Inkoo Kang
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 14 Aug
Inkoo Kang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is maybe like a little bit insider journalism-y, but around the midway point in the year, they asked me to come up with like a list of three or four shows that were my favorite of the year so far.
And I noticed that they all happen to deal with essentially downward mobility and
And I think specifically in a lot of cases, the downwardly mobile middle class.
And it's a little bit different because obviously so much of prestige TV in the last, I don't know, 10, 15 years has been dominated by the super, super, super rich.
And of course, television has like a fairly long tradition of working class families for the most part.
So BroTV was sort of like my attempt at trying to talk about like this sort of like kind of novel focus on the downwardly mobile middle class.
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Hi, thanks for having me.
Yeah, I don't think that there's a show that does this better than the second season of Beef.
It is very much about class.
It is about the working class and the middle class sort of being maybe upper middle class, like being pitted against each other.
And it is also very much about this sense of
That you feel like because you've like made it to a certain place, things should be okay for you and they're really not.
And maybe part of it is your fault.
Maybe part of it is just that the system is rigged against you.
But I think that is so much like a core part of that show is,
And the other show that I really wanted to focus on was The Comeback, which is about a former sitcom actress who sort of gets like one last hurrah in her business as like a 60-year-old trying to make it in the world of sitcoms, which is really becoming like an endangered species in television.
And she is working in an industry that has sort of like speed run through like the...
sinking of the middle class that we have been talking about.
So those were the shows I really wanted to focus on.
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