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Man...
wtf
Ok, people told me I couldn't judge the show
until I watched it (I'd previously only read
a couple articles and seen a few scenes), and
now that I've watched it, I think even worse
of it than I did before lol.
Some of the stuff I expected. I was told that
the only decent character on the show was the
gay guy. That's pretty much true. EVERYBODY
on the show is a villian/victimizer. Wtf?
I can't think of a show I've ever seen like that.
An interesting tidbit here tho, is that Lee Daniels
is gay, so perhaps that's just him giving us
some insight into his moral superiority complex.
Maybe he feels like everybody around him is fucked
up, but he isn't (the scene where Jamal was thrown
in the garbage, allegedly happened to Daniels as well).
The only time Jamal did something crazy is when he was
being pressured by his pops. He's always the victim
from the beginning of the 1st season to the end of the 2nd.
The really crazy thing about the plot line
is that there's never a moment without a dramatic
occurrence (especially in the 2nd season, my god).
It's over-stimulation on the level of video games
to a 10 yr old. It got to a point where every.single.
scene found somebody losing it, somebody getting shot,
somebody just doing something super evil. It was just
plain cartoonish. Considering this, I see why alotta
people find the show addictive. Just like that 10 yr
old playing video games, after so much of that, you don't
wanna do anything else... don't wanna go outside,
don't wanna converse face to face, because nothing
can compete with that level of stimulation. I can see
fans of that show not wanting to watch anything else,
due to not having patience to wait on a story to build.
God forbid trying to read a book.
Beginning of season 2, we know Lucious is guilty as
shit, but they use Black activism to ride for him...
sending the message that niggas really be guilty.
Very irresponsible to use a protest of mass incarceration
of Black males to defend a character like Lucious.
I know they show is full of villains, but that shit
crossed over into real life, and I wasn't feeling that.
Don't touch current issues if that's how you're gonna
do it. But hey... white supremacist-approved TV.
The only lasting relationship on there is, of course,
the interracial one. I already know one of the rules
of white supremacist TV is to never show a lasting,
healthy Black relationship and all, but they were all
kinds of overboard with the kissing between these two.
They're married, so I expect affection, but in the
beginning of the first season it's like they were
kissing every time they were shown or she was kneeling
to go down on him. It just seemed excessive to the
point of being corny.
Speaking of that, the non-Black mates brought into
the show always got caught up in any evil due to
their involvement with a Black character. Wife hit
dude over the head and killed him for Dre (accident).
Lesbian chick took over the business for her Black gf.
Hakeem's lil mexican fiance was just this angelic girl who
ultimately refused to be involved with these Black
thugs.
Speaking of Hakeem, I couldn't take this nigga's
character serious worth a damn. His raps suck,
and he's not a good actor. He didn't have the
screen presence for me to believe that the characters
in the show even took him seriously as the CEO of
the company. That shit was some of the most
unbelievable TV I've ever seen.
The 2 things I actually liked about the show:
The music.
Season 2 they finally show some background on Lucious
and how he came to be the straight up monster he is.
Overall tho? Shit just look like more propaganda
to me on many levels.
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Days like this I miss Sha Mecca
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