TMC
05-10-2023, 01:26 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2023/05/09/the-ten-best-ellen-episodes-of-season-four/
Season Four is Ellen’s big year — the year that its star and her network negotiated a plan for her to come out as gay through her character on a sitcom, creating an iconic moment in TV history that would influence the medium forever after. The season both benefits from and is hindered by this choice. But it starts, as everything with Ellen, from a desire to finally sort through the show’s chronic identity issues. Although the previous year had been the series’ best creatively, its numbers fell and it was clearly never going to climb out of mediocrity into reliable greatness.
Season Four is Ellen’s big year — the year that its star and her network negotiated a plan for her to come out as gay through her character on a sitcom, creating an iconic moment in TV history that would influence the medium forever after. The season both benefits from and is hindered by this choice. But it starts, as everything with Ellen, from a desire to finally sort through the show’s chronic identity issues. Although the previous year had been the series’ best creatively, its numbers fell and it was clearly never going to climb out of mediocrity into reliable greatness.