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To: GingisK

It is boring, because the star actress is not funny.

But you can’t have what the main character wants, marriage and family and safety for children, without chastity. She tells dirty jokes about her husband, not knowing he cheats. He’s unfaithful. Marriage over.

Continually pushing the envelope of public sexual discourse, searching for a new taboo to break for the shock value and the laugh is destructive of chastity.

There’s good reason for raunchy jokes to be told within same sex, same age groups.

So as Paglia says, some degree of prudish limitation protects romance, protects sexiness, and enables comedy. No taboos, no Lenny Bruce.

If the show ever questions the sexual revolution and the coarsening of public discourse, that would be bold.


32 posted on 02/25/2022 11:10:58 AM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: heartwood
It is boring, because the star actress is not funny.

I'm with you. I saw the first season and a few episodes of the second. She plays a comedienne but her character isn't funny.

The second season wasn't entertaining at all. She's still not funny and the rapid fire Aaron Sorkin-esque dialogue is irritating.

I don't know which season it was but the show ripped Phyllis Schlafly in such an unfair way, calling her a monster among other things. It was quite over the top, and stupid.

37 posted on 02/25/2022 11:43:43 AM PST by Lizavetta
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