I haven’t seen this show yet. I might watch some of it because, having grown up in the South, I like shows that send it up.

This article got me thinking about something again that I was contemplating for a post the other day. The thought I had was that the left is essentially for banning anything fun. I don’t mean that they are explicitly supportive of this, but anything that is humorous or fun has to be transgressive in some way or other, and unless that transgression is very circumscribed the modern left is firmly opposed to it.

Gay and other critics don’t seem able to enjoy that nuance though, and I can’t really fault them for it. They’re stuck looking for brilliance in all the wrong places—formal coherence, good politics. Insatiable isn’t serving any of that. If it were, the show wouldn’t rapidly escalate from pregnancy scare to demon possession, or make one of the sexiest scenes of the show a baptism.

God, that sounds great. The modern left, though, doesn’t really do nuance any longer. The entire society is moving as a whole (both left and right) to authoritarianism so it makes total sense that the left can’t handle anything like this. And no one can seem to look beyond the surface of anything at all these days. Even supposedly-incisive critics like Gay can’t seem to have any more than two-foot-level view of anything.