In 2021, The Wonder Years, Swagger and Colin in Black and White challenged stereotypes about Black boyhood
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TV in 2021 painted a bleak picture of wealth, from Squid Game to Succession to The White LotusĢ021 was a good year in TV - and a bad year in TV
But the vision of humanity in King Lear is far more capacious than the jaded worldview pervading Glengarry Glen Ross. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy contains behavior far more depraved than anything dreamt of in Mamet’s philosophy. That’s always been part of the fun, but so far this season the ruthless amusement has been coming at the expense of a deeper involvement.
What looks like an evening soap opera often behaves like a feral satire. Mamet’s savage comedy is closer to the ethos of our Trumpian age, and Succession rubs our noses in what we’ve become. Implicit is the notion that the game is only as absurd as its players. The banter mucks around as happily in the psychological mud as it does in the corporate slime.
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A strong current of cynical humor has allowed the show to toggle between genres from its inception, but the series has gone into Glengarry Glen Ross overdrive since returning from the extended COVID-19 pandemic break." He adds: "The hyperactive camerawork of the first episode works to keep pace with a script that’s written in the bing-bang-boom rhythm of a Mamet play, where the joke’s on everyone. David Mamet has emerged as a rival god in the writers room. According to Charles McNulty, "Shakespeare isn’t the only playwright shaping the new season of Succession.