Comments on: Could The New Normal become just the norm? https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: ScottH https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-124 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:50:23 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-124 I have to assume the show has its heart in the right place, despite evidence to the contrary. It has talented actors like Rannells and the actress playing the girl. And I like the idea of having two gay leads (characters as well as actors!). But I watched the first 2 episodes, and nearly every minute felt like nails on a blackboard. The tone was so arch and shrill, and the grandmother was such a horrible walking hatemonger (Sue Sylvester on “Glee” at least occasionally shows some humanity). I didn’t notice much of a reduction in Bryan’s queeniness, and I really don’t understand why that creature from the Housewives show keeps getting “acting” roles when she’s talentless and annoying. As a gay man, I want to like this show, and I want it to do well. But I also want it to be GOOD, or at least not promoting hateful stereotypes. I’ll keep watching, hoping it will improve, but if it continues along these lines, I’ll be hoping for its ratings to dive. I don’t want America seeing gay people the way they’ve been portrayed in this show.

]]> By: Sebastian https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-95 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:13:27 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-95 I guess you must love “2 broke girls” then :-)

I just re-watched the whole show (all of S1 and the two episodes of S2 that are available) and I found three references to oral and two to anal. S1 has one reference to oral in Ep 2 (If they don’t like us they can suck it – You can suck it – no you can suck it).

In the two episodes of S2 we have one for each when Cheeks is being overly gay on the interviews. In Episode two we have one oral reference in bed by Cheeks and one to just regular sex (which per definition is anal for gay men) by Brady in another interview (witch John Cryer). All of these are in the story about Cheeks downlplaying his “gay-ness” in interviews/the public (with ep. 1 showing the extreme side for Cheeks and Brady trying to make a stand in the interview in ep. 2 by showing his “gay-ness” in public)

So that’s three times oral and two times anal in 45 minutes. I think it’s ok if you can’t handle that.

I mean you’re not getting younger…

]]> By: Keith McDuffee https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-90 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:27:59 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-90 lovehusbands.com

]]> By: Chuck Duncan https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-89 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:25:53 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-89 I’ve never seen it … and I never heard of it until one of the Clackers mentioned it! Guess I’ll have to give it a look. If I knew where to look for it!

]]> By: Keith McDuffee https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-88 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:18:00 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-88 I’m surprised nobody’s come out to say ‘Husbands’ is offensive, actually. Not about the general topic at all, but the sheer number of blowjob and ass fucking jokes. Gay or straight, isn’t talking about that on a show offensive on its own? I’m no prude but it seemed over the top the couple of times I saw it.

]]> By: Sebastian https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-86 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:08:15 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-86 Fair is ok if you ask me considering some of the shows they did two or three years ago where I wanted to gauge my eyes out and had to skip every other skit because it was so inane and the musical guest was so shrill I had to skip the song completely.

Oh and about the songs – if people were asking you to perform your song hundreds of times a year you’d be bored too ;-)

Which reminds me of the thing Chris Hardwick said on this podcast the other day – you can perform a song a thousand times but when you repeat a joke ONCE people boo at you because they heard it before. Comedy is a strange animal.

Now let’s just press that button and watch Gangnam Style again :-)

]]> By: Chuck Duncan https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-85 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:01:35 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-85 Well, SNL was fair to good, hardly great, and Frank Ocean was so bored with his own song that he got up to play an arcade game so Jon Mayer could take over.

]]> By: Sebastian https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-82 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:31:22 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-82 True. I remember how I hated TBBT for the first three episodes. With a vengeance. And I said they need to re-tool and fast. And they did and now they are number one.

But still. I think there could be fun show in the concept especially because the mom and the kid are very fun to watch but the way they paraded the lesbian couple and the… what the hell is the right way to call a person that’s in the “little people” group and also a mom? The “little people mom with the kid”? Gah. It’s all just so completely over the top. Who talks like that? I mean I like how Louis CK does it on his show but this here portrays it as “normal” how everybody behaves (sans mom and daughter who seem to be the only regular people on the show). Everything else is just such a caricature. And I don’t want to watch that. I don’t need that. I’d rather read troll comments on the internet because then I can at least leave feedback to call the obnoxious person to shut the f up. What am I supposed to do here? Yell at the TV telling the great-grandma not to act so racist and the gay guy not to act so faggotty self-entitled ass-holy? What use is that?

On “Louie” nobody expects me to like anyone but in the end the show makes you think. “The New Normal” really doesn’t in all the scenes without the mom and daughter.

Anyway, we’ll see. Maybe it’ll get better but I doubt it. There’s better comedy on TV. I just laughed my ass off watching Seth McFarlane on Saturday Night Live. There wasn’t a single bad scetch. What a season premiere – and the musical guest was great as well. Loved the joke on Weekend Update about “Goon”. That new comedy with Matthew Perry is another train wreck. Which reminds me what failure Andrea Anders is on this season. Has Hollywood finally figured out that she’s comedy poison?

I’m so glad I didn’t go off topic.

Speaking of which there’s a “news sitcom” in the first paragraph, better get rid of the gratuitous s ;-)

]]> By: Chuck Duncan https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-80 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:18:59 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-80 It’s been two weeks! A lot of shows, especially comedies, take time to develop a rhythm and to iron out all the kinks (look at The Seinfeld Chronicles!). If we were 13 weeks in and there was no character development, I’d say there was a problem, but I’m willing to give the show a couple more weeks to smooth away all the high concept rough edges, especially if it helps open people’s minds.

]]> By: Sebastian https://cliqueclack.com/p/can-new-normal-change-minds/#comment-79 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:13:37 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=306#comment-79 I’m really into comedy shows but this… It boggles the mind that shows like “Bent” aren’t on the air but this is.

Somebody should give Jane Espenson a call and make “Husbands” into a TV show. The way “The New Normal” portrays stereotypes is just completely offensive compared to “Husbands”. Good for you if you can find the humor, I’m just completely annoyed. I don’t even even want to think about how much money went into this. Bleg. I sincerely hope this gets axed within the next two weeks.

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