Arts
Amy Sherman-Palladino is a polarizing storyteller. You either love or hate Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and even Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Yet, Michelle, Katie, and Kyle fall in the middle, and for many different reasons. The question isn't whether or not the show is good. It's more about adding the sum of its parts, and that leads to a bigger question. What's the responsibility of art that portrays marginalized people? The Misfit Crew gets their fingers dirty digging deep into Sherman-Palladino's work, discuss the problematic nostalgia with 1950s aesthetics, and contemplate how the show shines and how it falls dull. Additionally, the crew muses about their writing and how Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks is scarily the modern-day version 1984.