Posted on 05/17/2018 2:18:42 AM PDT by Enterprise
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” This famous quote attributed to Dr. Seuss applies to many things in life, but NBC’s high school drama Rise is not one of them. If anything, we should cry because it happened, and smile now that it is finally over. Unlike the show’s title Rise, every episode in this debut season continued to sink to new lows, so we can also smile over the news that the curtain has been lowered for good on the series.
The show takes place at Stanton High School, where theater teacher Mr. Mazzuchelli (Josh Radnor), or Mr. Mazzu as he is called by his students, decides to have his troupe perform the controversial play “Spring Awakening,” which contains themes of masturbation, incest, abortion, homosexuality, teen suicide, rape and other mature subject matter.
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Saw 10 minutes of the first episode last fall. I had no idea what a dumpster fire the show would evolve into. First site of Rosie Perez and I changed the channel and was done with it. Watching and listening to her is like fingers on a chalk board.
What ever happened to Room 222 with Karen Valentine?
Bernie’s Afro (Jewfro) was epic.
Been a while hasn’t it?
Didn’t all us guys have a bit of a crush on Karen? sigh...
Yes
Such a contrast to Welcome Back, Kotter.
So many shows do nothing but bombard viewers with liberal dreck. If it isn’t blatant, then it is filed out in Littlefield here and there. I think the intent is that the viewers are so engrossed in the story that they do not realize the liberal propaganda is being fed to them in small bites. And viewers are incapable of rational thought; once they have heard enough propaganda nuggets, they will turn into rabid socialists.
This is one of the reasons I rarely watch TV. The lack of intelligent content is the major reason.
good. what a bunch of tripe, and Josh Radnor pegs my gaydar bigtime.
One of those shows that screams: Hey everybody, see! Our Hollywood perversity is absolutely normal and mainstream, it is even on prime time television.
Most people wouldn't, because they think he looked like George C. Scott.
“Room 222”
...LOVED that show!
What about the Castle like show with a writer helping a police detective but the writer is gay And his gay lover is a character on the show?
Yes, they should. And in real life, any school choosing this material should be strongly suspect. (The ubiquitous David Hogg had a role in a community theater production, oddly.)
Long before the 2006 Broadway premiere of Spring Awakening, it was abundantly clear that the sexual free-for-all it advocates as "liberating" "children" from traditionalist misery and death was actually resulting in a great deal of misery and death for young people.
It would be interesting if it could be staged ironically, with non-script elements revealing what the sexual revolution has done to our society.
They'd be looking for their safe spaces and comfort animals if he addressed them the way he did soldiers in WWII.
Last fall?????? 100 percent impossible. It premiered March 14, 2018.
I, as a white dude, actually got a perm ‘fro like his just to be cool.
It worked.
Got plenty of dates for it.
Sadly, I didn’t get it redone so it changed to Led Zeppelin long after many months.
We watched the first show. What garbage. We both decided no thanks.
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