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How Bad Ideology Destroys Good TV: Why the hit TV show 'Glee' Crashed and Burned
Pajamas Media ^ | 02/25/2015 | Spencer Klavan

Posted on 02/25/2015 7:11:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Buckeye McFrog
Anytime you see Jane Lynch in the cast, I would not hold out hope that this show would be anything but.

I actually enjoyed watching her psychologist character bust on Charlie Sheen's character in Two-and-a-Half Men before that show (and Sheen) jumped the shark. I felt guilty watching it...God Bless the starving pygmies in Africa...amen.

21 posted on 02/25/2015 7:32:01 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: SeekAndFind
(yes I watch Glee, okay?!

Not okay. Ritually disembowel yourself.

22 posted on 02/25/2015 7:32:09 AM PST by IronJack
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To: nascarnation
A clear case of Dawson Casting though I never watched it and never cared to.
23 posted on 02/25/2015 7:34:56 AM PST by darkangel82
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To: darkangel82

Had never heard that term, interesting.


24 posted on 02/25/2015 7:36:16 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: SeekAndFind

From.a.practical standpoint the stars get too big for thew britches and want creative control. See Big Bang Theory. It used to be a playful romp on insanity and geekdom. Generally shows add a little kid character when they flounder. I’m about done with it even if they add a little kid.


25 posted on 02/25/2015 7:38:45 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: SeekAndFind
season six has been a relentless, tight-lipped progressive tirade against conservatism without so much as a glimmer of mirth from the other side.

The writers' other show from last season, "The New Normal" that was all about gay marriage, totally tanked. So they're mad. And they're having a hissy fit.

26 posted on 02/25/2015 7:39:19 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Why would you want to "fundamentally change" a country you love?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I actually find it amusing that the producers and writers of theses shows can’t help themselves. They start with a good show and say “now that we have your attention, we would like the indoctrination to begin.” Soon after the show goes buh-bye. Somehow, the idiots in Hollywood are immune from the economic impact of ruining their product.


27 posted on 02/25/2015 7:39:46 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: qam1
2) The Hot Girl gets a short hair cut

Big Bang Theory?

28 posted on 02/25/2015 7:40:43 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Why would you want to "fundamentally change" a country you love?)
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To: Gaffer

> But to relegate an entire series, an ever ongoing parade of music as it pertains to social justice, progressivism or activism is lost on me.

I’m pretty sure they never had Country & Westen Music or real Rock N Roll on there. Too manly. Probably more like Cindy Lauper, Lady Gaga, Elton John, Etc...type tunes mixed in with music for for dancing drag queens...


29 posted on 02/25/2015 7:41:37 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: SeekAndFind

UFO use to call me that all the time and I hated it!

30 posted on 02/25/2015 7:42:53 AM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I sat through ONE episode with my wife and daughter...

95% of the characters were gay. Gay was the ‘norm’ and straight was the rare, odd thing.
All the story lines were about gay-ness; about two girls’ gay relationship; about the VERY manly yet female BOYS football coach ‘coming out’ as gay (what a shocker)

It was gay propaganda tv is all. I saw NO redeeming qualities whatsoever.


31 posted on 02/25/2015 7:43:10 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: SeekAndFind
No, thanks.


32 posted on 02/25/2015 7:45:49 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have never seen Glee, Parks and Recreation or 30 Rock. I only have to look at the cast to know how the program will skew. We lean toward crime/detective shows. The ones on today seem pretty much void of politics. Maybe occasionally I feel a political subtheme, but not too bad. I cannot identify a comedy show that we regularly watch as they (current TV comedy shows) all seem to scream Leftist politics and most of their humor today consists of humiliating/denigrating Conservatives for, well, just being Conservative.


33 posted on 02/25/2015 7:46:50 AM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: T-Bird45

And she was very good as part of the regular ensemble in the Christopher Guest mock documentaries, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. Wish she could keep her personal bedroom perversities out of her work, but it’s her career and I don’t have to (or in the case of Glee never have) watch. It is ironic that people who abhor Christian preaching would be so gawdawful preachy about who and what they like having sex with.


34 posted on 02/25/2015 7:48:03 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve never seen it. The ads made this look like the gayest show on TV, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I figured it was also very leftist.


35 posted on 02/25/2015 7:48:37 AM PST by Darren McCarty (Mike Pence in 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

Walking Dead just turned gay activist. I’m done.


36 posted on 02/25/2015 7:55:27 AM PST by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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To: Shimmer1

Never heard of it myself.


37 posted on 02/25/2015 7:56:39 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: SeekAndFind

I watched Glee some when it started, but I just didn’t care for the kind of music.

I have heard some of their ‘specials’ such as Broadway hits and Christmas songs. They are pretty good — sounding more like the originals than modernized reversions.

This last season, according to TV-by-the-numbers, is not getting very good ratings. It could be that Glee is one of several programs that got cancelled, renewed, cancelled, renewed. It is one of several programs that I say ‘is that still on? I thought it was cancelled a long time ago.’


38 posted on 02/25/2015 7:57:36 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: darkangel82

I hate tvtropes.com. I can go there and suddenly it is three hours later. :-)


39 posted on 02/25/2015 7:57:46 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: Dick Vomer
My wife and I have been watching Starz' Black Sails about pirates from the beginning last fall. Gritty series about pirates on Nassau and their lives. Some sex sprinkled in here and there. But in the most recent episode, the opening scene is a graphic sex scene of a threesome in bed (a pirate and two gals). Thankfully, it moved on quickly to the rest of the episode but right in the middle in it, the writers inserted a scene back in London of the lead pirate captain character and his mentor suddenly kissing.

Typical of gay behavior. They can't just be gay and leave it at that. They have to shout it out and flaunt it to everyone and graphically rub it into everyone's face. My wife and audibly groaned when the scene just suddenly appeared and commented, "Not this crap again." Ruined the episode for us and may make us ex-fans of the series if the writers dwell on this gay relationship and graphic depiction of it, on an ongoing basis.

Not what we want to watch on a relaxing Saturday evening watching some TV...two guys graphically and gratuitously kissing each other on screen. Otherwise the series is well done. But there is only so much of liberal Hollywood one can take.

40 posted on 02/25/2015 8:13:46 AM PST by HotHunt
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