If they made It's a Wonderful Life now, George Bailey would be shown using a chainsaw on a prostitute. This has to stop.
@MKupperman Despair is the heart of the genre of the Christmas special, as I argue here: https://storify.com/JeetHeer1/it-s-the-existential-dread-of-christmas-charlie-br …
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@HeerJeet It's mostly awful. I did show my boy the Mex Santa this year because it's as good a distillation of that character as anything...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet …but most of the christmas specials are awful, let's face it, and I'm not sure I feel the need to burden him with Peanuts.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet but now- you didn't address this i think- there's the modern cable tv "christmas movie" aimed, I think, at disturbed older peopleThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet they show reality as awful, one, note shit and christmas as family, togetherness one-note shit. a dozen new ones every year -
@MKupperman I can't watch those things. They're just awful. Awful.
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