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notasapleasure · 15 days ago

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ok my power's back and I'm here with a very urgent question:

how does a show with such a (mostly) nuanced and thoughtful take on a deaf character, with empathy for so many of the oddballs in its stories, come up with the same old stereotype of the drunken, shambolic, Oirishman played for laughs? OMITB season 4, so far you are more the show I feared you were and less the show seasons 1-3 proved you to be: i.e. a vehicle for celebrities to explore the cavernous recesses of their own backsides.

#i kept hoping for a shoe to drop. for the accent to drop. for it to be revealed of course he wasn't irish of course this was as offensive #as it's always been #but then the funeral leaned into the parody of irish-american cop clubs and i ????#and you bet i hate the stuff with levy longoria and galafinakis #all that self-congratulatory 'isn't the industry weird' bullshit with none of the heart of s3 #anyway. i'm obviously going to keep watching. but ughhhhh

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