S02.E02: Frat Problems

[peachmangosteen]

Airs November 17th.

[aghst]

Rolled my eyes at the strip show/charity thing.

I know some women can be just as shallow as men but they all acted Pavlovian at the sight of shirtless men.

Maybe this generation does react positively to things like dick pics.  Teens and preteens supposedly have emotional problems linked to social media and the pressure to fit in, which means being sexualized when they're not ready to be.

These girls aren't suppose to be much older than that.

Seems like women who respond enthusiastically to male strippers tend to be older women, well past college years.

Bela's oversexed personal is suppose to be an outlier but the other characters kind of mimic her at times.

I couldn't believe the dean would agree initially to co-sign her loan.  She obviously can't do that for every student she finds promising.  The show doesn't have to be serious but maybe they could have delved a bit into the problems with college tuition costs, which are out of control.  But they tried to create comedy out of it, having Kimberly take that job transcribing an Australian reality show.

[peachmangosteen]

2 hours ago, aghst said:

I couldn't believe the dean would agree initially to co-sign her loan.  

She wasn't the dean, just a professor. Still, that was ridiculous lol. But, the show is a silly comedy so it didn't really surprise me.

The first 2 eps were fun, easy watching.

[gesundheit]

On 11/17/2022 at 3:26 PM, aghst said:

Bela's oversexed personal is suppose to be an outlier but the other characters kind of mimic her at times.

They really do. This show does kind of live in a really really generalized world of absolutes where all girls (including lesbians!) are oversexed droolers anytime a cute boy is nearby and fraternities are the only reasonable social option on a huge Ivy+ campus. I get that Leighton can still appreciate an aesthetically appealing man, but she's always absolutely as invested in all the drooling and ogling as the other girls in their group scenes. It's very strange. 

It was painfully realistic that Kimberly did something as ridiculous as asking a professor to co-sign her 6-figure loan (students do this all the time to faculty and staff, truly proving how predatory the system is considering if they could understand what they're asking for at all they would never dream of this), but a professor saying "yes" is madness. I wish they'd done something like have the prof be her nominator for a grant or something, it just felt too silly. And silly is good, it's a comedy, but they didn't play that part for comedy! At least her accountant told her how dumb it was, I just think they could've played up the whole thing for laughs.

I definitely preferred the first episode! But still glad this is back.

[aghst]

Real Time with Bill Maher just had on a guest about young girls, age 11 or 12, becoming depressed as they get on social media, see themselves compared to models and celebrities.

Some young girls may be sexualized, by porn and such into acting out.  But I think many teen girls are pressured into taking part in things like sexting.

It just looked like the whole male stripper scene looked like a bachelorette party of women around 30 or older, not late teens or young women in their early 20s.

Again some do seem to get influenced by things like easily accessed porn but you would think some of them would be embarrassed, having had a more sheltered background.

[Irlandesa]

At first I thought "we should fuck" husband was going to be into something kinky with his wife and that's why she agreed to co-sign the loan. 

And I had a hard time believing the dean of a prestigious school would be all that impressed with a sum of $11,000 if she felt a sacred hall was being "violated."

[Empress1]

15 hours ago, Irlandesa said:

At first I thought "we should fuck" husband was going to be into something kinky with his wife and that's why she agreed to co-sign the loan.

I totally thought the wife was in on it.

[DearEvette]

On 11/17/2022 at 3:26 PM, aghst said:

Seems like women who respond enthusiastically to male strippers tend to be older women, well past college years.

LOL.  Yeah.  I was watching this episode thinking the same thing.  I live and work in a college town and between the three area colleges none of them have ever had a Magic Mike type fundraiser.  They tend to have  fun or silly or food or competition based fundraisers.  

I also wonder about the show focusing so much on the greek life being the center of the social set.  That can be true, but only up to a point.  There are a lot of different places/ways to get your party on that don't require Greeks.  Also for as diverse as this campus somewhat appears to be, there are whole demographics of students who would never go to these traditional Greek parties. It would have been nice for them to roll with the Greek house party ban and maybe explore other social spaces. 

They get some stuff correct, but there is a lot they miss on that either feels like the writers are really removed from college life or are just using it for a setting and using more conventionally recognizable tropes.

For a moment I thought the professor was in on her husband's shenanigans.  But I am gad they didn't go there.  That would have been more outrageous than Kimberly asking her professor to cosign a loan and her agreeing.  These days professor scandals don't trend toward the sex scandal, but rather them doing something bone-headed in the classroom like saying something racist or anti-LGBTQ during a lecture.

[NeenerNeener]

On 11/21/2022 at 1:00 PM, DearEvette said:

They get some stuff correct, but there is a lot they miss on that either feels like the writers are really removed from college life or are just using it for a setting and using more conventionally recognizable tropes.

I always assumed this was Mindy Kaling trying to rewrite her college life as she wishes it was rather than how it actually was, and Never Have I Ever is her rewrite of her high school years. 

[Traveller519]

The show obviously has some momentum with more recognizable actors showing.up as University staff. Rachael Harris as the Dean and Kerri Kenney as the prof.

I didn't mind the established actors as the parents in Season One since they only popped in and out, but more famous faces more generally around the show may take the focus off the leads. Fortunately both seemed to support in their roles this episode and not try to steal the scenes they were in.