Posted on 06/24/2023 3:06:07 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Paramount+ series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies has been canceled after just one season, making it the latest woke TV show to fall flat with audiences.
To add insult to injury, Paramount+ will remove the series from its platform, effectively erasing any trace of its existence. The cost-saving decision — the studio will presumably reap tax benefits while also saving on residuals and administrative expenses — is an indication of just how few people were streaming the show.
Pink Ladies creator Annabel Oakes posted a desperate message to her Instagram Stories Friday, blasting the studio’s decision.
“In a particularly brutal move, it is also being removed from @paramountplus next week and unless it finds a new home you will no longer be able to watch it anywhere,” she wrote. “The cast, my creative partners, and I are all devastated at the complete erasure of our show.”
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies was intended as prequel to the popular 1978 movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, which itself was set during the late 1950s. But the show’s creative team imposed a woke anachronistic interpretation on Rydell High School, creating lesbian kissing scenes and focusing on the racial identity politics of ethnic minority characters.
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Americans in middle America are not too keen on seeing minorities on their tv shows. It’s considered Woke. Obviously the streaming service got the message.
I live on the East Coast, and even I like to see traditional tv shows. I’m a fan on Petticoat Junction. Everyone is White, Straight, and English speaking.
Cue the violins
Nonsense.
There are plenty of shows with mixed casts that are extremely popular.
Middle America doesn’t want lame ass shows that are all about an agenda and no story.
“Nonsense.
There are plenty of shows with mixed casts that are extremely popular.”
NCIS
Thats not it.
Its another attempt to change what something has already been portrayed as by woke changes. Its another black Little Mermaid. People dont dislike it because shes black, but because wokesters decide to change the character for what the character is. People dont dislike it because minority actors are used, they dislike it because the history of the Pink Ladies has already been established and they are white girls.
These woke revisionist chracter changes for DEI reasons are why people don’t like it.
Well, gosh, that’s a shame.
Until now, I hadn’t even heard of this travesty.
That’s not the problem. “The Cosby Show,” “Good Times,” The Jeffersons” to name a few were wildly popular when they were on. That’s because they were decently written shows with good casts. The weren’t always preaching at us. A little, but not blatant, in-your-face crap like this from the article:
“…creating lesbian kissing scenes and focusing on the racial identity politics of ethnic minority characters.”
Your tears taste sweet to me, lady.
You don’t have AIDS, right?
With this mindless slander you have proven that your feelings are perfectly aligned with the cultural Marxist mindset, comrade.
Father Knows Best
The Cosby show is now almost impossible to watch, because the Main character was so obviously Bill Cosby. Yuck.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be in the water tank with 'the girls'.
People actually watch paramount+?
I disagree. I don’t think it has anything to do with people not being keen on seeing minorities in their tv shows.
It has to do with the principle of authenticity in the context of honesty. Wokeness isn’t genuine. It feels absolutely un-genuine.
The secret of film (TV or Movies) is that somewhere, somehow, in some way, it has to touch a spark of genuineness in a person watching, no matter how small. But it has to make a connection.
To that person watching, that is the connection point that must exist no matter how minute, to conduct any appreciation or enjoyment.
It is a form of “truth” that forms in them act allows them to enjoy it.
I think that the secret to success is really to get people to be able to reach the point they can enjoy the movie by suspension of belief. Where they start paying attention to the story someone is trying to tell, and to identify with it.
That is why people watch movies.
Wokeness is the polar opposite of authenticity. It is completely false in its premise (that physical “diversity” is far more important than intellectual “diversity”. And I believe every person knows this is true, but to Leftists to whom any means is justified by the ends, that they can lie to themselves about something that fundamental.
So, when someone reads a book, sees a movie, watches a newscast, or hears a speech, the inauthenticity of wokeness overrides anything meaningful that the source might intend to convey. It completely blocks that connection of truth.
And in those who do allow their logic to be overridden by their emotion (the need to belong to the collective) and they allow a Mal-formed connection to be made (such as is seen in Leftists) it creates a cognitive dissonance that ricochets around inside their skulls, knocking out chunks of rationality as it flies about.
That is why I think “normal” people don’t want to watch it. It is fundamentally inauthentic. And who has time to waste on that?
LOVE Uncle Joe!
My favorite is the Andy Griffith Show
George Jefferson was a racist who was forced,for the better,to “out grow” his racism
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