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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8915130" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>Differences of opinion and all that! I think people tend to be far too unforgiving of the fact that different people will have different reactions to things. And this can be for all sorts of reasons ... their own personal history. The particular mood they are in when they experience it. Their own preferences.</p><p></p><p>For example, I have gradually accumulated a searing hatred of laugh tracks since the 90s to the point that I cannot watch a show with a laugh track. Even classics that I used to love (like Seinfeld) are almost unbearable to me now. On the other hand, I have a high tolerance for (as they put it in Clockwork Orange) a bit of the old ultra-violence, so I have no issue with media like John Wick or Tarantino movies; but I have a good friend who can't stand it.</p><p></p><p>I think <em>Barry </em>is brilliant because it's been willing to go <em>there </em>(to explore the boundaries between comedy and darkness), but I can also understand that there are people who are uncomfortable with it; after all, the natural sympathy that is engendered by the relationship of the viewer and the protagonist of the show is central to what is being subverted over time ... which is why it can engender that feeling of misery. That discomfort can either be a source of anguish or a source of frisson as you dwell on it; neither reaction is wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8915130, member: 7023840"] Differences of opinion and all that! I think people tend to be far too unforgiving of the fact that different people will have different reactions to things. And this can be for all sorts of reasons ... their own personal history. The particular mood they are in when they experience it. Their own preferences. For example, I have gradually accumulated a searing hatred of laugh tracks since the 90s to the point that I cannot watch a show with a laugh track. Even classics that I used to love (like Seinfeld) are almost unbearable to me now. On the other hand, I have a high tolerance for (as they put it in Clockwork Orange) a bit of the old ultra-violence, so I have no issue with media like John Wick or Tarantino movies; but I have a good friend who can't stand it. I think [I]Barry [/I]is brilliant because it's been willing to go [I]there [/I](to explore the boundaries between comedy and darkness), but I can also understand that there are people who are uncomfortable with it; after all, the natural sympathy that is engendered by the relationship of the viewer and the protagonist of the show is central to what is being subverted over time ... which is why it can engender that feeling of misery. That discomfort can either be a source of anguish or a source of frisson as you dwell on it; neither reaction is wrong. [/QUOTE]
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