Comments on: AnTENNA, UnREAL: Anti-Heroes, Genre and Legitimation http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/08/17/antenna-unreal-anti-heroes-genre-and-legitimation/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Jason Mittell http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/08/17/antenna-unreal-anti-heroes-genre-and-legitimation/comment-page-1/#comment-442848 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:48:18 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=27856#comment-442848 Colin – to be clear, the producers were the ones who evoked BREAKING BAD, rather than critics (at least at first), and they make the claim that they are explicitly drawing inspiration from that series. Personally, I think UnREAL has more in common with BREAKING BAD than with SEX & THE CITY, but I have also argued that BB is a serial melodrama (and wouldn’t claim that SATC is), so my framework for the comparison is on different terms than what I think you’re getting at here.

Hope you enjoy the series!

]]> By: R. Colin Tait http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/08/17/antenna-unreal-anti-heroes-genre-and-legitimation/comment-page-1/#comment-442841 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 02:40:52 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=27856#comment-442841 I haven’t seen the show yet, but have been following the debate, both here and in the press. I think you have raised some great points throughout in the discussion. To me, the move to consider this show (and its antiheroic protagonist) along the lines of Breaking Bad and other (male) Quality TV shows reminds me of the near-erasure of Sex in the City from the popular “Quality” canon. Emily Nussbaum raises a spirited defense in her piece “Difficult Women” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/difficult-women, where she argues that Carrie Bradshaw was tv’s first female antihero. It just seems odd to me that the immediate move for critics is to look far afield instead of the genres that unReal is obviously drawing from.

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