There are quite a few similar plot lines in some of fall TV's new shows
Everybody has noticed immigration is a thing.Bob Hearts Abishola
has its heart — sorry — in the right place, but the "Bob" half of the story remains coarse and unamusing. NBC'shas its brain in the right place, but its insistence on settling for the easiest punchline at every turn keeps thwarting a strong cast. Meanwhile, ICE-related plotlines abound without — see second trend — emerging as anything thoughtful or memorable.This last trend was what I really wanted to write about today.
By my count, of the 15 new broadcast shows that premiered since the Emmys, five gain heat from the funeral pyre for a dead female character never actually introduced as "living" within the show. With The CW, it's a solid 100 percent: Both Nancy Drew and Kate "Batwoman" Kane are still grieving their mothers as the shows begin.
None of these wives and mothers are seen living before their demise. Through the episodes I've watched, none is even vaguely defined as a character. The wife inagreed to a division of parental responsibilities that left her basically raising their two daughters. The mother inwas a repository of boring platitudes and didn't much care that her hubby was a noxious philanderer. In all five cases, the mothers are plot mechanisms, not characters.
So why are 33 percent of the new broadcast shows driven by dead wives and mothers? I've got theories, some good and some bad.If dead mothers are good enough for Bambi and half of the future princesses in the early Disney pantheon — how else do you think we get evil stepmothers? — they're good enough for TV in 2019. And yes, if it's in Disney, it's in the Brothers Grimm and if it's in codified fairy tales, it's in folkloric traditions of all sorts.
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