I have already posted about my love for the new One Day at a Time. Over the past few night, I've even started re-watching it, using it as my "TV comfort food" when the day's news wipes me out. (I can't even imagine the pain I'd be feeling from my always-clenched jaw if I didn't have my night-guard. Sigh.) Anyway, this piece from The Atlantic does a great job explaining just one reason the show is so appealing these days:
"And what are families—the people we have not chosen for ourselves, but to whom, nonetheless, we are bound—if not microcosms? Of nations, of cultures, of societies? One Day at a Time is a family sitcom that takes the widest possible interpretation of “family” itself: It understands its own family not just as a collection of parents and kids and friends, but also, seen in a certain light, as a metaphor for the rest of us. It is about the American family as much as it is about this particular American family. We will argue among ourselves—that, too, is what families do—but we will be at our best, the show suggests, when those arguments are constructive, and permissive, and above all guided by empathy. One Day at a Time is in that sense a sitcom that is also a civics lesson. Good faith, after all, won’t fix everything. But it’s a pretty good place to start."
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