Like many Netflix users, I’m watching various TV shows in parallel. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, one of them is “The Gilmore Girls”. Another is “Dr. Who”, and a third is “Marvel’s Agents of Shield.”
It’s hard to choose a favorite, when you’re ping-ponging between Joss Whedon, Steven Moffat and Amy Sherman-Paladino. I would love to have all three of them over for dinner sometime. If that ever happens, I promise I will record their glittering conversation for posterity.
One thing I’ve notice is that in the most important sense, they are all essentially the same show. Well, not literally. One is concerned with the dating life of a single mom and her teenage daughter, another is concerned with saving the world from alien menaces, and the third is concerned with, um, saving the world from alien menaces.
But really, underneath all that, they are pretty much exactly the same: A ragtag group of very smart non-conformists, deprived of anything most of us would recognize as a normal family, have banded together to build their own idiosyncratic version of family. All of which is accompanied by rapid-fire quips, conversations filled with obscure pop culture references, and the kind of “us against them” sardonic humor that would be instantly recognizable to any middle school kid who has ever gotten beaten up before lunch.
Come to think of it, I think I’ve just described half the TV shows out there.
Ooh, I’d fly to NY for that dinner party! Just sayin’… 🙂
Ah, another glittering mind around the dinner table. Lucky me!
🙂 🙂 🙂