Gilmore Girls, Sex And The City, And The Cringeworthy Class Representation Of Television
The Financial Confessions
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Is There a Moral Purity to Poverty?
I'm interested to get your take on the balance between not demonizing or infantilizing poverty in media, but also not pretending as though it's a total moral absolution. The moment that you think the characters have made progress, something happens and they go back down. I remember reading responses and reviews was like, why can't they be happy? Why are they doing the same thing over and over again? And I'm like, because they're poor,. They live in a shitty area. They only have so much mobility. Part of it is being in an environment where you can be smart, you can be kind of being clever, you can sometimes really break through. But if part
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