Posted on 12/05/2016 11:49:01 AM PST by Mount Athos
By total coincidence I watched two earlier episodes of the Great Indoors last night. It's pretty harsh about Millennials -- they're effeminate, they're lazy, they're addicted to their phones, they want participation trophies just for "trying really hard," they're arrested development children, they get their feelings hurt by everything, etc.
After the main character made a Millennial cry, he was taken to a meeting with Human Resources and corporate counsel. The Human Resources woman explained that Millennials are very "fragile" (I think that was the word) and that their are actual corporate consultants who train corporations about how to work around their fragility. (And that's an actual true fact.)
The Human Resources person (and older woman) then expressed her desire, if I remember right, to slap Millennials around until they stopped being crybabies.
I don't know if I can recommend the show (or any TV show). But it is, honest to God, pretty damn harsh towards Millennials. To the point where even I winced, I hate them.
Anyway, Michael Walsh posts about Millennial reporters getting butthurt about a show that says they get butthurt about everything.
I don't think the show's going to last -- a couple of years ago ABC did a similar show about Millennials and social media addiction called Selfie. It was pretty good, but four shows in, and they had pretty much exhausted all the jokes they could do about that limited-in-scope critique premise, and they just turned into another office workplace sitcom. The ratings, which had never been good, got worse, and it was cancelled after like eight episodes.
The Great Indoors is burning through its Millennial joke material at a very high, um, burn rate, and I imagine that by episode six it will also be just another workplace sitcom with the Millennial bashing only occasionally mentioned.
It's an interesting cultural moment, though -- maybe people are sick enough of this crap by now to enjoy a show mocking it to the extent they hadn't been when Selfie was on.
Interestingly, even though series star Joel McHale appeared in pro-Hillary ads and seems to be a liberal douchebag, maybe even he's had his fill of the Millennials.
Mr. niteowl77
All of this tumblr “offense-queen” crap is going to come crashing down on them.
I’ve watched a few episodes (because I remember the main character from another show I liked).
Mostly, the jokes are very predictable...and the schtick is wearing thin fairly quickly. I’m 46, and maybe I’m just not ready to go full on ‘you darn kids’ yet.
Hilarious. Pissonthemall.
I spent 40 years in industry, mostly under government contracts.
If the producers want to give me a call I could outline a couple of seasons worth of material over & above the predicted six shows.
Scott Adams has been mining the cubicle world for material for decades with “Dilbert”. I suspect that the Millennials will provide rich ground for quite some time.
Blasphemy! Statler & Waldorf were awesome, Millenials are pussies.
Are they forced to watch it?
Washing dishes by hand? (“They don’t even know to turn cups upside down to drain,” a housewife once told me in wonder.)
You’ve Gotta Love Millennials - Micah Tyler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpE1Pa8vvI
Bump for later ... I have an idea that this could end up to be a goldmine of jokes and sites regarding Millennials.
I’m sorry to say this, as I do not want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but Ace writes poorly. In fact, he writes like a Millennial.
Concerned cat doesn’t seem too concerned.
Hey! That’s not fair! I’m sure he’s won awards for his writing! And stuff!
I hate that show. Bad acting, bad plot. We all know millenials are whiners. That show is stupid. Sorry. I guarantee you it will not make it past season 1. Even with that big name star who is always good.
I’m older, and I watched the first epi, I think.
Wasn’t worth watching a second time. The guy (girl?) in the tent getting a participation trophy for a “business” “meeting” across the room?
Maybe we should have a “kick a millenial in the shins day”.
They ARE a whiney crowd of dirty, whiney, lazy wimps.
They are such coddled and immature clowns.
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