TV shows are sometimes criticized for lack of realism due to most of the cast being too good looking. What is a show that has mostly normal looking people?

Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org · 2 months ago

TV shows are sometimes criticized for lack of realism due to most of the cast being too good looking. What is a show that has mostly normal looking people?

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 2 months ago

Leona Helmsley has entered the chat.

The real one.

https://www.advocate.com/news/2007/08/21/hotelier-leona-helmsley-dubbed-queen-mean-dies-87

The woman they got to play her.

https://www.wallofcelebrities.com/celebrity/suzanne-pleshette/pictures/suzanne-pleshette_326300.html

psud@aussie.zone · 2 months ago

I suspect the ugliness was contributory to her nastiness, so it really was wrong to cast a beauty in the role

What happened to making it clear who was good and who was bad by good being pretty/handsome and bad being ugly?

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 2 months ago

https://bookshop.org/p/books/red-as-blood-tales-of-the-sisters-grimmer-tanith-lee/14214058?ean=9781479447473&next=t

This book takes all the Disney princesses and makes them the baddies. Snow White is a vampire and Cinderella is a witch who drives the poor Prince insane.

reddig33@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Suzanne Pleshette was always so gorgeous.

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 2 months ago

She could play a super model or the mom next door. And she was really funny.