Seeing Yourself

[ayun]

It's a neat coincidence that the day a set of remarkably un-diverse Oscar nominations were announced, and the week Eddie Huang threw a bit of a call-out bomb, and a couple of days before we saw Selma, Andy and I finished a three-day binge-watch of TransparentI didn't know much about the show, and what I did now had mostly to do with its A-plot

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[clevernonsense]

Oh god, this: “America ain’t three fifths bad.” #Compromise

[ayun]

Right? Made me more interested in the show than I ever would have been, even though it's aggressively pointing out how much of a failure the show probably is.

[clevernonsense]

Yeah I feel the same way. I wonder if he was able to salvage much (disclosure: I immediately stopped at that quote to post it here because it was so great, then got sidetracked and never finished the article).

[ayun]

If you never get around to the rest of the article, here's a spoiler: He feels like on-balance, yeah, it's a good thing, and there's a moment at the tail end of the pilot that he seems to be unreservedly proud of. Only he says it way funnier than I did.

[ma_ee_uh]

Ooh, enjoyed reading this (and now I am going to give Transparent a try, asap ... )

[ayun]

It's a good show, which I don't think I actually mentioned anywhere!

[ma_ee_uh]

It was heavily implied! :D

[herself_nyc]

Wonderful post.

[jasonlizard]

Yes, stories are important to us. I love it when you get into a groove and tell yours. Like this. It was a great read with nice observations.