“Miranda.” Why did I click? New on BritBox. Sitcom from 2009. Starring someone I knew from something else (Miranda Hart was on “Call the Midwife.”) It is. So bad. It’s like if a sitcom existed purely to confirm fears of pre-Awareness comedy, but there’s a sort of complicated reason
Ha, it is bad. I’ve used it as background comfort television sometimes, but I can no longer stand it even for that. Her friends are abusive and not funny, her stupidity isn’t believable, and her self-hatred is regressive. She’s choosing it. Plenty of large women outside the box of traditional attractiveness are perfectly confident and have no more problem than anyone else finding sex and relationships with desirable men. Miranda Hart once actually said as much, and said something about how she realized it was the walls she had up rather than her looks that kept her from being “datable” in college. It's too bad she didn't use that realization to make a show that was a much more interesting (and empowering!) exploration of life outside conventional attractiveness.
I do, however, enjoy the episode in which she and her mother visit the shrink. I think it’s called “Just Act Normal”.
EDIT: Oops. Thought I hadn't managed to post, so took the opportunity to do a stealth edit and discovered I was only posting a second time. First one deleted.
Ha, it is bad. I’ve used it as background comfort television sometimes, but I can no longer stand it even for that. Her friends are abusive and not funny, her stupidity isn’t believable, and her self-hatred is regressive. She’s choosing it. Plenty of large women outside the box of traditional attractiveness are perfectly confident and have no more problem than anyone else finding sex and relationships with desirable men. Miranda Hart once actually said as much, and said something about how she realized it was the walls she had up rather than her looks that kept her from being “datable” in college. It's too bad she didn't use that realization to make a show that was a much more interesting (and empowering!) exploration of life outside conventional attractiveness.
I do, however, enjoy the episode in which she and her mother visit the shrink. I think it’s called “Just Act Normal”.
EDIT: Oops. Thought I hadn't managed to post, so took the opportunity to do a stealth edit and discovered I was only posting a second time. First one deleted.