Has anyone else noticed this? I've been taking mental note of the tone of a good majority of the new episodes, and it seems that the show as a whole is growing progressively darker. It presented itself to me first in the episode where Stewie accidentally hatches an evil twin, who goes around starting shit like it's his job. There was a decent amount of humour in the episode, yes, but there was a sort of intensity about evil Stewie. I figured, yeah, since he's evil, that makes sense, but it didn't end there.
Couple days ago, I watched an episode about Quagmire's sister. She's mentioned in a previous episode (when Brian is trying to be Quagmire's friend...now that I think about it, that episode was pretty serious as well). the entire episode is about domestic violence. Yeah, it's pretty funny, but it would have been funnier if it weren't so melancholy and dramatic. Look, I understand that you don't want to take the topic lightly. There's a difference, however, when you're a satirical comedic cartoon that pokes tremendous fun at people like Michael J Fox (who's like a goldmine of vibrating splendour), and you tackle spousal abuse, I expected the same light-heartedness. What I got instead were the regular cutaways and quick three-second lines, but there was hardly any humour regarding the subject itself. There was a shit fuck ton of opportunity for it, too. It was like a golden wall of censorship. There've been a couple episodes with that tone about them. I don't know if Seth's trying to be overdramatic deliberately or ironically (I would certainly get that), or if it's touchy to him or what. Anyway, I was perturbed.
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