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InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

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mrfart posted:

Especially the family/bipolar stuff.

Carrie's kid serves no purpose and really bogs down the show.

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InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

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Origami Dali posted:

the key to it's success is when carrie is on the job with her squad, doing bourne poo poo and uncovering conspiracies.

"Wait a second, you mean people aren't interested in daycare pick-up and drop-off subplots?"

-ShowTime writer's room

InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

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Vernacular posted:

The bipolar storyline must be a tough element for the writers to work with at this point in the series. You can only oscillate so much between "oh god she's not on her meds" and "oh phew she's got it under control" before it starts to feel hackneyed, which I believe it does now.

If you have any family or friends with BPD though, this can be tragically realistic. It's probably also why marriages involving one spouse with BPD have a 90% divorce rate.

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Mu Zeta posted:

I'm not sure why the writers are trying to make me feel sympathetic toward the president but it's not working.

I think the problem is that the writers haven't figured out the character themselves so it's hard for us to sympathize for her because even though she's been in plenty of scenes she's not fleshed out a whole lot more than say the principal at Franny's school.

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