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Jordan Meadows's avatar

About a year ago, I wrote a similar piece titled something like "What Happened to Sitcoms: The Woke Code." It explored how the self-imposed Hays Code of early 20th-century Hollywood faded away, only to seemingly re-emerge in the form of today’s "woke" sensibilities dominating the film and TV landscape of the 2020s. It’s encouraging to see others noticing this phenomenon too! I genuinely miss shows that could joke about racism or throw jabs at one another—fictional comedy is the perfect space for playing with those kinds of provocative ideas.

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Laura Hans's avatar

Zaid, I like a lot of what I've read in The American Saga, and I agree with you here, but only to a point. Things are fairly fresh and raw right now. The Producers nailed it, in the right time and place and coming from a great Jewish comedian.

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