So if you happened to have watched the second episode of NewsNight, the new HBO series from Aaron Sorkin, you would have seen the female Hamster in full flight.
Jeff Bridges plays the anchor -- an emotionally stunted friendless news star. His ex-wife, McKenzie (?) comes back into his life to be executive producer. During this episode she inadvertantly sends an email to the entire NewsNight company about the fact that, in the past, she cheated on Bridges. This revelation of course, humiliates him.
Then she walks into his office and in a kind of frenzy of apology and self-justification says she cheated on him with her ex-boyfriend because she wanted to see if she really loved Bridges, and after the sleazy cheating was over, she realized that she still loved him.
Now, I think Sorkin is a died-in-the-wool Hollywood liberal, and the show if chock full of trite liberal sentiments, but this particular incident was astonishing and, surprisingly, wonderfully portrayed the female hamster in full flower.
What will happen, of course, is that the female audience will nod in agreement, "Yes it wasn't REalLY cheating because it was an effort for her to find herself."
And I bet the left-wing Sorkin believes that hamster rationalization is also valid ...and that the humiliation of the Jeff Bridges as the "alpha" anchor is...well....how things go in the new world of female careerism and empowerment.
It is both brilliantly accurate in that sometimes accidentally insightful way.
Here is a bit of the the behind the episode stuff. McKensize, the ex wife and cheater, supposedly the epitome of the in-control career woman, is a complete wreck.
http://www.hbo.com/the-newsroom?cmpid=AB...oAUBcXOA==
Jeff Bridges plays the anchor -- an emotionally stunted friendless news star. His ex-wife, McKenzie (?) comes back into his life to be executive producer. During this episode she inadvertantly sends an email to the entire NewsNight company about the fact that, in the past, she cheated on Bridges. This revelation of course, humiliates him.
Then she walks into his office and in a kind of frenzy of apology and self-justification says she cheated on him with her ex-boyfriend because she wanted to see if she really loved Bridges, and after the sleazy cheating was over, she realized that she still loved him.
Now, I think Sorkin is a died-in-the-wool Hollywood liberal, and the show if chock full of trite liberal sentiments, but this particular incident was astonishing and, surprisingly, wonderfully portrayed the female hamster in full flower.
What will happen, of course, is that the female audience will nod in agreement, "Yes it wasn't REalLY cheating because it was an effort for her to find herself."
And I bet the left-wing Sorkin believes that hamster rationalization is also valid ...and that the humiliation of the Jeff Bridges as the "alpha" anchor is...well....how things go in the new world of female careerism and empowerment.
It is both brilliantly accurate in that sometimes accidentally insightful way.
Here is a bit of the the behind the episode stuff. McKensize, the ex wife and cheater, supposedly the epitome of the in-control career woman, is a complete wreck.
http://www.hbo.com/the-newsroom?cmpid=AB...oAUBcXOA==