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‘9-1-1 Lone Star,’ Give Me a Break. Please.
This is RightAngles, TV Reporter, here to save you some time. Do not bother to watch the new Fox show 9-1-1 Lone Star unless you want to end up throwing things at your TV. I admit I may have been predisposed to disliking this show because in the trailer they flew the Texas flag upside-down, but I think my initial gut reaction proved to be correct. So without further ado, here is my reaction to this over-the-top mishmash of SJW causes.
My first clue was when with the opening credits barely finished, we learn that New York Fire Capt. Rob Lowe’s son, also a fireman, is gay. I mean they just could not wait to stick that in there. Lowe is sent to Austin to repopulate a firehouse where everyone died in an explosion, and they tell him diversity is paramount (what?). As a result, we see him interviewing a paramedic in a hijab (he hires her even though she has 11 reprimands on her record), a black trans person (a twofer!), a basic Brown Guy who has failed the written exam four times (he hires him too), gay men, etc., etc. I mean is this the Fire Department or the SJW Cavalcade?
I don’t know about you, but if my house is on fire I want a 120-pound woman in a hijab with a record of not following orders and whose scarf is blowing around getting in her eyes and a trans person who’s checking to see if I’m a bigot before saving me.
In one pilot, they managed to pack in all that plus an opioid overdose, a learning disability, PTSD, and an illegal Mexican kid with asthma who is saved in the street by paramedic Liv Tyler, whose face is so puffed up with fillers that she looks like an alien. She tells the dad he needs an inhaler, and the dad says no insurance because he’s afraid of being deported, so she gives him her card and says she’s “with a group who doesn’t ask questions.” Why aren’t we mad at the irresponsible dad who put the kid in this situation?
And did I mention Lowe’s character is a metrosexual? In a locker room scene with all the firemen wearing only towels, he stands in front of the mirror and lets them all in on his skincare secrets, including the importance of exfoliating and moisturizing. Begone, Toxic Masculinity! He also goes for regular hair treatments so he won’t go bald. Oh, and he has cancer due to being a 911 first responder, and he tells his doctor he’s not sure if he wants this new cancer treatment that can prolong his life because he’ll lose his hair. “This is my look,” he says to her. Priorities, I tells ya!
Obviously we also have two men kissing. And this does not mean I have animosity toward gay people. I don’t. I have animosity toward sanctimonious TV writers who think they’re more sophisticated and intelligent than I am so they have to shove every social cause down my throat until I vote Democrat. We also have of course the requisite interracial couple, which is usually a white man with a black wife because the other way around makes black women mad.
Well, you know what, this whole stupid show made me mad, and a spinoff from the already woke enough 9-1-1 was not necessary. I want to be entertained, not yelled at.
For these reasons and for flying the Texas flag upside-down (which may have been on purpose. “Look at us! Stickin’ it to The Man!” but it may have been just ignorance), Two Thumbs Down.
That was terminally stupid. I stopped watching L&O after that.
It’s on the long list of “Things I Wonder About That Don’t Matter At All.”
That must have been the year that suddenly every show injected lesbians and gay guys for no apparent reason, like it was a box they all had to check. On How to Get Away With Murder, after we’d known the star for two or three seasons as a straight married woman, suddenly she jumped into a lesbian affair, and we find out she’d been a couple with this woman in college?! Huh?
I took it out of my DVR and never watched it again. But not just for that. I also realized there wasn’t a single likeable character. Every last one of them was a murderer, a cheater, a liar, or all three. Where are the heroes?
It would explain how someone like Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff keeps getting elected. They are the paragons of the new incompetent order!
Drew,
Well, you’ve got the title. All you’ve got to do is write the novel.
Regards,
Jim
RA, please remember to breathe. Breathe in, breathe out. Wax on, wax off… Thank you so much for your unwilling sacrifice. This show is beginning to sound like a comedy. No way I’m watching it.
The word gratuitous comes to mind.
I see it this way too. They’re trying to destroy the meritocracy. I think the stupid “Self-Esteem” movement was a part of it. They want to tear down everyone who has a talent or gift that makes them special. They hate that. So if everyone is special, then nobody is. They hate it that some people have a gift that you have to be born with, that can’t be bought or bestowed by the government. It’s why they’re trying to destroy the NFL, because not everyone can be in it. They hate all pro sports. I’m surprised they haven’t marched in protest that the NBA doesn’t have enough Asians. They hate supermodels too, and they try to get people to see them as “freaks of nature” or stupid.
Every aspect of the left, including these and the economic sameness of socialism, is based in the negativity of envy and resentment. Instead of “Good for him! Some day I’m going to have that too if I work for it,” they say, “If I can’t have it, let’s take his away from him.”
I actually did not realize they were serious at first! I thought the Rob Lowe character was being sarcastic and ridiculing metrosexuals, but NO! He actually IS one, and they were serious. That skin care scene in the locker room! OMG I thought he was being funny.
But really . . . it is satire, right? I mean, the show. They aren’t serious, right? This show is making fun of Woke-TV, right?
Please say yes.
They could put on the whole thing as an SNL skit and nobody would think it was not parody.
Well, I decided that the show couldn’t really be that bad so I pulled it up On Demand and started watching. My first thought was that OMG Rob Lowe looks really old! And, RA, you missed telling us the part where the son tells his Dad that his SO has fallen in love with his spin cycle instructor. At least I think that’s what he said. You really can’t make this stuff up. The writers couldn’t have done a better job if they really were writing a parody.
I kind of fell asleep so I missed the rest.
Yes, they tricked us there. He said “Dad, I’m going to ask Terry (or Pat or Chris or whatever it was) to marry me,” and then they cut to him in the fancy restaurant with the candles and we see that it’s not a girl. Not only is he a man, but of course he’s a black man.
Maybe it was just a sneaky attempt to make Fred look bad.
I liked Fred, he was so laid back he was the first person to attempt a Presidential mosey.
Harrison Bergeron. Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.
Brilliant, Zafar. I like Sanjeev Bhaskar very much, so that just made it all the better.
This says it all Why does their idea of equality have to be a dull dreary sameness? ( I saw Kurt Vonnegut in a restaurant in New York once and I nearly died of excitement. My blasé New York friends threatened to pretend they weren’t with me)
The show *was* called “How to get away with murder”.
Thanks Mister Smarty.
Happily, MASH is on TVland and the Sundance Channel. It’s horribly politically incorrect and I love it!
All of the MASH episodes on t.v.
This and others like it are ripe for the purging as soon as someone notices.
This is on again right now. People are stabbing them selves and jumping out windows. Liv figures it must be mercury poisoning because. . . Turns out the sandwich guy put mercury in the food because the people were bad tippers. Are you sure this isn’t a comedy?
It really does seem like parody. I have a feeling it has low ratings, and that they’re showing the pilot again, even though they’re on Episode 2, to try to boost viewership. They’re probably going “Oh maybe people missed it, so let’s show it again.'” No, Fox, it isn’t because people missed it.
Apart from the “woke” check boxes, this is another aspect of many modern show series that annoys me into not watching: The writers write “complex” characters to be “real” (though as we see, they’re not really real), and often making those characters “complex” means making them unlikable. With no likable characters to root for I’m probably not interested enough to continue watching the show.
I hate this too. They seem to think an “anti-hero” is more “relatable” or something, but we need heroes who are better than we are, figures we can aspire to be like. Not a protagonist who might be a great detective but he’s an alcoholic with three failed marriages behind him. Bring back John Wayne.
Thanks for taking one for the team, RA.
It is very strange to find ourselves living in a Monty Python skit.
I recently watched about 2 1/2 seasons of The Expanse. I’m a SciFi fan, and I tried to keep an open mind as long as I could, but they eventually lost me. It seems that every character is a bizarre weirdo. I went back to Stargate SG-1 for light viewing, though even Stargate (and the Trek series) are short of normal characters.
This story was so darn funny that I am now compelled to watch it – at least one episode. I’ll have to see with my own two eyes. No, I don’t just want to see the firemen in the locker room…..shheesshh…… I just can’t believe that anyone would write a show like this on purpose, expecting it to be taken seriously with all the forced PC stuff.
PS….. RA, your new avatar is genius.
Haha! Thank you! I had to change it when I woke up to find this on the main feed. I had to go incognito so I grabbed the hat and took a selfie in record time! (Most of my posts are marked “Members Only”)
It was on again last night, and I happened to put on the channel just in time to catch the “hair nightmare” moment. I couldn’t watch after about a minute of listening to Liv Tyler’s bland, whispery voice. It worked as an Elf, but it doesn’t transfer well to human characters. (Sorry if this was already covered in the comments – I can’t keep up)
I find her cringey in this as well. In addition to the voice, her puffy filler-face kills me. I mean she isn’t even 45 yet. What on earth does Hollywood do to these women, and how do they even find a reputable doctor who’d do it.