Boilermaker Rick wrote:
ZephMarshack wrote:
I had this preconception too but if anything I think the show is brutally honest in its treatment of the main characters and how solipsistic they are. That doesn't mean it's for everyone but I think a lot of the generational voice hype is really a product of critics either just not getting the show or trying to make it something that it's not.
No way. It's simply a celebration of how tough it is to be someone who doesn't have it tough at all. It's just over dramatic whining by girls who act like they are 14 years old when they should be adults. It's a celebration of how these women invent drama to make their life seem difficult.
There is nothing redeeming about this show.
I don't really see it glorifying any aspect of the characters' situations at all really, certainly not any more so than any other setting for an episodic comedy. The "my economic situation after college sucks" stuff pretty much faded to the periphery after the first half of the first season, and even then I don't think it was super prevalent.
The same goes for the characters' attitudes as well, which is why the oft-stated idea that it's simply some rah rah feminism show is bizarre to me, as pretty much all of the male character are presented far more sympathetically than their female counterparts.
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No wonder he has such a huge ego.
