I love Hazel for what it is. I don't want to return to those days of live-in domestic help (Brady Bunch, Jeffersons, Maude); I don't demand a proletariat uprising as some critics want. It has enough episodes condemning snobbery to prove it's not stuck in antiquity. Moreover, anyone today who thinks attitudes to manual labor have changed a lot is fooling him/herself.
So love it for what it is and isn't. NO snark, NO reliance on constant put-downs, NO overdone innuendo. Like Donna Reed Show, the show is the right amount of up-lifing optimism and grounded pessimism.
Done with that issue, Next topic. I am guessing 60s TV was getting stale with the nuclear family formula and networks had to shake up programming by replacing it with shows featuring supernatural, single parents, identical cousins or whatever ingredients created Green Acres and Gilligan's Island. Thank goodness today we can love both sweet Hazel AND fierce Breaking Bad;
So love it for what it is and isn't. NO snark, NO reliance on constant put-downs, NO overdone innuendo. Like Donna Reed Show, the show is the right amount of up-lifing optimism and grounded pessimism.
Done with that issue, Next topic. I am guessing 60s TV was getting stale with the nuclear family formula and networks had to shake up programming by replacing it with shows featuring supernatural, single parents, identical cousins or whatever ingredients created Green Acres and Gilligan's Island. Thank goodness today we can love both sweet Hazel AND fierce Breaking Bad;