And is one of my reasons for so often deploying my "this show was secretly a comedy" tag on tumblr.
It absolutely challenges the 'drama/comedy' divide, and its embrace of comedy only makes it a far more satisfying drama for me than shows that are Relentlessly Very Serious Dramas.
Agreed on loving Josh, but equally loving seeing him hoist with his own petard in the press room.
CCH Pounder was amazing as Secretary O'Leary, and I wish we'd seen her return for more episodes.
Yes, she's one of many who made an impression in just the one appearance.
I wish they'd given more time to the way women and minorities are forced to bend over backwards to appeasing the sensibilities of the white male majority, even when they're in the right, but I'll take what I can get.
I agree. I think there's a structural isssue because most of the main characters (representing the creative team? And Washington at the time) are the majority POV, and the show while aware of this (and feeling white male liberal guilt about it) is stuck to that POV. ut Looking at it now, this jumps out even more, but I've been trying to remember that the show was a part of discussing these topics and an influcence in how we're looking at it now and thinking it could have done this even more and better.
Mendoza refutes all the 'erratic driving' claims himself, and of course the drinking possibility is a non-starter. I don't think it's unusual for a show like this - which never makes a point of unreliable narrators or similar devices - to expect that we'll take our heroes' side without much convincing. It seemed like a silly thing to get hung up on, and I do think sometimes Josh had a tendency to look for things not to like, to provoke more discussion with Hrishi.
Thank you! One is aware that Molina is coming at it not as a fan who is thinking critically, but, yeah,his 'critically' is a bit like carping at times.
It's amazing that this very heavy, quietly emotional, serious scene appears in the same episode as "secwet pwan to fight infwation" and both work brilliantly.
Yeah, and a testament to how good the show is. When I was writing above about the balance between comedy and drama, I wanted to qualify that with the fact that both elements have to be strong nonetheless, but are here, and these are two excellent examples of that.
I don't know that Joey would have seen enough of their interaction to pick up on Josh/Donna vibes, but I'd have thought the distance between them made her discount him at this point. But yeah, her and Al Kiefer is just befuddling.
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It absolutely challenges the 'drama/comedy' divide, and its embrace of comedy only makes it a far more satisfying drama for me than shows that are Relentlessly Very Serious Dramas.
Agreed on loving Josh, but equally loving seeing him hoist with his own petard in the press room.
CCH Pounder was amazing as Secretary O'Leary, and I wish we'd seen her return for more episodes.
Yes, she's one of many who made an impression in just the one appearance.
I wish they'd given more time to the way women and minorities are forced to bend over backwards to appeasing the sensibilities of the white male majority, even when they're in the right, but I'll take what I can get.
I agree. I think there's a structural isssue because most of the main characters (representing the creative team? And Washington at the time) are the majority POV, and the show while aware of this (and feeling white male liberal guilt about it) is stuck to that POV. ut Looking at it now, this jumps out even more, but I've been trying to remember that the show was a part of discussing these topics and an influcence in how we're looking at it now and thinking it could have done this even more and better.
Mendoza refutes all the 'erratic driving' claims himself, and of course the drinking possibility is a non-starter. I don't think it's unusual for a show like this - which never makes a point of unreliable narrators or similar devices - to expect that we'll take our heroes' side without much convincing. It seemed like a silly thing to get hung up on, and I do think sometimes Josh had a tendency to look for things not to like, to provoke more discussion with Hrishi.
Thank you! One is aware that Molina is coming at it not as a fan who is thinking critically, but, yeah,his 'critically' is a bit like carping at times.
It's amazing that this very heavy, quietly emotional, serious scene appears in the same episode as "secwet pwan to fight infwation" and both work brilliantly.
Yeah, and a testament to how good the show is. When I was writing above about the balance between comedy and drama, I wanted to qualify that with the fact that both elements have to be strong nonetheless, but are here, and these are two excellent examples of that.
I don't know that Joey would have seen enough of their interaction to pick up on Josh/Donna vibes, but I'd have thought the distance between them made her discount him at this point. But yeah, her and Al Kiefer is just befuddling.