{"id":35551,"date":"2016-08-15T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35551"},"modified":"2016-08-14T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T22:14:20","slug":"new-sitcom-works-very-hard-to-offend-its-audience-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/08\/15\/new-sitcom-works-very-hard-to-offend-its-audience-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"New sitcom works very hard to offend its audience, Millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/08\/the-great-indoors-offends-millennials-joel-mchale-stephen-fry-mike-gibbons-tca-1201801426\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa de Moraes<\/a> explains why the cast and crew of the new CBS comedy are being attacked on social media for their insensitivity to the plight of Millennials: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>War broke out today between millennial media and the cast and creators of CBS\u2019 new comedy series <em>The Great Indoors<\/em>, in which Joel McHale stars as an adventure reporter who becomes boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of their magazine. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It started when EP Mike Gibbons, who noted that 40 is the new 80, mentioned that CBS focus-grouped the pilot, and the millennial in the group said he did not like it because of the jokes about millennials being coddled, too sensitive and thin-skinned. The woman running the focus group, Gibbons said, clarified: \u201cSo, you were offended by millennials being portrayed as too sensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Millennial Media Member interrupted Gibbons. \u201cI\u2019m a millennial myself. How are we so coddled, and what about our overly politically correct workplace bothers you?\u201d she asked, like she meant it to sting.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Fry, who co-stars as the charismatic founder of <em>The Great Outdoors<\/em> magazine, who is a world traveler, explorer and adventurer, jumped in to note there is \u201can element of coddling\u201d and \u201can element in which you have it tougher than the generation before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Another media member, non-millennial, asked Gibbons if he was \u201cworried\u201d that the show would be dismissed as \u201cmiddle-aged white guy complaining about his lot in life and having to deal with millennials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joked Gibbons, \u201cOur show is going to make America great again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you are the Trump show?\u201d Non-Millennial Media Member snapped back. \u201cI\u2019m just seeking clarification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIrony comes through in print, right?\u201d Gibbons quipped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smalldeadanimals.com\/2016\/08\/generation-p.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Small Dead Animals<\/em><\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa de Moraes explains why the cast and crew of the new CBS comedy are being attacked on social media for their insensitivity to the plight of Millennials: War broke out today between millennial media and the cast and creators of CBS\u2019 new comedy series The Great Indoors, in which Joel McHale stars as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[86,956,101],"class_list":["post-35551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-criticism","tag-millennials","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9fp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35553,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35551\/revisions\/35553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}