Anyone watch "In The Life" on PBS?

I just found out about it last month and I'm watching it for the second time right now. To a "straight" guy who's trying to understand as much as he can, this is really good stuff.

It's a pretty decent show. Now if I'm going to watch gay TV, I usually watch LOGO. It's the gay tv station. Man, if five years ago, someone told me that I'd have a whole cable station just for gay tv shows and movies, I'd have called them crazy.

could've been said about black people 40 years ago. Then came "Julia," then "The Bill Cosby Show" (the first one).

Maybe we'll live long enough to see gay programming on the networks, huh? I mean besides "Will & Grace."

Ginsberg, my loveable boy cat, wrote that subject line for you.

While there isn't much realistic gay programming on network TV, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" did a really good job with Willow. I mean, when Ellen came out, there was a parental warning on it. Willow's lesbian relationship was handled very nicely. So I do think that there will be better gay programming on network TV in the relatively near future.

but I felt kinda weird about it. Sometimes I'd think, "I wonder if this is like how white people laughed at 'Amos and Andy'?"

It fucking rocked, though, when Will kissed Jack in prime time.

Ginsberg types like he belongs at FR. :7

Honestly, I'm a big fan of it. I don't find it offensive at all. It played on some stereotypes, but it didn't do it in a bad way. So I don't think you need to feel weird about it. I've been friends with a few "Jacks" in real life. And the episode where they kissed was a good episode.

All I've heard from gay folk until now is it's... well, to steal my own simile, what "Amos and Andy" was to black people. And I let that influence my thinking about it; I got like, well, I shouldn't watch it because it plays on stereotypes. (Although it was mostly Karen and Grace who made me laugh... well, and when the gay men's choir did that über-cliche collective gasp when Jack outed Matt Damon as "straight." That killed me.)

I wish you guys would fucking finalize the Gay Agenda so I'd know what to do. :7

>>>I wish you guys would fucking finalize the Gay Agenda so I'd know what to do. :>>>>>>

Will:Not funny

Jack: Funny

Grace: Not funny at first; got funnier as the show evolved.

Karen: *Really* funny; so funny she saved the show from an early demise, IMO.

Aside from the truly inspired idea of 'Karen' ( and the pitch-perfect casting of Megan Mullally in the role), the show rarely rises above the level of Amos and Andy-ism.

Straight people's... and many gay people's... idea of what gays must be like.

OK, that's a given. It was pretty funny anyway, but usually in spite of , not because of, the minstrel show aspect.

Consider this section of the agenda finalized.

i found it very amusing.

:D

No Logo. x(

I used to watch it, but the past 4 times I caught it, they'd just show stuff from past episodes. Are they showing new stories now?

seeing Harvey Fierstein on it.