TMC
06-23-2015, 01:01 AM
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/21/its_not_tv_its_hb_bro_welcome_to_the_quasi_hellscape_of_hbos_brooding_bumbling_baller_summer/
With The Brink, Ballers (http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/ballers-shows-us-how-boring-and-lethal-the-nfl-really-1713081531) and True Detective, “this is a summer of man-feels,” says Sonia Soraiya. “At best, the shows use their male characters’ obsession with mothers and whores and paternity and providing for their families in a way that makes an attempt to analyze the basic contradictions of masculinity as a social construct. At worst, the man-feels are simple, unvarnished pandering to male audiences—at the expense of not just the show’s female characters, but in a larger sense, women, in general.”
With The Brink, Ballers (http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/ballers-shows-us-how-boring-and-lethal-the-nfl-really-1713081531) and True Detective, “this is a summer of man-feels,” says Sonia Soraiya. “At best, the shows use their male characters’ obsession with mothers and whores and paternity and providing for their families in a way that makes an attempt to analyze the basic contradictions of masculinity as a social construct. At worst, the man-feels are simple, unvarnished pandering to male audiences—at the expense of not just the show’s female characters, but in a larger sense, women, in general.”