After Lucille Ball's spunky housewife Lucy signed off on the last episode of "I Love Lucy" but before Mary Tyler Moore did away with the nuclear family sitcom model with her own self-titled show, another actress was one of the faces of womanhood in comedy. Oscar-winning actress Donna Reed headlined "The Donna Reed Show" from 1958 to 1966, playing middle-class mother and housewife Donna Stone in the popular black-and-white series. Reed starred opposite Carl Betz, who played Donna's husband, pediatrician Dr. Alex Stone. In season 5, family friends Midge and Dave joined the fun, but for the most part, the show was all about the lighthearted hijinks of the Stone family.
Though "The Donna Reed Show" was popular upon release, it's now perhaps most often referenced as a pop cultural window into a time before second-wave feminism, when women were expected to spend their time cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing while men went to work.
Though "The Donna Reed Show" was popular upon release, it's now perhaps most often referenced as a pop cultural window into a time before second-wave feminism, when women were expected to spend their time cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing while men went to work.
- 3/29/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Chicago – Currently touring the film festival circuit, the new film “Unfriending” … by writer/director/brothers Brett and Jason Butler … is a pitch black comedy on our weirdly filtered world today. The Canadian filmmakers are veterans of five features, and have been building their reputations since the mid-2000s.
The film centers on Blake (Sean Meldrum) and his girlfriend May (Simone Jetsun), as they host a dinner party for their closest friends, including Blake’s oldest friend, Isaac (Alex Stone). The dinner party is actually a set up for a “life intervention” for Isaac, where the friend group tells him all the reasons he has become a burden to them and society in general, and that he should really just kill himself already. This black comedy is a razor sharp satire on cancel culture and the current me generation in general.
'Unfriending,' Written and Directed by Brett & Jason Butler
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The film centers on Blake (Sean Meldrum) and his girlfriend May (Simone Jetsun), as they host a dinner party for their closest friends, including Blake’s oldest friend, Isaac (Alex Stone). The dinner party is actually a set up for a “life intervention” for Isaac, where the friend group tells him all the reasons he has become a burden to them and society in general, and that he should really just kill himself already. This black comedy is a razor sharp satire on cancel culture and the current me generation in general.
'Unfriending,' Written and Directed by Brett & Jason Butler
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- 8/26/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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