of the United States." That episode began with an on-screen quote from the latest leftist/atheist comedian George Carlin: "It's called the American Dream 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it."
This show might seem like unwatchable, blasphemous garbage to the average American, but that never stops the Hollywood left. It could win some Golden Globes, and Showtime is so delighted it has already renewed it for a second season.
The odds are not in showtime’s favor. Christianity is 2017 years old and has a global following that is a 1000 times the size of showtime’s audience.
Vegas puts showtime’s odds against Christianity at 1,000,000-to-1.
With Disney buying Fox Inc., expect a new layer of sleeze slapped onto every topic you could imagine.
I very seldom watch the Fox channel, but record Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and then watch it after Fox and Friends.
By the way, the show may have used a quote by George Carlin, and I know Carlin was no saint - and that's putting it mildly. However, Carlin was intelligent and he was educated by nuns, about whom he had good things to say. I suspect Carlin would pan this dreck. When Carlin talked about religion, he was too smart to make it all about cheap Catholic bashing. In fact, he credited the nuns who taught him with having given him a good education. Carlin's gripes with God were with God...the big questions about suffering, the ones that have puzzled people for thousands of years. In contrast, the two episodes I've seen of SMILF are just cheap, clichéd shots that losers have taken at the Catholic Church for the past sixty years, mostly complaints about how the Church won't let them have non-stop sex with anyone they want. The main character is a freaky slut who won't let her baby's father even mention God in front of their child. The second episode I watched ended with Rosie O'Donnell urinating on her own mother's grave. Charming.
Anyone know what the actual ratings are, for this utter trash?
Who are the advertisers?
I don’t watch that channel, so I have no idea.
Just sick of this leftist cr@p pap being pushed, constantly.
The biggest showtime is in our so called churches. Rock and rap crap. Baby killing condoned and never mentioned. Homos preaching! Dont pick on tv!!
Typical ignorant lefty: The etymology of the word "amen" has nothing to do with the English word "man" or "men."
Regards,
VERY happy with the Golden Globes nominating Kyle McLachlan as Best Actor for his work in the new “Twin Peaks.” If he wins, and he should (he plays not only Agent Dale Cooper but two other parts in the new one), he will have won Best Actor for the same role, 26 years apart.
That’s cool.
The rest of it, I couldn’t care less.
Hollywood won’t mock islam as they are comrades in arms, under their leader Satan.
“Don’t pick on TV.”
We should “pick on” trash wherever we see it, including TV, as well as churches that aren’t doing their jobs.
just don’t watch the show. U have to pay for Showtime, it is not a free channel.
I agree. I canceled Showtime. But I also am getting the word out about what trash the show is, and, therefore, the channel is.
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