NetFlix! You should be ashamed! After such intelligent comedies like "Grace and Frankie," you give us this? I mean the only reason I realized there wasn't a 1970s laugh track was the cheering when Rita Manero walked on stage—who was shockingly disappointing.
The show was all cheap jokes and throwaway lines and corny. Justina Machado as the mother was appallingly bad, and her character was even worse. Bonnie Franklin must be rolling in her grave. The original role was about a woman showing she could do anything she set her mind to and how women did not need to be defined by men. Ms Machado's character is...I don't even know what. Ill-defined at best. Cheesy. A stereotype.
Ironic that the role of Franklin/Ann Romano was taken on by the daughter on the show, Isabella Gomez. In the opening episode, she is being pressured into a quinceañero, a celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday. She doesn't want to do it because she considers it misogynistic and reduces women to the role of chattel.
And Mom doesn't like it! Doesn't like *everything* the original show stood for! And then I was stunned to find out that it was Norman Lear who rebooted this fiasco. The original show was about important biting issues and the changing roles of women in society. This? It certainly isn't saying anything important about the Latino community. I was appalled. Everything that was powerful and ground breaking about the original show has been turned into a farce bordering on racism.
For shame NetFlix! For shame Mr. Lear. For shame everyone involved!
The show was all cheap jokes and throwaway lines and corny. Justina Machado as the mother was appallingly bad, and her character was even worse. Bonnie Franklin must be rolling in her grave. The original role was about a woman showing she could do anything she set her mind to and how women did not need to be defined by men. Ms Machado's character is...I don't even know what. Ill-defined at best. Cheesy. A stereotype.
Ironic that the role of Franklin/Ann Romano was taken on by the daughter on the show, Isabella Gomez. In the opening episode, she is being pressured into a quinceañero, a celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday. She doesn't want to do it because she considers it misogynistic and reduces women to the role of chattel.
And Mom doesn't like it! Doesn't like *everything* the original show stood for! And then I was stunned to find out that it was Norman Lear who rebooted this fiasco. The original show was about important biting issues and the changing roles of women in society. This? It certainly isn't saying anything important about the Latino community. I was appalled. Everything that was powerful and ground breaking about the original show has been turned into a farce bordering on racism.
For shame NetFlix! For shame Mr. Lear. For shame everyone involved!