Great News (Netflix) - Ouch, close to the bone

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Season 2 episode 1: there’s a trans black person (blonde white woman) on the discussion panel of the new news programme. Later in the episode the anchorman exclaims: “When I was growing up men in dresses were funny, not brave!”

I get the feeling the creators of this show (women) might be not completely on board with the TWAW narrative....

I loved this! Tina Fey has a good cameo role too.

DH and I lolled our way through the first 5 episodes of season 2 last night. I’m pleased it has kept up the same hit rate and eye for the absurd as the first series.

There’s some really sharp commentary on #metoo and payoffs for all the gropey senior broadcasters in the US. It’s great when very funny, talented women get a platform to shine a light on the things that men seen blind to. I can recommend this series wholeheartedly.

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It's a fair comparison between blackface and womanface - people have pointed out the double standards for years, and it is a double standard. Neither is right and should never be acceptable to wear a stereotype as a costume in any seriousness - even in comedy it is frowned upon too, but I can understand the satire in this show.

I found the first two episodes of season one bloody awful so I didn't continue with it. I might give it a second chance. Is Tina Fey part of the production team?

Tina Fey as the executive is fantastic- very funny but pointed arch around sexual harassment

But I LOVE a good stereotype. A lot of comedy is exaggerating for comic effect. The over-involved mother, the culture clashes between old and young, just the general absurdity of life in general. I don't see these as bad things. Also, once the characters bed in, there is fun to be had by playing on their foibles, and you get the extra recognition of them doing their "thing". One of the final lovely moments on Frasier was when, after years and years of neurotically wiping surfaces, Niles whipped out his hankie and mopped up some baby sick.