I, very often, sing The Blacklist's praises. I love how the show harmoniously blends the elements of a procedural drama with that of a serialized one so well you could barely tell what aspect you are viewing. The actors are wonderful and play their roles fantastically. James Spader steals every scene as Raymond "Red" Reddington and the mythology behind his relationship with Liz and the top criminals of the world make the show unique. However, recently, I have noticed the quality of The Blacklist declining slightly. Fans have made such claims on the articles I read both on this website and a few others. While I agree with those claims on some episodes, I do not believe that this is a trend for the show we have come to know and love. The past …show more content…
- "Alone" by Dark Horses Maggie works on her diorama of the attack on Jasek Financial; Charnquist and Farnsworth plan to kill Beckner as Liz and the FBI work on stopping his attack on the business; Red inspects Fudo and Sakiya's cleaning work. Thoughts and Discussion - With everything that has happened to Tom, Liz and especially baby Agnes, why on Earth would Tom leave Agnes unattended for ONE second let alone the few minutes he did while not only leaving the apartment but the building?! It makes no sense and was insane on Tom's part. - I love Aram's story about his pet rabbit, Dash. Lol - Tom singing and dancing for Agnes was great. - So, I suppose, Farnsworth will get away with whatever he was doing along with Charnquist, although Charnquist did get caught in the end. - Speaking of Charnquist...That was a great shot by Ressler at the end that ended up killing Charnquist through clouded glass, broken glass and from atop another building
The show Black-ish displays political humor and satire by using concepts such as confrontation, and discursive integration. Throughout this paper, I will be explaining how Black-ish displays these concepts, as well as proving that this text can be considered politically humorous and satirical. I will be taking examples from the texts Entertaining the Citizen and the article Let Us Infotain You, as well as the show Black-ish itself to help clearly provide evidence that shows that show Black-ish contains satire.
Chris Lilley's Summer Heights High is a highly controversial mockumentary that showcases 3 different over exaggerated characters. One of them is Jonah Takalua, a stereotypical Tongan delinquent. Many have praised his work, saying that it is a clever use of satire to convey important criticisms of today's society. However after learning about satire myself throughout this unit I have determined that Summer Heights High is an unsuitable and highly ineffective show for teaching satire in secondary school due to the high levels of crude language and stereotypical humour shown in Jonah that conceals the satirical techniques used. Jonah has been represented extremely ineffectively through the poor use of the satirical techniques of exaggerated caricature and ridicule which certainly have the potential to influence students negatively. Lilley’s social criticism of the view that all Polynesian students are seen as trouble makers, is lost by his overemphasis on the very behaviours he is satirising.
People often write off animated films as childish and lacking any depth. However, the movie, Wall-E, points a large microscope at our society and our potential future. In the movie Wall-E, it’s a robot name Wall-E and Ben Burtt’s play’ him. Also, there are other characters is Eve and Elissa Knight play’s her. There's a that they go on because the planet earth doesn’t have a living plant except one. They have to place the plant in the place that the plant will go so they can get to earth. The Captain is played by Jeff Garlin and, the Captain had a hard time to get the plant into the deposit that it’s supposed to go in. Satire is used for humor and poke fun at a thing that is happening like when the place is in the chair they are too lazy to get up and do their own things. Also, they have the robots bring them the food. It pokes fun at humans because humans are lazy and us humans what other people or robots to get are things cause the humans made robots so people wouldn’t have to get up. They also wanted to show what happens to the earth if we don’t take care of it and, it will turn all to trash and doesn’t look like a nice place to live. The director Andrew Stanton used the movie, Wall-E, and satire as a way to criticize and comment on technology and environment in our society.
Even though I do not know well about American TV shows as a Korean, I picked a TV show, New Girl, among many TV show list of the website. “New Girl,” is an American sitcom television series about a story of a young woman’s, Jessica, finding her boyfriend. This TV show portrays real life of common people and draws sympathy of audiences. It says it’s OK to mourn breakups and unfortunate reality of being unemployed is not a shame. Many people would be consoled by watching this show.
Popular television shows aids to heavily influence American audiences, perpetuating, and problematic ideas about homosexuality. Not all mainstream media adheres to traditional social ideas. South Park uses satire to deconstruct heteronormative views on homosexuality. Therefore, homosexuality is accepted more widespread through use of mainstream media.
Use the guided analysis exercises within the lesson as a model for this part of the assignment.
Thank you for reading and replying to my post. Immigration is a very touching topic, I believe that we all know someone that their immigration status here in America is uncertain and if I put myself in their position, I’m sure it can be real intimidating. I agree with you when you say “that those that have clean records and work or study hard should have opportunities”, I think that if they are doing everything accordingly to what the law requires then the government will work with them. Just like you, I am not very familiar with the “DREAM ACT” but as far as I know the “DREAM ACT” never passed and is just a temporary programs program. I also heard on Fox Business news that President Trump is going to leave in place the protection
I enjoyed reading your post for this week’s discussion board forum. I may have to say that your thoughts are good thoughts; never think that you’re thinking too deeply. Deep thoughts carry stronger outputs, remember that. First, I would like to say that I didn’t think about poverty, immigrants and human trafficking until you stated this in your feedback. Immigrants and human trafficking is extremely important when it comes to VDPV being seen in the United States. There are so many scenarios when individuals are not able to get the required vaccination to keep them from contracting and spreading diseases. I believe that God wants us all to be protected from the harm of earthly diseases, but what are we to do for those who are in difficult circumstances.
In the Netflix mockumentary series, American vandal, made by Dan Perrault, the main character Dylan Maxwell, an 18-year-old senior at Hanover High School was held responsible for performing vandalism on 27 cars causing $100K worth of disfiguring. Everybody believed that Dylan was in charge of the destruction, despite the fact that he claimed innocence. Instead, they thought Alex Trimboli, the "eyewitness," Ms Shapiro, the Spanish teacher and everyone else that claimed he was behind the vandalism were speaking the truth. They put Dylan as the prime suspect based on his past with Ms Shapiro and furthermore because they believed he was capable of committing such crime. The thesis of the show is never to prejudge a person based on their past. That may sound as cliche as it appears to be yet the accompanying procedures used to shape the show will enable one to see how under the circumstances this might be viewed as a cliche thesis. The examples of satire that the creators used were humour, exaggeration and irony. A diversion was utilised to make the show enjoyable for young people, yet with the use of satire, they could influence teenagers to appreciate the show while accepting a genuine message about how a false allegation against anyone could destroy their lives. Many of the people in the show were biased against rebellious teenagers which was something that Dylan was known for being. In the mockumentary, Dylan Maxwell was accused based off his image, his past, as well as his
Today, in america, there are different people in the world. It’s mind blowing to realize how many people live here. People come from different places, thus making them look different from others. People talk different and look different which is odd. I am not a fan off so many people here, they take from us and steal from us. So today i'm here so say, leave my country.
When someone says the word immigration, what comes to your mind? Some that came to a country when they aren’t really supposed to be there? A person that leaves their country to go to a new? From place to place? Although that is partly true, it’s not the whole truth. They have many reasons to come here, like wars and inequality. If they are going through this, then why do our peers in America discriminate them. If we were in their shoes, would we want more problems?
Everybody should leave their sofa and hop into the nearest theatre to watch the most amazing fun-filled animation… Zootopia. All ages can enjoy cute and delightful characters like Judy Hopps, the bunny cop, and Nick Wilde, the fox con artist as they work together to solve a mystery full of suspense. The animators created a storyboard laced with bits of educational messages along with considerable humor. Also, Walt Disney studio created the best soundtrack and impressive 3D images to produce the most amusing movie. It’s definitely a delight for the whole family.
Have you ever thought what would our future would look like? When people think about the future, people usually think or dream a positive look on the future’s technology. Black Mirror says otherwise. Instead, they show the future’s technology’s downsides if we become too reliant on our phones, computers, etc. Black Mirror is an anthology created by Charlie Brooker based on The Twilight Zone with a different twist on technology instead.
Mcdonalds, the latest style, or some random toiletries, it doesn't matter what it is we’ve all bought some pointless nonsense at some point. I’s that our American dream? To mindlessly spend money on junk we don’t need to satisfy urges we don’t want? That is our unknown narrator’s plight in the grotesque satire that is the masterpiece of Fight Club. First, what is Satire? It’s much more than a scene from Snl, it is a story driven joke meant to push in an idea in a comical way. But fight club is just a misogynistic tale about a whole bunch of man-children terrorists beating eachother up just because they lost themselves somewhere along the path. No, Fight Club is so much more than that. Fight Club is a satire about The pointless spending surrounding American economy, about social expectations and the way everyone else thinks you should be, It’s also a satire on healthy social relationships and a distorted view of brotherhood.
1. Locate an example of satire. Copy and paste it here, making sure to note the source where you found it in a proper citation.