No parking for you losers who live here, this is important stuff
I was talking about how a film company had taken over my street to shoot a second series of a series. I found out that the series was called The Four Seasons, so I watched some of it at the weekend. I was interested to know how culturally enriching and important this show was that it required the people who normally parked their cars in front of where they live to have to go elsewhere under penalty of their vehicles being towed.
*Linda Gordon
God knows a TV series production company with all their trucks and equipment has to park somewhere, it’s in the name of art after all. The actors and crew can’t be expected to drive to the nearest Burger King for lunch. They need a catering truck. We all do.
Anyhoo, after watching this show, I can safetly say that none of this inconvenience was worth it. The show is an adaptation of the 1981 film of the same name, which was written and directed by Alan Alda. TIna Fey, who I last saw impersonating 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, created the series with two other people, both of them comedy writers. The show is described as comedy/drama, which I think it is trying to be. Unfortunately it’s mostly left wing demoralizing propaganda of the type that we’ve come to associate with almost everything commercial network television produces.
Because media celebrities know what’s good for all of us.
The Four Seasons is about three sets of couples who for some reason go on an annual holiday with each other to different places, mostly in upstate New York, which is why they were in my street last week. That episode is obviously going to be Fall related. The show stinks. It’s not funny because there isn’t any humor in it at all. If there is, it is manifestly forced, and therefore not funny. The characters are all miserable, stupid, unlikeable idiots.
Tina Fey’s character is married to a man who acts like a retarded five year old, and Steve Carell’s character, who was married to one of the other characters in the show, who acts and appears quite insane, is in now a realtionship with a younger woman. She looks almost the same age as him, yet in one episode the script calls for a weekend with her friends who are all much younger looking retarded vegan zoomers with zero personalities. Carell’s character is mercifully killed off at the conclusion of it. It’s simply not believable, unless you think people are that dumb and shallow with no redeeming qualities at all.
Hilarious
The other couple (of course) are two “married” homosexuals. One of them is an Italian who portrays a more exaggerated groteque caricutare of a gay man you’d be hard pressed to find. I found it offensive, and I’m not even remotely a quare. His husband/wife? is a black dude. The writers, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen this character to be the heart, soul and conscience to conterpoint (and set an example?) this bunch of stupid, unlikeable white people.
You’ve never seen a more loving, caring, wise and noble person than this guy. He’s a literal angel. He’s the fountainhead of everything that we’re meant to perceive as good in the universe. You might even say he’s “magic”.There isn’t one scene where he isn’t dispensing the wisdom of the ages, or for example, offering a shoulder for someone to cry on, particularly Tina Fey’s character, a terminally bitter woman who shares with him intimate details of her relationship with her dopey husband, when she’s not apologizing for her own existence.
I think the propaganda in this instance is that gays are just better than the rest of us at dealing with life, and especially gay people of color. They just have more understanding compassion, soul and yes, humanity than us dumb white folk don’t they?
Migration crisis? How about stopping it then?
In the UK on the weekend, a black fellow was conducting a train stabbathon. The police were right on it. “No evidence of a terror attack”, they said. I would venture that it might be pretty terrifying to have someone with knife coming at you while you were on a relaxing train journey. “Don’t relax”, is the advice that should be given. I would add to that, “around certain people”.
Good Day
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*Irene Linda Gordon (born January 19, 1940) is an American historian and professor who has written widely on 20th century social policy in the United States, with an emphasis on gender and family issues. She is a two-time recipient of the Bancroft Prize. Her best-known book is the 2009 biography, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Šumskas, a shtetl in what was then Poland, now Lithuania. He was a trade unionist and Communist Party member. Linda later described herself as a “red diaper baby”.