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| "About a Boy" breaks suspension of disbelief and jumps the shark by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 04/29/2014, 7:32pm PDT | ||||
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| NBC teleivision's About A Boy is a TV show, if I understand it, about a really precocious little kid.
Well, his father is working in Antarctica and a friend or neighbor of theirs is, for some reason acting as a "Big Brother" to the kid, trying to teach him how to hit a baseball. That's when we get news from the kid's mother, and presumably the wife of his father. I don't know, maybe they're divorced, I'm not sure. Because she's telling this guy how she doesn't want to be alone with the kid's father because she'll have the hots for him. Well, duh, that's probably a good reason why you had a kid with him in the first place. (Even if they're not married I'm figuring they can't be boyfriend and girlfriend because they seemed to be not very interested in each other. No real signs of affection, which was strange. A bit later they did show some.) Well, the first thing that was odd was, this guy has been in Antarctica studying penguins for six months, and comes home. Well, you're coming home to your family after six months, what are the two things you probably most want to do? (1) See your son again; (2) Bang your wife or girlfriend (whichever she was), and not necessarily in that order. What I'm wondering about is why he can't go home, he has to bunk on the couch of the neighbor guy instead of staying where his kid is. So maybe they are divorced or are estranged or whatever it is. Well, the first red flag was he's stripping nude to sleep on the couch, and is standing there with his pants and underpants pulled down to his ankles. Okay, his wife/ex-wife/girlfriend/mother of his child sees him, which I can understand. But the neighbor guy was fixing the couch for him - a second red flag, he can't get a sheet and pillows out of a linen closet himself? - then stands up and turns around to see the guy naked, and of course is shocked, and the naked guy is explaining he sleeps the way penguins do. Come on! Even if you don't have nudity taboos - I don't, I lost mine maybe 20 years ago when I started taking Phen-Fen for weight control - you know other people do, and either you'd take off your clothes and maybe put on a robe out of courtesy, or you'd wait until he wasn't around and then undress, because most people have them. You wouldn't advertise your nakedness by standing around with your pants around your ankles and your dick hanging out like some guy getting a blow job in an alley. I know one time back around 1995 when I was upstairs in my room, I got called downstairs to change a light bulb, so I went into the closet, grabbed a light bulb and went downstairs to change it, then went back upstairs. My entire wardrobe consisted of a pair of socks, so I can understand going around naked. But when it isn't in a close family situation, common courtesy says you put something on because being naked bothers other people. When it's comfortable in my room I'll often sleep naked, and sometimes if I want a snack at 3 in the morning, I'd get in my wheelchair with nothing on at all because I'm the only person who is on the first floor, and it's extremely unlikely someone else will come out to the kitchen then. But if I'm going out there when other people will be present I'll throw a Snuggie or a blanket on to cover myself. Many times I've been reading and replying to messages here where I was wearing nothing. Right now I am fully clothed because the landlord opened the window to the outside to vent the place, I can't get it to close - my hands don't have enough strength - and it's making the room too cold. So going back to the show, the guy from Antarctica needs to sleep on the couch because of his sciatica and it's the stiffest place to sleep. I know that's a back problem and a too soft mattress will exacerbate back problems. But what got me was, middle of the night, for some reason, he decides to go upstairs and crawl into the bed of the other guy. They lost it at this point. They blew the suspension of disbelief and essentially "jumped the shark." A heterosexual man - especially one that is naked - does not get into the bed of another heterosexual man under non-emergency conditions. No way, no how, not a chance. If they made it look like he was half asleep and thought it was his woman, I could buy that. If it was an emergency situation like there was no place else to sleep (like John Candy and Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles) I might buy it but neither one of them is going to sleep naked. But not when he has a place he could sleep otherwise. The whole episode was ridiculous, and this final point was just too over the top to be believable. And this was only the first 20 minutes of the program. |
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"About a Boy" breaks suspension of disbelief and jumps the shark by 04/29/2014, 7:32pm PDT  I haven't seen this but Will Sasso by 05/04/2014, 1:34pm PDT He sure does! yuck yuck NT by 05/04/2014, 2:16pm PDT Like I said he deserves by 05/05/2014, 7:27am PDT |
