June 17th, 2010 (01:45 am)
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Could that show be any more racist? I was pissed over their portrayal of Mexico in S2 but I thought maybe the show was doing that "it's from his point of view" thing so it made everything more gross than it needs to be, but now, in S3, there was a black nurse taking care of him for a day and she was so stereotypical (amongst other things she was "sassy," barged through his house with no respect for his privacy, threw away the list of his phobias basically telling him to grow up because "yo!" and then was sassy some more) it hurt.
In another scene they wanted to say some guy might be gay (because he looked like he was, not even touching that one) but they just couldn't make themselves say the word (if you say it you might catch it, I guess) so when Monk had no idea what they were talking about they gave up on trying to explain, rather than saying the actual word.
Also, I'm not sure is that's ableism or doctorism but apparently none of the educated and trained medical professionals in the San Francisco area has EVER seen a person with OCD before and they are all just so perplexed as to why a person would want to do things in a certain order (when even I who can't tell apart flu from a common cold would think, "hm, that's a bit OCD"). But no, THEY don't understand why he can't just ignore his compulsions. WTF?
This show started in 2001, that's not exactly the 90's climate any more.