2 Broke Girls
The show had almost 11 million viewers on Monday, Oct. 31. The ratings are strong, but some other bloggers/reviewers have complaints.
One of the biggest complaints is the racist overtones. I can agree. The diner owner, Han Lee, is the typical stereotype of an Asian. He is a Karaoke-loving, nerdy and naïve Asian man. The writers need to consider getting rid of the character or stop using such offensive stereotypes for the man as well as other characters.
My favorite development has been the introduction of a possible romance between Max and the sexy, smart bartender. Johnny works at a neighborhood bar and he frequents the diner. Last week, he came to the girl’s apartment to help Caroline build a Murphy bed, but Max ends up hanging out with him outside. In this week’s episode, Johnny tries to hook Caroline up with his friend from college without much luck.
The girls approached a popular coffee shop with a proposal to sell cupcakes, but the owner told the girls that the cupcakes were not pretty enough. Caroline signs them up to go to a cupcake decorating class taught by two stereotypical Italian girls. Max struggles to make pretty cupcakes and becomes obsessed with making a flower on a cupcake. She goes back to the class with a flower cupcake that took her three hours to make, but she ends up smashing it in front of the two Italian girls. Max’s dislike for the two girls is apparent when she gives them two cupcakes with insults on them. Two homosexual men in the class with Max and Caroline love the idea of insult cupcakes for their wedding shower and hire the girls to make their cupcakes.
Jennifer Coolidge, best known for her role as the MILF in American Pie, will be joining the cast of “Girls”. She will play Sophie, who moves into the girls’ apartment building in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Rumor has it that the role was written specifically for Coolidge.
Tribune Company
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey rejected the Tribune Company’s bankruptcy plan and a competing reorganization proposal on Monday. The Tribune Company plans to revise the plan and it feels positive the government will approve.
The Tribune Company owns some of the top newspapers in the country. It would be a shame for something to happen to the publications. People don’t understand the value of professional journalism anymore. Many people rely on news acquired from blogs and citizen journalism. The people writing these “news” stories unfortunately are not trained. They don’t know much about journalism ethics or the process of news gathering. The blogs tend to be extremely biased and sometimes untrue.
I like this show but I still feel it has more potential to live up to. I think Max and Caroline need more chemistry. It feels to me sometimes the actors are simply reading lines written for them. I also agree with you on the topic.of journalism. Any person in this world with a camera phone and the ability to write a sentence is viewed as a journalist. I read in Broadcasting and Cable that some television stations are investing back into investigative journalism. It is expensive and takes longer to get a story,but viewers are asking for more. This is also helped by extended newscasts due to Oprah's departure. Let's hope this becomes a trend others are looking to copy.
ReplyDeleteI hope that investigative journalism makes a big comeback. Society could use a few more watchdogs.
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