Brian Damage
02-18-2012, 10:06 AM
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/02/09/146626983/the-incredible-shrinking-liz-lemon-from-woman-to-little-girl
Ever since 30 Rock returned in January, there has been backlash from critics — most of it directed squarely at Liz Lemon. In a piece called “The Incredible Shrinking Liz Lemon: From Woman to Little Girl,” over on NPR, Linda Holmes writes, “Over the course of six seasons, Jack has been fully transformed into a condescending, all-knowing daddy, and Liz has been fully transformed into a needy little girl who is eternally terrified of displeasing him.” As she sees it, the relationship with Jack is out of balance, and a character who was “once frazzled but smart, harried but competent, capable of wrangling a bunch of crazy people and then slumping at the end of the day, exhausted but minimally victorious” is now, in Holmes’ opinion at least, “dumb.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/02/09/146626983/the-incredible-shrinking-liz-lemon-from-woman-to-little-girl
Ever since 30 Rock returned in January, there has been backlash from critics — most of it directed squarely at Liz Lemon. In a piece called “The Incredible Shrinking Liz Lemon: From Woman to Little Girl,” over on NPR, Linda Holmes writes, “Over the course of six seasons, Jack has been fully transformed into a condescending, all-knowing daddy, and Liz has been fully transformed into a needy little girl who is eternally terrified of displeasing him.” As she sees it, the relationship with Jack is out of balance, and a character who was “once frazzled but smart, harried but competent, capable of wrangling a bunch of crazy people and then slumping at the end of the day, exhausted but minimally victorious” is now, in Holmes’ opinion at least, “dumb.”