"The Fosters" Brings Family Drama "Up to Date"
August 20, 2014
(left, The Fosters "family" consists of an inter-racial lesbian couple with children from different parents and races.) Monkey See; Monkey Do. Two percent set the example for 98%
Somehow, I missed the massive popular outcry demanding that multi-racial homosexual "families" become the new societal norm. Thankfully, Hollywood Jews (at ABC-Disney) and homosexuals have anticipated the need to help non-Jews and non-gays shed their racial and family identities. Thanks, Illuminati Jews! Below, the lamestream media promotes the idea that the death of the nuclear family represents progress and "social change."
[Fosters Creator] "Peter Paige is proving that you can make a traditional family drama with a non-traditional family."
Illuminati Jews and their Freemason lackeys have never met a society they didn't want to degrade and despoil.
by Jaime Weinman
"The Fosters Revives an Ailing Television Genre" (Maclean's)
(henrymakow.com)
(Question marks in text are mine.)
When you describe The Fosters, it doesn't sound like the kind of TV drama that would catch on in this edgy age.
(Left, The Fosters creator Peter Paige, right, is a gay actor who starred in Showtimes' Queer as Folks for five years. He is pictured here with co-creator Brad Bredewig.)It's the warmhearted story of a lesbian couple raising children from different parents and races, a companion piece to another ABC Family drama, Switched at Birth, the tale of two families who discover they've been raising each other's children.
"What's in vogue at this moment (?) is anti-heroes," says Peter Paige, who co-created The Fosters. His show, which wraps up its second season this month, isn't in that vogue: the parents are likeable people and so are their kids--even "bad girl" Callie (played by Maia Mitchell).
And yet both The Fosters and Switched at Birth have a following that most good-guy dramas don't get. The Fosters gets reviewed alongside Game of Thrones on sites like Vulture, and some critics feel it's edgier than the edgy shows. Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, arts editor for Shameless magazine, says The Fosters is willing "to deal with issues of racism, rape, sexual identity and addiction" in a way that cool anti-hero dramas won't.
IN THE "FAMILY DRAMA" TRADITION? -----------
These shows belong to an old genre--family drama--that has produced many hits, from The Waltons in the 1970s to 7th Heaven in the 1990s and 2000s. In recent years, though, most networks have abandoned the genre in favour of more violent fare.
Paige recalls that when he and his writing partner, Bradley Bredeweg, came up with the idea, "there was one family drama on the air, Parenthood," based on the 1989 movie. Sitcoms like Modern Family were doing a better job of portraying the present-day functional family (?) than any drama on the air.
That made Paige and Bredeweg worry that no one would buy their show, but once ABC Family came calling, they realized it was an opportunity to bring the form up to date.
While anti-hero dramas like The Americans deconstruct the white nuclear family, The Fosters and Switched At Birth celebrate the changing definitions of a family. (?)
FAMILY AS SMORGASBORD
Sometimes they can barely keep up with the changes: the first season finale of The Fosters, in which the lead couple got married, was filmed only two days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act.
Diversity is also a big part of the show: one parent is African-American and two of the adopted children are Latino.
Switched at Birth takes on class: the families are brought together by the mistake that mixed up their kids (one of whom is deaf), but they're separated by economic differences, a wealthy family co-existing uneasily with a poor one.
A recent episode had the mother, Lena (Sherri Saum), undergo a late-term abortion because her doctor told her she had pre-eclampsia. Another episode dealt with what Paige calls "statutory rape for boys," as characters discussed the implications of 16-year-old Brandon (David Lambert) having sex with his father's ex-girlfriend.
All this may broaden the viewer base. Other ABC Family dramas, like Pretty Little Liars and The Secret Life of the American Teenager, are teen shows. But John MacDonald, an executive for ABC Spark, which airs these shows in Canada, says the issues on The Fosters and Switched appeal to "the millennial audience we're targeting." Paige notes that "families with kids as young as 10 are watching the show and using it as a way to talk about some very difï¬cult and complicated subjects."
None of this has impressed Emmy voters yet, though Paige is happy about the recognition from critics and advocacy groups. And he's also happy to be proving that you can make a traditional family drama with a non-traditional family.
"What percentage of the population is being raised by two moms in a multi-ethnic family? It's very small. But in telling something so specific, your stories still resonate universally."
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First Comment by E
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Like the hypocrites and predators they are, homosexists exploit the moral currency of victims of THEIR persecutions, like blacks and Jews for starters, to further their own interests. And the people are seduced through their own weaknesses into buying into this political perfidy. The Gay schematic of operation by-en-large is revealed in THE OVERHAULING OF STRAIGHT AMERICA By co-authors Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill (Also known as Hunter Madsen). for additional Background see:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexual_Agenda
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Dan writes:
I want to say 'good for Eileen' (see comments) for avoiding television. I threw mine out in 2008, and since they've installed them in every public place they possibly can.
I have no plans to ever carry a 'mobile' internet or phone device. Only those who have gone for over a year without these inputs can really just how deadly the programming is. Not only for the mind, but for the soul.
Now, whenever I am exposed to television running in someone's house or in a restaurant, no matter what time of day, it's like sitting in front of a sewer pipe. Now I can see the character of the people that are on television: actors, celebrities, 'news' anchors, politicians, Televangelists... I see them all in their iniquity. Yes, I mean these aren't 'nice' people.
People with integrity don't get to be on television. They can't let the public see that. This is no recent development either. All the way back to the early silent movie days of Hollywood they put the most corrupt men and women to play "good" people.
Those saturated in the daily TV habit accept these shows as real - the situations workable. But they aren't reality. TV and movies can make impossible situations seem commonplace. I will never see this show, so I can only wonder what makes a "bad girl" bad on a show like this? Is she 'homophobic'?
No - if an episode is about an abortion with amusing dialog then they're still using the ancient Hollywood cliché of making the "bad" character somehow the one all the pubescent girls want to be.
Eileen said (August 20, 2014):
The Internet is equally pernicious for people, but obviously without counting sites like yours.
Anywhere you go on the internet, you can see gay ads, pictures, news, stories,etc.
Even when I close my e-mail I know yahoo will show me news about gay celebrities. Try to enter any online newspaper today, and type "gay" or "trans" in the search bar. You will surely find some news about it. Or before watching any youtube video, you also have ads or trailers for movies who show non-traditional families...
I have eliminated the tv from my room 4 years ago and it worked very well. Unfortunately my parents and brother still like television and have 4 more tv's in their bedrooms, kitchen and living room.
I would recommend people not using computers too, only for work if you need it.