The biggest problem TGP has is Jason, and without going full Jacobin about it it's really clear that the show's POV is not fully comfortable talking about the working class/underclass so all they can do is turn him into a cartoon and play him for laughs
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jswallow3 and
If you really sat down and got serious about the many many obvious reasons Jason was set up to fail and his sentence is therefore unjust, you couldn't have this kind of show anymore It'd bring everyone down really hard
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There are moments where I unexpectedly had more respect for the show in its later seasons that all involved them uncomfortably letting Jason be more than "The Dumbass"
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The big joke sequence of Tahani wantonly cashing out her bank account and doing wacky things with it ending with Jason innocently picking up a single wad of bills all, "Man, the number of times just having this much money would've changed my life"
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Well, because Jason was invented as a source of mean jokes about dirtbags from Florida and making you feel guilty about that is dicey
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Well yeah The show clearly has a very middle class point of view that it wears on its sleeve, hence all the jokes about the extreme pettiness of the various rules that get you damned ("using Facebook as a verb")
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It has a very clearly drawn implied audience member who's invited to point and laugh at Chidi and Tahani for being above them in education and status and Eleanor and Jason for being below them
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Arguably they put that implied audience member in the show as a character, that's who the Judge is Liberal middle aged college educated American woman who watches a lot of prestige TV And she's deeply unlikable
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