Exactly. It's just so messy and complicated.
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'Chosen'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
sumi - Aug 19, 2008 8:06:05 am PDT #1182 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
Hayden - Aug 19, 2008 8:15:06 am PDT #1183 of 11998
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
They're getting pretty close to making Betty completely unlikeable.
Pretty close? Man, I think just about everyone other than Harry is completely unlikeable. What's amazing about the show is that it makes all of these characters who are utterly appalling 85% of the time so damn compelling.
megan walker - Aug 19, 2008 8:20:56 am PDT #1184 of 11998
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
What's amazing about the show is that it makes all of these characters who are utterly appalling 85% of the time so damn compelling.
Seriously, you'd think it was HBO.
Vortex - Aug 19, 2008 8:22:36 am PDT #1185 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
It's interesting. I wouldn't like Betty or want to be friends with her, but in my mind, she isn't a bad person. In the sense that she hasn't done anything reprehensible, while most of the other characters have. She's sometimes not very bright, and her insecurities lead her into stupid situations, but not a bad person.
Also, why does every married man cheat on his wife. I can't recall seeing a situation where a married man has the opportunity to to cheat, yet chooses not to.
megan walker - Aug 19, 2008 8:27:02 am PDT #1186 of 11998
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Also, why does every married man cheat on his wife. I can't recall seeing a situation where a married man has the opportunity to to cheat, yet chooses not to.
Same reason everyone smokes? Even at the height of its popularity, I'm pretty sure smoking levels never went over 50% of adults.
Barb - Aug 19, 2008 8:33:12 am PDT #1187 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
Was everybody really so miserable all the time, with only flashes of laughter to ameliorate the grimness?
I think that's the beauty of having set it against the backdrop of an advertising agency--that veneer of pretty they worked so hard to sell being the complete antithesis of what "real life" was like.
Fuels the cynicism-- I think it's part of what made that dinner scene with the couple who owned the peanut company so heartbreaking. They were, while a successful well-off couple, too normal to fit into New York. (Weren't they from Pittsburgh?)
Vortex - Aug 19, 2008 8:34:14 am PDT #1188 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
The Utz people?
Barb - Aug 19, 2008 8:35:55 am PDT #1189 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
Yeah, them. Where the Lenny Bruce-like comic called the wife a Hindenburg.
Vortex - Aug 19, 2008 8:40:06 am PDT #1190 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
yeah, they were from PA
Jon B. - Aug 19, 2008 9:08:54 am PDT #1191 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I was at a party this past weekend, and there was a huge jar of Utz pretzels. I pointed and laughed.