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2126943, I don't place judgment. People can like what they want.
Posted by Orbit_Established, Wed Feb-06-13 01:33 PM
>i.e. that television shows that function for the pure purpose
>of entertaining rather than prompting discussion are far
>superior.

And part of my point is that 'Girls' doesn't *really*
prompt discussion any more than 'Living Single' did,
and the only reason it does is for reasons that have
nothing to do with the content or quality of the
show. Its all ambiance and circumstance.

Art criticism exists under the assumption that said
piece of art was produced for artistic, aesthetic purposes.

That's where the thousands and thousands and thousands of
pages of literary criticism come from: people deciphering what
T.S. Eliot was really saying. T.S. Eliot was certainly
commenting directly on some things, but was mostly just
writing a book.

'Girls' was produced so that art critics can talk about
it. That is the reason why its made. Not for expression.
Not for exposition. It was made for the discussion after
the show is over.

This doesn't make it *worse* but it does make it *different*



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