He just came off as sort of a cartoon version of what the show's writers might perceive as a downtown NY artist. Oversize photos of breasts and genitalia? Like Robert Mapplethorpe didn't do that stuff thirty years ago? Even his haughtiness and inability to connect with Helen or the boyfriend in the slightest seemed forced. Weakest character-writing I've seen on the show yet.
shareI tell you what, I sure laughed hard when they cut to the taxi ride home, and yet again, Helen has a p*ssy between herself and her man. She just can't catch a break.
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Yeah, that image was funny. I just hope they don't jump the shark with cartoons like that guy again.
shareEnh, I thought he was on the edge of believable, and short of that he was very entertaining. And he wasn't that important--imagine seeing your self-absorbed, impulsive daughter with a man like that, barefoot in his kitchen, wearing a backless dress.
There are a lot of powerful, self-absorbed, *beep* men in art and entertainment just like that who reap the benefits by being able to stalk and spit out lots of beautiful young women. They get away with it and it's part of the allure of their persona.
Disclosure: I live in New York and catch a whiff of these people.
It's not all "cartoonish".
Enh, I thought he was on the edge of believable, and short of that he was very entertaining. And he wasn't that important--imagine seeing your self-absorbed, impulsive daughter with a man like that, barefoot in his kitchen, wearing a backless dress.
In a sense, she is better off not fighting her on it. Some lessons you can only learn on your own....and it was pretty obvious what kind of person Fur Kat was, and that his dalliances do not end well for his "assistants." A hard lesson, but this is the only way to learn it.
Besides, you know how it goes.....object too strenuously, and she'll wind up marrying him.
I know it. A parent who has to bite her tongue so as not to alienate her offspring. It's hard but it probably is the best way to handle a Furkat.
shareI'm with @homerj2us. If you lived in New York City (which I do), you would run into more than one person exactly like "Furkat." I can see why people might think that's not possible, but it is.
shareDarn straight. I live in Manhattan and off the top of my head, I can think of three people I know who are FurKat-like. The thing is--- they are all very nice. Basically, if you give these folks enough respect and adulation, they will do anything for you. That's not a bad thing.
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Remember this is Helen's point of view.... I wonder if they'll show another's point of view who attended that dinner and you may have a different version of what that artist was actually like and maybe that his photos were more subtle than she remembers...
shareThe French woman professor was kind of a caricature as well...
shareI think Whitney is the worst offender if we're talking about caricature characters. She's just so over the top with no middle. I can't stand when she's on the screen.
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haha, might be true (re: Whitney), but I love her.
I guess we have a difference of opinion on this one.
I do agree with this opinion, and I think there's a lot of this going on in the show. Many of the characters are over the top and the actors really work it. It's possible that the actors put their own twist into the writers word, don't forget. The bottom line of it all comes down to the director to either rein people in or ask them to be bigger. If you can suspend disbelief in the caricatures and some of the story line, it can be hugely entertaining.
shareFurkat and Juliette (the French professor) were both a bit caricature-ish, but keep in mind they were from the perspectives of characters likely to see them in somewhat exaggerated light.
shareI don't think the show warps characters perspectives according to whom they encounter in the scenes; I think characters are simply presented, and what the tv audience sees is what it gets (notwithstanding little plot twists like who killed Scotty at the end of season two).
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