Bernie Mac, an appreciation
Update to earlier post
http://tevarin.livejournal.com/283068.html
From Mary Battiata at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-battiata/thinking-about-the-mac-ma_b_120248.html
"To me, the Bernie Mac Show was a fractured fairy tale set in sunny L.A., streaked with the dark humor of the Brothers Grimm. In one of many brilliant episodes, the three nieces and nephews Bernie is fostering inadvertently spoil his Thanksgiving turkey. Stricken with food poisoning, Bernie fantasizes about how much better his life would be without those "pesky kids," and the episode spirals into a wacky animated sequence in which Bernie chases nephew Jordan around the kitchen, Jordan morphs into a small butterball, and finally, is trussed and shoved into the oven. The oven! America, that's dark. And funny. I can't think of any other television show in prime time that would have dared it."
http://tevarin.livejournal.com/283068.html
From Mary Battiata at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-battiata/thinking-about-the-mac-ma_b_120248.html
"To me, the Bernie Mac Show was a fractured fairy tale set in sunny L.A., streaked with the dark humor of the Brothers Grimm. In one of many brilliant episodes, the three nieces and nephews Bernie is fostering inadvertently spoil his Thanksgiving turkey. Stricken with food poisoning, Bernie fantasizes about how much better his life would be without those "pesky kids," and the episode spirals into a wacky animated sequence in which Bernie chases nephew Jordan around the kitchen, Jordan morphs into a small butterball, and finally, is trussed and shoved into the oven. The oven! America, that's dark. And funny. I can't think of any other television show in prime time that would have dared it."