Paper on TV shows and the reading - Movie Review Example

Something especially ironic is noted with regards to the “Lucy Does a Commercial” scene from the “I Love Lucy” show. On the surface, the scene engages the audiences with a tongue in cheek portrayal of an unwitting Lucy slowly becoming entirely intoxicated. However, on a deeper level, the portrayal of female intoxication is only allowable within the societal constraints of that time due to the fact that it was unintentional. Moreover, a secondary level of societal conventions which are challenged as well as affirmed are with regards to the way in which Lucy refers to both the director and her husband by saying “yes sir”.

Although quaint, this level of acquiescence is somehow out of place and stands in stark irony to the fact that her agreeing to do the commercial at all was built entirely upon deceit and lies to her husband (Doty 18). In such a way, the gender roles and inferiority that women held during the 1950s is adequately displayed while at the same time exhibiting a “will to power” and liberation of male repression by Lucy’s going to whatever means are necessary in order to accomplish her goals and desires (Di Gregorio 58).

The comedic irony of the entire situation is what adds to the understanding that there is a real and present flaw within society that is addressed by Lucy’s non-linear approach to male chauvinism and dominance within her own life. A similar level of parody and irony is evidenced with regards to Girls season 1 (pilot episode). The subversive level of comedy is evidenced within this particular show with regards to the way in which the girl-girl dynamics that are exhibited within the plot lines so completely and entirely differentiate from the girl-boy dynamics that are evidenced.

Naturally, the audience is fully aware of the fact that men and women are different from one another both in physicality and emotional response to key issues; however, the preposterous way in which this is presented allows for a preposterously absurd level of difference to be noted as a means of allowing the viewer to come to a more actionable understanding of how the sexes relate to one another and oftentimes experience a complete breakdown in rational understanding (Stransky 41). Elements of gender non-uniformity are allowed to permeate the plot as well due to the fact that the outlandish and absurd behavior that men/boys exhibit within the show leads the main female characters to seek each other out in a world that has seemingly turned its back to them.

Although this should not be meant to define a clear lesbian dynamic, the mental state of the relationship that the two main characters share is extraordinarily intimate as compared to any other relationship that is defined or related within the show. Lastly, with regards to season 4 episode 90 of the “Roseanne” show, the viewer is presented a comically ludicrous situation in which typical teenage behavior is reacted to in an overbearing manner by the parents. Continuing in this pattern of blissful ignorance with regards to the standard means by which children are likely to behave and would best react to corrective discipline, the adults invariably blunder into a situation in which they relive and re-institute the same overbearing style of dictatorial rule that turned them against their parents so many years ago