Zero Method- All Madness™

What follows is not pretty. If you are a fan of the show, just keep scrolling because you're really not going to like this. 

If you decide to keep reading, just know this- I really don’t know how intense this fandom is but I imagine it’s up there if Netflix brought it back to life, so go easy on ya girl. I just need to vent. 

ON TO THE MAIN EVENT:

I have never been a fan of Lauren Graham; she’s always playing the same quirky character that has no filter and her charm is just sooo irresistible that no one can say no to that babbling widdle nut!  

I really didn’t know much about Alexis Bledel, except that she was in that movie about the jeans that my daughter watched 95,000 times. But not to fret! I’ve learned everything I needed to learn about her, and let me say, she was the perfect choice for Graham’s daughter. 

Holy hell, that little baby voice, oh GOD that baby voice. I couldn’t take it. Every time she opened her mouth I had to put a pillow over my head because the earplugs were just not enough. That can’t possibly be her real voice, it just can’t. Biedel really sealed the deal for me. She almost made me wish Netflix didn’t exist. Yeah, it’s that serious.

And then you put those two together and sprinkle it with Melissa McCarthy’s constant happy shrieks- I tell you, I don’t know how I survived. I’m certain I blacked out during some of the episodes; my brain roofied itself.  

Then come the forced pop culture references…

 Let’s just leave it at that because it’s just too much to tackle on a Saturday. 

And lest we forget the 1001 literary references per episode. We get it, you’ve read everything, EVERYTHING. 

I’m someone who really enjoys hearing literary reference in movies & tv shows, but when 300 references are shoved into 14 episodes, it makes me feel like the writers just gave up.

Last but not least, why would I care about these people? Small town Connecticut where money does not seem to be an issue, even for the most humble. And the main characters come from a filthy rich family but decide to make it on their own- but if the going gets tough (and by tough i mean, “I just got a check for a million dollars but the ivy league school I want to go to denied my financial aid application waaaaaaaah”) - Mommy & Daddy save the day!   

You have no idea how happy I am to be free of that hell. The First thing I did when I got my freedom back was call Netflix to suggest that they warn adults about the hellish dangers that lurk in these seemingly innocuous shows. 

"For 18 excruciating months, we were expected to entertain the fantasy that a person could vote for Trump without voting for racism, for xenophobia, for rape culture- when that campaign’s very slogan vowed to drag us backward to a time when the US was “great”, a time before people of colour and women and LGBTQ Americans had inked, in blood, our few hard-won protections into law. 

It’s gaslighting on a galactic scale. 

Blaming political correctness for President Trump is like blaming the civil rights movement for Jim Crow, or feminism for rape culture, or Stonewall for anti-gay hate crimes.

It’s every battered wife who has been murdered by her husband when she tries to leave. It’s “I wouldn’t have to hurt you if you’d just behave.”

...Trump is a man who believes in registering Muslims, restraining black protesters with violence, building a wall on the Mexican border and non-consensually grabbing women by the genitals – and you don’t think he has a vested interest in tamping down the dissent of Muslims, black people, immigrants, and women? 

He is institutional silencing personified.