Ok, not ALL of the writing is bad. Generally speaking, they do a good job of feminism advocacy. But it seems such a missed opportunity to make it all more "realistic" to get better drama, better commentary, and better laughs.
For example, the character of Shane is portrayed as a "dumb" guy, but in such an unrealistic way. Don't get me wrong: there exist real people who are a hell of a lot more stupid than this character is. It's just the way he is portrayed, a kind of sit-com handsome dumb guy. Even Kelso (Aston Kutcher from That 70s Show) was more realistic.
I was 9 years old in 1971, so I'm sort of familiar with this time period. It also seems like they're hitting too many stereotypes and exaggerations for the sake of always telling the audience: Hey, this is 1971!
And it's not as if I always hate it when something's not realistic: I absolutely love Toast of London, a ridiculous sitcom set in modern times, but with many tropes of late 1960s early 1970s British film and TV. Or how about Lady Dynamite, and completely ridiculous and brilliant sitcom partly about mental health.
Roger Ebert once said this about special effects: Stop motion looks fake but feels real. CGI looks real but feels fake. I think a comparison can be made in scripts. It can be quite possible to have a script full of completely fantastical, supernatural, and/or scifi elements but FEELS REAL. And it can be quite possible to have a script with none of those things, ostensibly set in the "real world" but FEELS FAKE.
For example, the character of Shane is portrayed as a "dumb" guy, but in such an unrealistic way. Don't get me wrong: there exist real people who are a hell of a lot more stupid than this character is. It's just the way he is portrayed, a kind of sit-com handsome dumb guy. Even Kelso (Aston Kutcher from That 70s Show) was more realistic.
I was 9 years old in 1971, so I'm sort of familiar with this time period. It also seems like they're hitting too many stereotypes and exaggerations for the sake of always telling the audience: Hey, this is 1971!
And it's not as if I always hate it when something's not realistic: I absolutely love Toast of London, a ridiculous sitcom set in modern times, but with many tropes of late 1960s early 1970s British film and TV. Or how about Lady Dynamite, and completely ridiculous and brilliant sitcom partly about mental health.
Roger Ebert once said this about special effects: Stop motion looks fake but feels real. CGI looks real but feels fake. I think a comparison can be made in scripts. It can be quite possible to have a script full of completely fantastical, supernatural, and/or scifi elements but FEELS REAL. And it can be quite possible to have a script with none of those things, ostensibly set in the "real world" but FEELS FAKE.