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It's no accident that Solondz's pedophile protagonist is a shrink and that the characters who get things off their chests go ahead and act on them anyway.
It was only a decade ago that Stephen McCauley published his first novel, The Object of My Affection , and startled his readers by having his gay protagonist, George, move in with a flaky Brooklyn social worker, Nina, and agree to be a father to her unborn child.
Movies that revolve around moral choices often have an aura of sanctimoniousness built into them: The audience is presented with the issue in the starkest blacks and whites and waits for the blinkered protagonist to "do the right thing."
Not only is it full of cursing, ethnic jokes, prostitution, and the like, but it dares to have no laugh track and a bastard as the protagonist: "the show is truly subversive and daring in its scabrous attitude" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). A few minor complaints: 1) The show is "a little in love with its own transgressiveness" (James Poniewozik, Time ). 2) The show relies on "humiliation humor" and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker predicts that the unlikability of star Jay Mohr will sink the show.
In Celebrity , the protagonist peddles a script about "an armored car robbery, but with a strong personal crisis."