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Jul. 17th, 2013 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficI am continuing to watch Life for no justifiable reason. In season two, the get rid of the strong female lieutenant, played by Robin Weigert, who played Calamity Jane on Deadwood and is an actress of the first order. Her character on Life was mostly an antagonist, but nuanced, and not stereotypically feminine in any way. She was a pleasure to watch.
They replaced her with an unapologetically sexist asshole whose entire characterization seems to be comparing women to venereal disease and going "hubba hubba" at Sarah Shahi. And because he gets humanizing moments from time to time we're supposed to be sympathetic to him, and see him as a potential love interest, despite the continuous harassment of her in her place of work. Cause it's a man's world.
I can think of no possible reason why this change was mind, or what the hell they were thinking with the "new direction." I thought this show couldn't get more sexist. I was wrong. Oh, and did I mention the appearance in a few episodes of Christina Hendricks, as the woman marrying the main character's father, who exists, seemingly to be an unavoidable object of womanhood who casts her spell over all men in her vicinity. Oh! And that the main character asks his ex-wife's husband for permission to sleep with her? You know, instead of asking her? Yeah. (And yet, still not as sexist as The Mentalist.)
They replaced her with an unapologetically sexist asshole whose entire characterization seems to be comparing women to venereal disease and going "hubba hubba" at Sarah Shahi. And because he gets humanizing moments from time to time we're supposed to be sympathetic to him, and see him as a potential love interest, despite the continuous harassment of her in her place of work. Cause it's a man's world.
I can think of no possible reason why this change was mind, or what the hell they were thinking with the "new direction." I thought this show couldn't get more sexist. I was wrong. Oh, and did I mention the appearance in a few episodes of Christina Hendricks, as the woman marrying the main character's father, who exists, seemingly to be an unavoidable object of womanhood who casts her spell over all men in her vicinity. Oh! And that the main character asks his ex-wife's husband for permission to sleep with her? You know, instead of asking her? Yeah. (And yet, still not as sexist as The Mentalist.)