Coach Meets a Gay Guy
Added 2022-05-07 00:15:14 +0000 UTC“A Real Guy’s Guy” (October 25,1991)
Hear us out here: Coach is a good sitcom even if you don’t like football. In fact, Drew likes Coach even though he actively despises football. This fourth-season episode has Craig T. Nelson’s character reacting to news that one of his players is gay, and it’s actually pretty flawless in terms of what a gay episode can be: a sympathetically written one-off queer character + a realistic model for how someone who isn’t comfortable around LGBTers can admit this without taking it out on anyone else. In short, a total grand slam.
Watch the opening sequence to Princesses.
And check out Coach’s Clare Carey playing a sexy robot alien woman on the Super Mario Bros. Super Show as a reminder of how weird this show actually was.
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Comments
I never watched Coach in my life. I didn't want the sports association, and I'd split as soon as I hear that theme song. For this reason, it's always interesting to hear you talk about shows I activity avoided (Step By Step comes to mind, but that was an active dislike). I always dig your takes, though. And I'll add that Poltergeist is the main thing I associate Craig T. Nelson with, and it was a huge move for me as a kid. He was also good in some episodes of Grace and Frankie.
Beth Ellis
2022-06-09 19:28:56 +0000 UTCI don't have links per se, although I'm sure there are articles out there about this. But watching a lot of Joss Whedon stuff I enjoyed before has been marred by seeing stuff that is something characteristic of his work and also characteristic of him being bad: infantilized women, for one (Drusilla in Buffy and Malady in that new series he did for HBO). There is also the sort of dialogue he writes, which is fairly distinct and which has ended up permeating into broader pop culture. For example, a lot of people thought the dialogue in the live action Cowboy Bebop was very Whedonish. But also there is just the general sense that he was projecting an image that was not who he really was, and that makes some of the best parts of the show — strong female leads, for one — ring hollow today.
Drew Mackie
2022-05-09 22:31:55 +0000 UTCWhat's the deal with Buffy being unwatchable? I understand not liking Whedon himself anymore but the first five seasons of Buffy are still a pretty great piece of TV storytelling. Any links to share to understand what you're seeing?
Ryan Atkins
2022-05-09 19:15:43 +0000 UTCHockey players do this like ice humping hip opening stretch before games. It's something to see.
Lea Susan Engle
2022-05-08 00:11:16 +0000 UTCThank you. Maybe I’m remembering wrong but I could swear the word in this class was a Hebrew word that meant something close to diaspora but all my searching hasn’t yielded anything that looks familiar.
Drew Mackie
2022-05-07 22:46:52 +0000 UTCGoy and gentile mean the same thing, and the word Drew is looking for I'm pretty sure is "diaspora".
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
2022-05-07 22:15:20 +0000 UTC
