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Title: Transmissions: Let's get real
Post by: Shana A on January 12, 2012, 12:08:28 PM
Post by: Shana A on January 12, 2012, 12:08:28 PM
Transmissions: Let's get real
Published 01/12/2012
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67320 (http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67320)
ABC premiered its sitcom, Work It . Its only redeeming quality is that it will serve as the benchmark for bad television for years to come, right alongside Hello, Larry and AfterMASH . The show gained negative ratings across the board, and was pounded by the critics.
Meanwhile, I get to sit back and smugly note that I saw this coming. "Guys dress up as women to get something" is a dead concept, one from which movies and television have wrung out every last dram of humor. Time to hang it up along side Francis the Talking Mule and airline food jokes.
And don't even start me on the misogyny and racism that made up some of the other so-called humor in this stinker of a show. I can only assume the show's creators had hoped to make something so offensive that it would pick up a crowd of viewers who wanted to revel in it. They seem to have failed to understand their potential audience, and will now likely pay the price.
Published 01/12/2012
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67320 (http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67320)
ABC premiered its sitcom, Work It . Its only redeeming quality is that it will serve as the benchmark for bad television for years to come, right alongside Hello, Larry and AfterMASH . The show gained negative ratings across the board, and was pounded by the critics.
Meanwhile, I get to sit back and smugly note that I saw this coming. "Guys dress up as women to get something" is a dead concept, one from which movies and television have wrung out every last dram of humor. Time to hang it up along side Francis the Talking Mule and airline food jokes.
And don't even start me on the misogyny and racism that made up some of the other so-called humor in this stinker of a show. I can only assume the show's creators had hoped to make something so offensive that it would pick up a crowd of viewers who wanted to revel in it. They seem to have failed to understand their potential audience, and will now likely pay the price.