It may be time to admit that my concern about Gill Murray is overshadowing my ability to be thoughtful about this show. :P Note: behind the cut are some predictions for the future of this season, based on minor casting spoilers that I also discuss.
( ep 4x05 )
I asked![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sophiagratia, somewhat in jest, why we watch this show, and she responded so eloquently that I have to put it here for future reference.
we watch this show because it has never once backed down from its very basic premise which is that you can make beautiful, intelligent television in traditionally masculine genres and center it entirely on the lives of women, their relationships to each other and to their work, and make it real, and vivid, and succeed. you can make beautiful television by taking an unapologetic stance on abuse and its consequences. you can make beautiful television by showing how important survival relationships are, and how hard-won, and how fragile. we watch this show because it doesn’t let go of these women no matter how damaged they get, because it shows how it is possible to watch someone suffer and never stop taking her side.
So, yeah. Us and Gill against the world, eh?
( ep 4x05 )
I asked
sophiagratia, somewhat in jest, why we watch this show, and she responded so eloquently that I have to put it here for future reference.we watch this show because it has never once backed down from its very basic premise which is that you can make beautiful, intelligent television in traditionally masculine genres and center it entirely on the lives of women, their relationships to each other and to their work, and make it real, and vivid, and succeed. you can make beautiful television by taking an unapologetic stance on abuse and its consequences. you can make beautiful television by showing how important survival relationships are, and how hard-won, and how fragile. we watch this show because it doesn’t let go of these women no matter how damaged they get, because it shows how it is possible to watch someone suffer and never stop taking her side.
So, yeah. Us and Gill against the world, eh?
