The Neighborhood - A Review

Just finished watching The Neighborhood starring Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield, although my fav's are the supporting cast, including Cedric's two sons, his wife, and Max's son. Max and Cederic are the weakest links...which is not a bad thing.

I laughed my ass off watching this. Which is RARE. Most sitcoms barely get a smile and often an eyeroll. (I hated Everybody Loves Raymond, could not watch it. The Jamie Fox Show gave me hives. Despised Two and a Half Men. And Big Bang is hit or miss. Also Modern Family, The Office, Parks & Recreation annoyed me. How I Met Your Mother -- was only good when Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan were doing their thing, otherwise I was irritiated. I hated Ted.)

But this was funny.

It makes fun of "racism" and it points out how the problem is much deeper and more ingrained than expected.

I've never cared whether people were black white yellow or purple. Actually no one is purple. Which is a shame...because I love purple. So if you find anyone who is actually purple -- please send them my way, I'd definitely go for them. Nor do I care if you are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Wiccan, Shaman, Hindu, or Scientologist (no wait, I care about that. Scientology is a cult. Go away.)
I also do not care if you are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Aesexual, Transgender, etc...Or if you are fat, skinny, big nosed, tall, short, etc... and I've never understand why anyone else did. I'm admittedly only sexually attracted to men who are my size and taller, and happen to be bigger than I am. Which is a bit of a problem since I'm 6 foot and over 200 pounds and 75% of the people I've met are much shorter. Also you can't be married. I find out you are married or in a relationship -- I lose interest like that! I hate competition. I won't fight for a man -- a) they aren't worth the trouble, b) why bother? This explains why I'm still single.

People are tribal idiots. I like dreamwidth because I can interact with folks without all that garbage. We're just us. All the rest, gender, etc is stripped away. I loved fanboards for the same reasons. People went by pseudonymes, in most cases you had no idea what their gender, race, age, etc was and it DID NOT MATTER.

What I love about this series is it makes fun of the tribalism, of the privelege or the racism.

Butler: My father has issues with white people. But he's not racist. We can't be racist. We are "racial" but not racist. You are "racist".
Max: No, we're not.

Cedric: There's two types of white racism. One: The sort that is overly nice to you. Who wants to be your friend to demonstrate that they aren't racist. And Two: the sort that is openly racist. Both are racist.
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Neighborhood: A

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Well...in case you are interested in how Whedon ended the Buffyverse in the comicsverse...here's a recap from a comics lover.

Buffy Comics S12 - Finale

It's sort of silly. Everyone is happy. All the characters are together. All is honky dory. They get rid of the demons. Change the future. It's no longer dystopian. All the slayers have their powers back.

Granted the recap is sort of like hearing a recap from well, Andrew.

And Whedon? Really? Did you just phone this in?

Anyhow..I'm glad I stopped at S11. S12 looks sort of pathetic.

And oh...this is just hilarious... 12 Casting Decisions That Hurt and Saved Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- for one thing it's actually 24. 12 each, I guess. AND...some of the selections surprised me.

The writer of this really did not like Nick Brendan, David Boreanze, Marc Blucas, and Michelle Trachenberg in their roles.

I disagree a bit. I think a lot of it was the writing. Dawn was written as whiny. I thought MT did a good job with it. I can't see anyone else doing better. DB was written as wooden and mysterious..he shines as Angelus. Nick Brendan...well, he had personal issues in S6 and S7 that took their toll, but his performance in Hell's Bells worked for me. Also, they left Giles off the list. And seriously, Andrew and DB Woodside saved it?
Not for everyone folks. I was not the only fan who found both characters grating and difficult to watch and wished for more interactions between the principal characters in the finale season. I'd have preferred LTMP to be between Giles and Spike, or Spike and Xander or even have a tough scene between Spike and Willow. It would also have been far less offensive.

And Andrew should have stayed gone per S6.

But mileage varies. I was amused anyhow.