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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Another one of those shows in which the ‘Youth’ are all -every one of them - inspirational, virtuous, decent, honest, soul-searching, caring, ad-nauseum
and every adult with every vice imaginable.
Just like real life.
I get very tired of that.
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