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In recent months, the #MeToo movement has played a prominent role in a handful of TV shows.
This series has always wrestled albeit lightly and comedically with female trauma.
Thats not the only #MeToo or #MeToo-adjacent moment of the season, either.
the way that society minimizes victims pain.
(For more on this, hey read theNew YorkTimesinterview with the cast ofArrested Development.)
Several shows debuting in June travel a similar thematic road.
The fifth season ofYoungerhits the ground mad-dashing with an episode called #LizaToo in which author Edward L.L.
But that doesnt mean that all these TV writers are leaning on #MeToo as a marketing tool.
Moore and really played that for laughs.
And now [were] realizing,Wow.
We wouldnt find that funny anymore.
Thats sort of what our jumping-off point was [for season five] in the room.
So is television, and not just this summer, either.
In other words, #MeToo TV is here, and it isnt going anywhere anytime soon.
