Yeah, I had everyone at my job talking about how it was amazing, but I should have realized that they were all hipsters from the mid-west living in Brooklyn and that this show was meant for them. It just falls into the Girls category of really annoying hipster depictions of ny that I will never experience. And yeah I've never been into Anis's comedy too much (I did see him live once at a small secret show for free and it was pretty funny but I was going in with no expectations) and I just don't see how this show is supposed to be funny. I think I've giggled like three times.Hype wrote:I strongly dislike Aziz Ansari. I don't think he's funny, and I think his annoying man-boy routine is probably the worst attempt at comedy since Carrot Top. But I gave this show a shot after a bunch of my apparently culturally empty academic-leftist-feminist friends started raving about how incredible it was. I watched the whole thing and just thought: Jesus fucking christ, could you pander any more transparently to the 25+ yuppie-cum-hipster crowd? Did you really think I wouldn't notice how many times you mentioned some currently mom-friendly bullshit app/tech/service shit? Saying the word 'uber' isn't funny.ive watched most of master of none and i dont really like it. i think it was really hyped up. its not funny and it just feels kinda overdone to me. im not sure if ill finish it.
Worse, the near unanimous praise Ansari received for the episode dealing with the experience of women struck me as focused on entirely the wrong fucking point. It reminded me of the conversation that happened here a while back... but pandered to a certain insidious form of pseudo-epistemology that is currently being maintained by a sub-group of academic feminists: the "I'm a [white?] male, so I just can't understand what your life has been or will be or is like, so I guess I better shut the fuck up and assume everything you say is authoritative, not just about your own experience but about the general category of experience under which you fall." This is not the more reasonable-sounding admission that one has simply failed to take certain features of another person's experience into consideration, but a radical separation of the sexes into experientially divided camps. I think this is disgusting because it makes empathy impossible by definition (and seems to replace it with childish commiseration). It was, as far as I can tell, the same stupid marketer-driven pseudo-culture, chewed up by Ansari's idiotic man-child unfunniness, taking advantage of a certain nebulous obfuscation that sometimes pops up in current discussions of women's rights and spitting out emotional pablum for vacuous consumers of pop-garbage. And I still have a hard time understanding how so many of my exceedingly highly educated friends could fall for this shit...
Jessica Jones suffers from exactly the same problem, but just filtered through the comic-book hero pseudo-geek sub-genre rather than the pseudo-comedy sub-genre.
As for the feminist episode, yeah, I didn't think it was particularly well done. I mean I guess if you want to take the low ball approach, you can say atleast theres an episode out there talking about this. But I thought they could have done a lot more with the guy masturbating on the subway. But I guess asking a show to bring up carceral feminism is too real.
Broad City is still the best and most realistic/hilarious depiction of millennial ny i think. i fucking love that show.
I was going to give Jessica Jones a go after I finish making a murderer cause I heard good things, but now I am less optimistic if you say it's the same kind of shit.