therightfangirl | First post, be gentle. (Reply)

The userinfo said we are allowed to post hairbrained things that Hollywood liberals say, so here goes.

I love Everwood. Love. Also usually admire the way-left-wing creator of the show, Greg Berlanti, who is sometimes credited with previously running Dawson's Creek into the ground post-S3, but Everwood is a wonderful, Emmy-award-winning/nominated show. Or it was, until he left it this season, put someone else in charge, and started investing all his time and energy into the IMHO consistently unwatchable Jack and Bobby, whose lead character is the most unpleasant liberal on television right now. The premise of the show, which was supposed to be controversial but ended up just being convoluted, was about a future President of the USA who turned out to be (as I am) conservative/libertarian, and the show details his past being raised by a socialist mother and a Republican surrogate father figure in flashbacks, with voiceovers from the future.

The show kept trying to show the socialist (and drug using, verbally abusive, philandering) mother in a positive light - she is for some reason supposed to be the protagonist of the present-day story - and thought they were being even-handed by showing the Republican in a sympathetic light too. Unfortunately this backfired and the Republican character was the more likeable of the two while the socialist character came off as absolutely repellant, and now most television critics credit her with the demise of the show and its slumpy ratings despite the network's repeated attempts to make her more likeable. Gotta love irony!!!

Anyway, Greg Berlanti is very bitter and confused about why millions aren't lavishing adoration on the show with the screaming harpie socialist as the lead, and to no one's surprise, Jack and Bobby got itself canned after just one season. So he actually just told E!Online:

"You're so sweet to be holding vigil. It's like day 14 of Terry Schiavo, and you're not giving up. No decision has been made yet, and we haven't been told. But as the clock ticks, I can tell you, it doesn't look good. The network has been so supportive. I think everyone's sort of scratching their heads as to why it's not doing better than it's doing, and everyone loves it and acknowledges that the acting is superb and there are great stories, but it may very well be our fate to join the ranks of My So-Called Life and Freaks and Geeks."

Yes, Greg, your awful show getting canceled is just like the Terry Schiavo situation. *faceplant*