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Old 04-18-2010, 03:45 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Phat Endy View Post
Well there you go. I guess the first episode had me completely fooled. All I saw was a bunch of rich white dudes treating female subordinates and spouses like crap and assumed that's the way the whole show would go.
Oh, that continues as a major trend. Racist, misogynistic, homophobic...the leading males tend to be all those things. But it doesn't mean the show looks fondly upon it. The writers clearly want us to see how ugly these people (and the culture that produced them) are, with their actions deeply hurting the most likable characters and tearing their own lives apart.
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