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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 299648" data-attributes="member: 5079">[USER=7]@Caproni[/USER] posted this in the BKR thread, but since it&#039;s Addams specific I&#039;m putting my thoughts on here.[MEDIA=youtube]DfuR620pLog[/MEDIA]As is usually the case with BKR, I enjoyed the video; some of the analysis I agreed with, some I didn&#039;t.&nbsp; But there was one key point that makes me wonder if the Addams Family has a place in 2021.The Addams are a macabrely satirical inversion of the Norman Rockwell-esque &#039;ideal&#039; American family of the early 20th century.&nbsp;&nbsp; Does that even exist anymore?&nbsp; The staid rigidity of even the early 60s, when the sitcom version could less macabrely but more kookily subvert the norms, has fallen.&nbsp; People are free to embrace and even flaunt their eccentricities and hardly anyone outside the most conservative of circles is going to clutch their pearls.&nbsp; Maybe the message of the Addams Family was heeded, but what&#039;s left for them to subvert? And maybe that&#039;s why they&#039;re slowly morphing into The Munsters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 299648, member: 5079"] [USER=7]@Caproni[/USER] posted this in the BKR thread, but since it's Addams specific I'm putting my thoughts on here. [MEDIA=youtube]DfuR620pLog[/MEDIA] As is usually the case with BKR, I enjoyed the video; some of the analysis I agreed with, some I didn't. But there was one key point that makes me wonder if the Addams Family has a place in 2021. The Addams are a macabrely satirical inversion of the Norman Rockwell-esque 'ideal' American family of the early 20th century. Does that even exist anymore? The staid rigidity of even the early 60s, when the sitcom version could less macabrely but more kookily subvert the norms, has fallen. People are free to embrace and even flaunt their eccentricities and hardly anyone outside the most conservative of circles is going to clutch their pearls. Maybe the message of the Addams Family was heeded, but what's left for them to subvert? And maybe that's why they're slowly morphing into The Munsters. [/QUOTE]

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