"In the old days, TV writers used to give their characters lovable traits
: He has a soft spot for the downtrodden! She's self-involved but ultimately principled!
He sings in the shower! She makes great banana bread, and sneezes cutely around cats!
These days, crazy is the new lovable. All you need to get viewers hooked on a character is a succulent psychological disorder or two: Awww, he's so obsessive-compulsive!
Look, an alcoholic with violent mood swings! How cute! Her sense of self is so malleable.
Oh, I love it when she gets all socially withdrawn and displays flattened affect like that!
... If your TV sets are fun house mirrors that reflect who we are (except with whiter teeth and more money),
then it looks like most of us are ready for the funny farm."
—salon.com TV critic Heather Havrilesky [salon.com, 7/29/07]
From a Plugged In Movie Review Newsletter
: He has a soft spot for the downtrodden! She's self-involved but ultimately principled!
He sings in the shower! She makes great banana bread, and sneezes cutely around cats!
These days, crazy is the new lovable. All you need to get viewers hooked on a character is a succulent psychological disorder or two: Awww, he's so obsessive-compulsive!
Look, an alcoholic with violent mood swings! How cute! Her sense of self is so malleable.
Oh, I love it when she gets all socially withdrawn and displays flattened affect like that!
... If your TV sets are fun house mirrors that reflect who we are (except with whiter teeth and more money),
then it looks like most of us are ready for the funny farm."
—salon.com TV critic Heather Havrilesky [salon.com, 7/29/07]
From a Plugged In Movie Review Newsletter
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