A VERY worthy re-boot! Spoiler alerts inside.
I like to read the other posts before jumping in and just repeat what others have said. In this thread, I can speak with some authority and intelligence, in contrast to the Hitler Youth Brigade trolls who seem to have been directed here to slander the show, even before they watched it.
In the original series, Norman Lear wanted to make a statement about real life, to take the sitcom format to a new level of relevance to the growing number of TV viewers who were starting to rightly feel alienated by the white-washing of American TV.
Yes, Lear had created many sitcoms already which introduced realistic African American characters, and even exposed the unpleasant underbelly of America with a bigot named Archie Bunker (a man very much like our incoming president). But with One Day At a Time, he wanted to show some of the changes that had taken place since the 60s, for one thing, the reality of single parenthood.
Norman Lear's genius was not a mere social engineering endeavor, as the jackholes calling this new series "PC" would have you believe without critical thought, rather, he was an All-American marketing genius, out to make a buck through good story telling that attracted audiences.
One idiotic comment in this board tried to paint Lear's work as "insulting" to the people he portrayed, as if the writer of that comment spoke for them. On the contrary, the mild critiques offered by minority groups of the 1970s (Lear's heyday) mostly were centered on writing characters that were more inspirational than they were realistic.
Norman Lear wrote about ordinary people and made heroes come from those you'd LEAST expect more often than making grandiose characters who "saved the day".
Whether they like it or not, the Trump voters who are appearing out from under their rocks to criticize this new show as "PC" because it has a Latina ex-soldier with PTSD or because one story thread deals with [spoiler]a teenage girl coming out as a lesbian[spoiler] better just get used to the fact that no "wall" can make all the Latinos, gays, women, Muslims, or true Americans who believe in equality just GO AWAY simply because they voted for a reality TV star who's show and who himself is a total fraud.
I absolutely LOVE Rita Moreno in this role. The gimmick with the curtain will no doubt prove effective, and I love how she's turning tables on Schnieder!
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