Speaking of the 2021 Cultural Revolution (as we were on this very site just yesterday), a TVWriter™ frequent visitor has sent me a link to another insightful analysis of the problem.
Kathryn VanArendonk’s article comes at the inclusion situation from a new angle, starting with the masterful heading:
TV’s White Guys Are in Crisis
And taking it from there with:
Current cultural revolution got you down? Not getting what everyone younger than, oh, 40ish, is bitching about this time around?
Despair about what appears to be the destruction of a perfectly fine civilization is par for the course for people of a certain age. I know this because I’ve experienced it myself, from just about every angle. But I’m here to tell you, my friends, that understanding is just a click away. On Netflix, believe it or not.
THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.
I loved the first season of Ted Lasso. It was just what I needed to survive pandemic depression. More than survive – watching the show enabled me to fully embrace what I thought of as THE POWER OF THE HAPPY ENDING.
Season 2, however, is a disappointment. Same powerful outlook, but with a far less powerful result because something I couldn’t put my finger on was missing.
The season is about halfway over now, and that mysterious key element is still in hiding, but my half-assed “WTF am I not getting?” feeling has finally gone away thanks to a force I’d never have imagined would do the job.
Do you know the “No Bumps” rule? If readers have to re-read what you’ve written, you lose their attention & your credibility. Make sure your writing flows.
I learned the above back in the ’80s, from the assistant to the CBS VP of Development who was supervising the pilot I was writing.