Classic TV Shows they shouldn't or couldn't remake now?
Oct 7, 2018 21:52:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 21:52:08 GMT
Most shows (ethnic or not) that broadcasted the stereotype that in reality is hated by most people who are effected by it. Roseanne and her #GOWhiteTrash mentality. Good Times and their #DynomeyteGhetto nonsense.
Posted by amyghost hours ago
Too many to name. Ironically, many of these shows breathed fresh air onto a whole host of taboo subjects, social, racial and sexual. In today's hyper-sensitized climate, topics and themes that could be treated naturally and sensibly couldn't be touched with a ten-foot-pole now. (And someone will probably put up an outraged post claiming that I just insulted people of Polish descent with that remark
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Too many to name. Ironically, many of these shows breathed fresh air onto a whole host of taboo subjects, social, racial and sexual. In today's hyper-sensitized climate, topics and themes that could be treated naturally and sensibly couldn't be touched with a ten-foot-pole now. (And someone will probably put up an outraged post claiming that I just insulted people of Polish descent with that remark
.)In terms of race another show that strikes me is Diff'rent Strokes. This Is Us kind of touches on the topic a little but in a very over the top PC way. Where the white couple adopt a black kid who has been abandoned by his black parents. They then get made to feel bad about it by black people and even have to fight for custody. It is kind of PC and Anti PC without actually meaning to be Anti at all.
I think what is annoying is you have these wealthy privileged people like Roseanne playing the part of this lower class housewife as if she really knows anything about it at all. We had a show down here called Kath and Kim which did the same thing. The Bogans (Aussie term for Redneck) loved it but I don't think they ever worked out that they were being made fun of by their social betters.
You can't make an honest or truly satirical show anymore, there are so many really funny and interesting ideas you could use too. Like how about an Arab Muslim who goes to America/The West in search of Satan only to find that no one cares? A black person who constantly tries to find racism but only ends up looking angry and racist themselves?
It would be hilarious but you can't do any of it.