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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!

Love is like breathing. You have to take some in and let it out to live.

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Overgeneralize much? I am a Trump supporter and I like the show! It doesn't bother me about the stereotypes because they are handled well and they're funny. The only problem that I've had with the show so far is that I feel like so much is been pushed out at the very beginning.. Many of the situations that are being dealt with are being done in really wonderful and insightful ways, but I wish that they would take a little bit more time with them and leave room for a little bit more character development as we go along. That's my only complaint. And it's not a very big one. I also have a problem with people using the term PC in there comments. Not exactly sure what they're talking about. So while I agree with many of the things you said, let's not go bashing specific groups of people.

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"I also have a problem with people using the term PC in there comments. Not exactly sure what they're talking about."

With good reason - THEY don't know what they're talking about either. The people making these dumb comments about the show being PC simply don't like TV that deals with non-white people or women who aren't submissive. They've made that very clear.

Anyway, I'm glad you like the show - I do too. More character development would be good, I concur, but that's challenging with the sitcom format.

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THANK YOU. I am reading your response and your responses to other threads and they are so spot on. The complaint of PC is hilarious to me because I don't think they are using it the way they think they are using it. I am a 3rd Generation Mexican-American and even though this show is centered on a Cuban-American family it resonated with me on so many levels. From the way the show centered around mental health and how difficult it is to discuss the issues of therapy and medication in a Latinx household to when Lydia cried to Penelope to not put her in a home. I absolutely loved this show and am so happy to see a show that I could finally relate to, but that also explored the world of the Cuban experience.

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