Stories are really powerful things. Nowadays it is tik tok and youtube stories pushing these narratives, but before that it was tv series and news narratives (well, that one is still a thing) giving us ideas on how to be and what to think. Lately I’ve been absorbing the Parenthood series (Lauren Graham playing not Lorelei). There is a lot to be said about the shoe and how it stereotypes and creates ideas of this and that, but I really want to focus the Aspergers character, Max. I call him that because that is his central identity in the show. He has Aspergers. It becomes who he is to everyone else and how his immediate family handles it is a hot mess. I’m not mad at that part. Being a hot mess is a character thing. What I dislike is that they treat it like this is how everyone should treat people of this nature and this ought to be seen as the way and okay.
It isn’t okay.
Max is an ass and is treated like he needs to be babied and that babying is reinforced throughout the show time and again. Four season in and the kid doesn’t grow as character. It’s not right or okay. Yet they did it anyway.
Some Thoughts:
- Kinda stoked for Madden.
- Less stoked for the summer to end.