| re: My Company rant in general - not targeted to you, kidmanboy - with staging spoilers | |
| Posted by: Delvino 01:30 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
| In reply to: My Company rant in general - not targeted to you, kidmanboy - with staging spoilers - Ann 12:41 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
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| As someone who saw the original (albeit the Jane Russell era iteration, Susan Browning the only remaining major player), I can attest that the sitcom vibe in individual scenes was less than fresh even I was a tender 19. Without the score, the show wouldn't be ... well, what it is. But to your point: Robert seemed a peer of the recognizable group we met in 1971. You could imagine him working with the husbands, justifying their providing him with dating and sexual advice. Their overlapping lives were based on shared professional experiences. It's harder to understand where this Bobbi intersects, sensibility wise, since the good ol' boy camaraderie isn't baked in anymore. But I have more issue with updating the show, which I've delineated repeatedly, than the gender switch. I don't find that these folks behaving as post-millennials (I've gone on about Joanne being my mother's contemporary, not mine) but it might explain the push in the direction. If it's (still) funny, we accept some sort of universality. For me, not quite. | |
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