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SPOILER!! The use of cliches in the setup

Posted by:	MarkBearSF 08:00 pm EDT 05/03/15
In reply to:	re: It Shoulda Been...nominated - wnpverona 06:29 pm EDT 05/03/15

(somewhat spoilery) A friend recently posted a complaint on his Facebook page. (He's a creative contributor) In it, he claims that most reviewers missed the conceit. Specifically, that the familiar, somewhat cheezy, cliches in the first part of the show are specifically designed that way. The writers wanted the audience to be subversively lulled by the cliche and overfamiliar setup to then be smacked by the turnaround - and as such question a lot of gender and orientation-based assumptions underlying things. If the setup had been more urbane, current or arch, more of the audience may have been offput or alientated and most would have likely been less surprised by the reveal. I haven't seen the show (and surely have somewhat misrepresented his better-expressed opinion) - but what do you think about the argument that much of the style of the piece was intentionally cliche and to overlook that is to miss much of the point? Mark

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