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04-12-2017, 07:57 PM
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2017/04/12/abc-comedy-presents-awful-feminist-play-featuring-cross
By Lindsay Kornick | April 12, 2017 | 5:05 PM EDT
ABC’s Imaginary Mary (http://forums.previously.tv/forum/2537-imaginary-mary/) is…well, you can just judge by the title and the concept of a grown woman with a cartoon imaginary friend how dumb it is. The show is about Alice (Jenna Elfman) trying to adapt to a relationship with a man, Ben (Stephen Schneider), who has kids. What has so far been a lame late-season blended family sitcom sunk even further with one of everyone’s least favorite modern subjects: feminism. This time, it’s in the form of a student-written high-school play which, so far, has never in history made anything better.
In the April 11 episode “The Parent-y Trap,” the school puts on the musical Grease, which teenage feminist Dora (Matreya Scarrwener) calls, "A classic tale of misogyny and female degradation." Since that unoriginal train of third-wave feminism thought isn’t enough for the show, Dora decides to put on her own version of the story to rival the school’s - starring her 16-year-old brother Andy (Nicholas Coombe), who didn't get a part in the school's production, as her "post-feminist hero, John Newton Olivia." The result should basically get Dora ready for a gender studies university art show.
By Lindsay Kornick | April 12, 2017 | 5:05 PM EDT
ABC’s Imaginary Mary (http://forums.previously.tv/forum/2537-imaginary-mary/) is…well, you can just judge by the title and the concept of a grown woman with a cartoon imaginary friend how dumb it is. The show is about Alice (Jenna Elfman) trying to adapt to a relationship with a man, Ben (Stephen Schneider), who has kids. What has so far been a lame late-season blended family sitcom sunk even further with one of everyone’s least favorite modern subjects: feminism. This time, it’s in the form of a student-written high-school play which, so far, has never in history made anything better.
In the April 11 episode “The Parent-y Trap,” the school puts on the musical Grease, which teenage feminist Dora (Matreya Scarrwener) calls, "A classic tale of misogyny and female degradation." Since that unoriginal train of third-wave feminism thought isn’t enough for the show, Dora decides to put on her own version of the story to rival the school’s - starring her 16-year-old brother Andy (Nicholas Coombe), who didn't get a part in the school's production, as her "post-feminist hero, John Newton Olivia." The result should basically get Dora ready for a gender studies university art show.