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Old 10-12-2012, 02:12 PM   #32
DanaC
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Oh hell, I love sitcoms generally. When they're good. I don't like the cookie cutter ones that appear in a slew every so often.

Y'know, I think the dislike for her doing the anthem the way she did is an excuse. If they liked her before that then it's a very strange reason to alter that to active disike. On the other hand if they didn't like her before. If they found her a little coarse, and inappropriate and way too in their face for a working woman and a wife, and if she really didn't gel with their expectations and aspirations, then the anthem incident would just symbolize all that.


[eta] Y'know, if you were to judge American society on the cultural product it puts out, you'd be forgiven for thinking it truly is a classless society. That it is not divided into classes, but into the law-abiding and the criminal, the fiscally responsible and the poor. The only class that is spoken of in class terms at all is the middle. Which is apparently where everybody except drug dealers and millionaires lives.

The working class have all but vanished from view. Everybody is either middle-class, or they sit outside of class -what could be described as an underclass.

Cheers, Taxi and Roseanne defined an era in American television culture. Then everything became a little bit shinier and definitions of class altered. Loft-living, beautiful young things learning how to be grown-ups and rarely, if ever, dealing with finicky things like money, or suburban, middle-class family shenannigans. Not sure if the pendulum might not be starting to swing back a little though. Interesting to watch.
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