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https://xcancel.com/FoxNews/status/2066191563340788039#m
Rainn Wilson says "The Office" probably wouldn’t be made today, telling Fox News Digital that media trends have shifted left and that cancel culture makes it difficult for edgy comedies to thrive.
I've never watched the office but the most vanilla fucking normie ass people I've ever met love the show so I don't assume there's anything pushing the envelope in that show.
Nothing close to what's in, let's say, The Boys, a very modern television show.
They still make It's Always Sunny lmao
these people think IASIP is woke now
I'm almost finished watching it, it's crazy that some American rightists liked it. It's not even being subtle, it's straight up "CONSERVATIVES BAD AMARITE FELLAS" all the way. I get why some are confused by Disco Elysium but The Boys?? Straight up lib-left propaganda
It's such a hamfisted attempt at "critique" by just dialing the
-meter up to 11 that I couldn't bear watching more than the first 4 episodes. Like I was forcing myself in the hopes of it getting better but then just thought "why am I doing this to myself"
chuds cannot art, they can't make it they can't understand it even when it has all the subtlety of a brick to the face
The closest the office ever got to being "edgy" was Michael Scott being racist/sexist/an ass "but it's ok because he means well"
The show is filled with racism, queerphobia, and other bigotries. The show plays out like boss does something offense, everyone gets riled up, he's still the boss next episode. I doubt it's too deliberate but it feels like they are trying to condition the audience to accept incompetent, bigoted leadership that can't be fired or replaced no matter how awful they are
I strongly disagree, it is more a reflection of reality. I think it is common for people to be like "my boss is like Michael Scott" as a negative aspect. I think it's common that people are sympathetic to his character on TV, but it's clear that nobody would want to deal with him in real life (but there are many of him in real life nonetheless).
I don't really see a big difference between 'reflecting reality' and 'shaping reality'; this is why people do their hair and makeup in front of a mirror.
Michael Scott being the boss on one of the most popular shows on television is relateable but it also normalizes and conditions us to expect behavior like this from bosses and authority figures in our lives. It doesn't matter if people wouldn't like him in their own life, it reinforces capitalist realism in the minds of the uncritical viewers.
Capitalist realism being the pervasive cultural and ideological belief that capitalism is the only viable economic and political system, making it impossible to even imagine a functional alternative. It suggests this notion is so deeply ingrained that people readily accept the system's flaws as natural facts of life and Michael Scott is the poster boy for abusive, incompetent bosses that you have to accept as an immutable fact of life.
They would have an episode where they put Michael Scott through a fucking struggle session before I turn the TV back on.
It's not a terrible show, the first few seasons have some funny moments mostly thanks to Steve Carell but the formula gets old fairly quickly as it usually does with these kinds of shows. It's definitely highly overrated.