Posted on 01/27/2011 9:02:49 AM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
I have to laugh every time I hear leftists defend their awful ideas like population control, universal "health care," and the benefits of Communism. As usual, the first response that always comes to my mind is, "You first!" Tonight's example comes from NBC's new show starring Kathy Bates, Harry's Law. I don't go into network TV shows expecting conservative values or anything, but I am always surprised when they go off the deep end pushing the Left's point of view with the ferocity of terrorized Scotts wielding a battering ram. Harry's Law is so far left and over the top, it's riotously funny for reasons the writers never intended.
I missed the first episode so I started with episode two, but I quickly figured out that Harry (Bates' character) left a high-powered position at a respectable law firm to open a storefront in the ghetto. This is a favorite story-line for the Left. They only love lawyers when they defend guilty criminals for free. Prosecutors need not apply. So it began in the usual way, propping up people who gave up the American Dream to work for socks full of change from the desperately poor. (How they pay for their unlimited data plans and designer suits is a mystery.) This show is chocked full of stereotypes and, dare I say racist ones, like the "wise old black woman."
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These legal shows are all embarrassingly bad. They ought to make one reflective of the legal profession’s current and future reality (too many schools producing too many grads for an absolutely saturated market). They could call it “Do you want fries with that?” The one good thing about the show, The Practice, was that lawyers were for the most part depicted as what the overwhelming majority of them are: middle class working stiffs.
Yep - I was half watching it at the time - when I heard her spew that foolish, leftist tripe out of her cake hole, I changed the channel, and will not return.
As is USA network's Fairly Legal with Sarah Shahi. ... Pretty girl with no truth filter.
Thanks for the warning. I have that in the DVR but haven't watched it yet. USA needs to be careful to keep its focus on non-ideological entertainment. Shows like Burn Notice, White Collar and Royal Pains are extremely entertaining and enjoyable because they focus on telling a good tale with interesting and like-able characters.
If they want to get "preachy" then it's adios... /g
Others?
Stock drama characters often included:
The Golden-Hearted Prostitute: Yes, she sells her body for money but, deep down, she’s a really great role model.
The Crooked Priest: Before Hollywood learned they were all pedophiles, they used to show priests who practiced all sorts of hypocritical mischief.
I don’t know if these are still in many tv series and movies because I watch so little anymore but they used to be there.
The ‘Good’ Token Minority may still be around too.
As is USA network's Fairly Legal with Sarah Shahi.
Absolutely correct on both counts. I get a strange kick out of cataloguing the commie/lefty propaganda, disguised as entertainment. It is also a good teaching moment when you point out the well hidden slaps at Conservatism.
These two shows however, leave no doubt as to their intention.
Malignant Manufacturer-—routinely murders bright young investigative reporters who discover that waste polonium is being disposed of in Meals on Wheels distribution and piped into day-care-center cafeterias.
“Look for this show to follow ‘Outlaw’ into the dustbin in a couple weeks.”
Somehow, I just assumed it would make it for a whole season, but now that you prompted me think about it, you might be right: it might not last a season.
And it’s not just liberal claptrap the alphabet networks produce as “entertainment”, it’s just that almost everything they do is plain ordinary claptrap across the board.
On the other hand, HBO, Showtime, USA Network, A&E, and others are now beginning to produce more and more original and interesting shows, with some channels approaching a full prime-time lineup.
And yet, even with their audiences withering away as they desert the alphabets for channels with wittier and more interesting programming, the alphabets persist with their lame, insipid, stupid, mindless, claptrap shows. What I don’t really understand is why the alphabets produce such shows. The alphabets only have to look at the programs on those other channels to know what to do. They have barrels of money to throw at talent. Why don’t they improve? Does management mettle so much with those who create that creativity is totally stifled? Does management think their current programming is good? Are they still making enough profits that there is no impetus to change and they’re perfectly willing to ride a slowly sinking ship to the bottom? Is management so ossified that it is impossible to change, even with new management? I’d like to hear some opinions.
I know several TV writers and that's exactly what they complain about. It used to be that you dealt with one show runner, one studio exec and one network exec giving them notes. Now dozens of people at every level are commenting and criticizing, often contradicting each other and in trying to appease them all every shred of originality is relentlessly removed.
Then you missed her hot tub scene in “About Schmidt”.
Consider yourself lucky.
Talk about 'What has been seen, cannot be unseen.'
I think what’s happening is that the alphabet networks are more influenced by New York City culture than anything else and they mistakenly assume that what liberal-left New Yorkers like MUST be popular with the rest of the country. Twenty years ago they could get away with this thinking but not anymore.
Now, if people don’t like what’s on they can play something from a Blu-Ray, a DVD, DVR, they can get online to see programs they like, they can turn on a game console, or go get on a social networking site. We’ve got choices anymore and what the elites in NYC like doesn’t dictate our viewing choices anymore.
I guess that critic is referring to the idiotic rant against Rush Limbaugh that Bates throws into a hearing in front of a judge...it was totally out of place, had nothing to do with the so-called case she was arguing and I doubt that even a liberal judge would allow it in real life.
The show lost me right there...it's no wonder that the ratings suck for most of these networks.
A rant against Rush Limbaugh. How original!
They should take the writers out back and shoot them.
Saying a network program is ‘claptrap’ is being redundant. I watched CBS for the last time last Sunday for the Jets-Steelers game and I don’t anticipate watching it again until next football season.
Love it!
Wish I had a few around to kick downstairs, but I live in Bible-clinging, gun-loving country.
*All L&O’s are bad. They’re not providing entertainment. They’re shoving propaganda down our throats. *
You have to think they are making big money for NBC, though...think about it, they spend NOTHING writing the shows. They simply find some case from last weeks newspaper [ripped off from today’s headlines!] and make the guilty villian a conservative. Then they round up the cast and change the names from last week’s show in the script and shoot the scenes.
99% of violent criminals in America are white business men.
Everyone involved in the “creative” process is out of touch with the consumer. They all have the same backgrounds, live in the same places, do the same things. And none of those backgrounds, places, or things are shared by their consumers. So they remain insulated from their failures in a cocoon of smug self-congratulation while the viewers wander away to more fulfilling venues.
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