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I just finished the season, and imo this is the best one yet. It felt a bit more even to me, and it also handled all the plot threads better. and continued to be a surreal joke machine in the grand zany tradition of 30 Rock.
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twistedmentat posted:The way some people online are talking, I should trade in all my progressive cred and start wearing a MAGA hat and read Briebart becuase I enjoy this season. Holy poo poo people are taking issue with everything, calling the show racist, and anti-woman, pro-rape and so on. I try not to let outrage addicts bother me, but the criticisms leveled at that episode in particular have been really wrongheaded. I know Fey and Carlock are middle aged, but they seem to have a pretty good grasp on millennials, and the criticism is more sophisticated than "lol look how 'woke' they are". The biting part is when it's shown that they use a cockeyed interpretation of feminism to justify doing what they would've done anyway. The show is not without problems (Dong was a problematic character, they really should have known the heat they'd drawn for casting Jane Krakowski as a Lakota native, etc.). but the point of the rowing girls was that no matter how sophisticated and knowledgeable college kids act, they're really still just kids, and generally all that learning is used to service continuing to be kids, but with a couple layers of irony added. There's something really fascinating about contrasting Kimmy with those girls. It's kids playacting as grownups vs. an adult that more often than not acts like a kid. part of what makes Kimmy such a good character is that she's a lot more emotionally mature than she appears to be. That makes the conclusion that she has "emotional intelligence" rather than booksmarts really work.
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