http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/09/26/premiere-week-2011-abc/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/09/26/premiere-week-2011-abc/comment-page-1/#comment-118390 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:51:31 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=10606#comment-118390 Allison, I couldn’t agree more with your critique of Suburgatory. It’s interesting that it’s showing right before Modern Family. The latter is interesting and appealing to me, because it retains empathy with its often biting sarcasm. As a suburban mom, I watch Modern Family and feel the need to laugh at myself and see attention drawn to the everyday absurdities of my life. With Suburgatory I not only don’t recognize myself in these caricatures, I don’t want to spend any time with them–even to mock them. No matter how cute Tessa is 🙂

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