The “devil incarnate” rip is too much for me to overlook, even if it makes the person saying it look bad. There’s no balance. They’re just ripping Sarah Palin apart. Too much of an agenda for me. I expect this from SNL and Letterman, not from a mainstream drama.
The ultimate issue, of course, is that in Hollywood, the angle you describe is accepted, while if a show was unbalanced going the other way, it would be "controversial".
I don't watch TV, only DVDs, so I control what I see. I didn 't even know this show existed until this thread. I have a feeling that's one reason every show seems to put this kind of bias out there, so their target audience will feel comfortable that "our kind" is making the show. It says something about the inability of people to ignore politics even in an entertainment situation. When my parents were kids, liberals and conservatives just made entertainment, and I'm sure assumed a mix of both would be watching it. Now, there's Us and The Enemy, and libs wanna make sure the unimaginative PC audience members are reassured that no evil conservatives are secretly indoctrinating them while they watch their silly shows.
Have you ever watched any of the Law & Order franchise? It takes place in multi-ethnic, multi-racial NYC - but most of the bad guys are white-collar whites.
You’re exaggerating. There’s balance between Baranski’s character and Gary Cole’s, and she doesn’t reject him out of hand because he likes Sarah, just jokes about it. You’re taking it waaaaaaaaay too seriously.
I’ll continue to watch it. I like Gary Cole’s character a lot and want to see where they end up going with the two of them.