I’ve been recording this show, but have yet to watch many episodez. The one episode i did watch (“Better Days”), however, got me a bit worried about the show’s goals and overall content — and the message they might be trying to send TV-addicted America.
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Episode rehash: “Grace is caught by Jack smoking pot again. Angered at the risk she takes and the negative influence his mother is having on his impressionable younger brother, Jack gives her an ultimatum. Still, Grace smokes again to relieve the tension of the day. She is caught again.” (http://familyscreenscene.allinfoabout.com/tv/jack_and_bobby.html)
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In this episode Jack catches his mom, Grace, smoking grass. Somehow, this is framed as being some flaw-of-values in Grace.
Seriously, why not write the script around non-alcoholic Grace being found, yet again after work, sipping a glass of Merlot in her study. After all, anyone with an ounce of experience (or grass) knows full well just how damaging an alcohol-high is compared to a grass-high. Sit anyone down with a jug of wine and another with an ounce of grass; Make both drink/smoke each in total. Who can still walk and talk coherently afterwards? Facts matter, even in tv. I found the episode a little too mis-informed and rife of FarRight fascism at work.
All i could think of was the actor that played Grace being in “Running On Empty” how that character would totally have toked up in front of her kids — and they wouldn’t have threatened her. But, alas, that production was created in a more civilised, elightned era than our own.
I’ve been recording this show, but have yet to watch many episodez. The one episode i did watch (“Better Days”), however, got me a bit worried about the show’s goals and overall content — and the message they might be trying to send TV-addicted America.
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Episode rehash: “Grace is caught by Jack smoking pot again. Angered at the risk she takes and the negative influence his mother is having on his impressionable younger brother, Jack gives her an ultimatum. Still, Grace smokes again to relieve the tension of the day. She is caught again.” (http://familyscreenscene.allinfoabout.com/tv/jack_and_bobby.html)
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In this episode Jack catches his mom, Grace, smoking grass. Somehow, this is framed as being some flaw-of-values in Grace.
Seriously, why not write the script around non-alcoholic Grace being found, yet again after work, sipping a glass of Merlot in her study. After all, anyone with an ounce of experience (or grass) knows full well just how damaging an alcohol-high is compared to a grass-high. Sit anyone down with a jug of wine and another with an ounce of grass; Make both drink/smoke each in total. Who can still walk and talk coherently afterwards? Facts matter, even in tv. I found the episode a little too mis-informed and rife of FarRight fascism at work.
All i could think of was the actor that played Grace being in “Running On Empty” how that character would totally have toked up in front of her kids — and they wouldn’t have threatened her. But, alas, that production was created in a more civilised, elightned era than our own.
rob@egoz.org
as much as i love christine lahti, i can’t resist the melodramatic magnetism that is desperate housewives. i wish they were on at different times!