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Originally Posted by Reaper16
Nope. I've never seen it.
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If you could just quickly watch the 7 seasons and give your opinion.
j/k, so you know it's a drama about a mother daughter team in small town NE. It's conservative in the sense that the mom not only gave birth to her daughter as a teen but, rejected by her old-money parents for her sin [for the effect it had on the Ivy League track they pictured for her, not for religious reasons], strikes out on her own working at an inn and living with her daughter in a closet at said inn.
But the story takes up when the daughter is a teen, they have a home and the mom is the inn's manager [bootstraps]. They are in the process of reconciliation the mother's parents because the daughter is gifted and desires to attend a prestigious private prep school the parents [and her mom] are legacy [though the mom is a disgraced legacy].
OTOH, it's quite liberal in a 'it takes a village' sense, as the town is one big family who meet regularly in the town square to come to consensus on how issues of the day will be addressed collectively. There are no town failures, but a series of town projects that just need a helping hand or a few shifts as bushboy at the local diner. Also, the mother/daughter relationship is all adult and cosmospolitan, with the sex lives on mom and daughter discussed the 'right' way.
What's quirky and unrealistic, yet aspirant and resonant revolves around the 'banter' between mom and daughter, which is Sturges-esque in it's pop and sends viewer to Wikipedia with regularity [see, Miller, Dennis]. Kind of assumes that the two have devoted their entire existence to watching and rewatching every pop culture touchstone ever and reading every important work of literature ever, while they also put in the work to be an inn manager and child prodigy, respectively.
What sparked my interest in your exposure is the juxtaposition of your opinions herein, and your love of discussions of music and literature, which I think you would eat up.
to kind of give a generalized flavor, they'd show someone acting quirky in a particular way, and the mom would roll her eyes at the daughter and say 'who does he think he is Blah diddle blah-blah?' And if you read the cliff notes of the book in which Blah diddle blah-blah was a character, he indeed acted with the same quirks as that character in that situation.
Or the daughter would come home from hijinks at school and whine 'mom I've got a real flippity floop situation going on,' and indeed the hijinks at school mirror the plot of the obscure French novel flippity floop.