whaaaaat

[giddygeek]

Okay, but can someone explain to me WHY Fox is running a show called I Hate My Teenage Daughter? I mean, I get that teenagers can be frustrating, but really, is that going to be the focal point of an entire television showI just. The very idea fills me with wrath towards everyone involved, and a huge amount of sympathy for teenage girls, who get a

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[plumtastic]

The very brief write up in my newspaper (under "Shows to Watch", even) described the premise of two high school outcasts grown up with uber-popular daughters, and they don't know how to deal with them.

That, as a basic premise, sounds like it could be Freaky Friday. But the rest of the write up made it sound like the mother's, I don't know, go all mean girls on the own daughters, and wow, extremely uncool. Dude, it would be just as uncool if the premise was reversed, with the daughters as "outcasts".

The whole thing makes me sick. Why can't we get some awesome show where geek daughter drags her mom to Comic Con or something? I would watch the hell out of that show on a week-by-week basis.

Shaming - bad. Finding the good and embracing it - awesome.

[giddygeek]

Under "Shows to Watch"...ugh. I mean, the best thing about it, I think, is that it sounded mercilessly unfunny from what I heard on the radio. Unless it's a surprise, sleeper hit of awesome, I don't think it has much chance of lasting out a season; hurray, hurray.

the mother's, I don't know, go all mean girls on the own daughters, and wow, extremely uncool. Dude, it would be just as uncool if the premise was reversed, with the daughters as "outcasts".

Agreeeeed so very very much. Lea and I were discussing how much we dislike the trope of 'this one kind of girl is super-cool and all others are inferior!' whether it applies to 'beautiful' girls or quirky girls or whatever; it just, ugh. It doesn't sit well.

The thing is, I suppose, that people on TV will never be as complicated and awesome and troubled and wonderful as real people. But c'mon, this is a bit ridiculous.

[natashasolten]

Haven't seen it but sounds like, from the comments, this show is a comedy. To me the title reads as "satirical." Thus, many people will become offended and not "get" the humor/irony of it because a LOT of people don't get/like satire even if it is well-done.

I like laughing at religious irony too, but many of my friends do not.

To each his own, but I thought, when I read the title, it was funny.

Just another opinion...

[giddygeek]

Well, I do like satire when it's well done; this sounds, to me, like neither satire nor comedy. At least, not good satire or comedy, which almost makes it doubly offensive; after all, if I thought it was offensive but well done, I could at least give them points for effort. I can't, given what I've heard and read, and no--I don't think it's funny at all.

[shayheyred]

The Daily News critic hated it beyond hate. His only upbeat note was that, like puberty, this show will eventually pass.

[giddygeek]

It won't last long I have to agree, even without having read the review. It sounds wretched on a lot of levels!

Edited for typos caused by keyboarding around cat-fluff. *g*

[janet_carter]

SHOWS THAT WOULD NEVER EXIST GENDERSWAPPED, UGH.

[tricksterquinn]

...oh, thank heavens. I thought at first it was a REALITY SHOW. This is awful, but not quite as bad.

Still pretty amazingly terrible, though, wow.