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== Controversy == |
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When Ryan Murphy met with an executive at The WB in 1998, the executive made homophobic remarks and notes to Murphy and about the show, ''Popular''. Murphy recalled, “I had one meeting with an executive about a script, and I showed up at the meeting, and he started imitating my voice, and making feminine hand gestures — which I don’t have — and I never thought my voice was gay until he repeated it back to me...I literally was stunned into silence and he was being really, really brutal to me."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Jung |first=E. Alex |title=Ryan Murphy Remembers a Homophobic Meeting With a WB Executive |url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/ryan-murphy-recalls-homophobic-meeting-with-wb-executive.html |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Vulture |
When Ryan Murphy met with an executive at The WB in 1998, the executive made homophobic remarks and notes to Murphy and about the show, ''Popular''. Murphy recalled, “I had one meeting with an executive about a script, and I showed up at the meeting, and he started imitating my voice, and making feminine hand gestures — which I don’t have — and I never thought my voice was gay until he repeated it back to me...I literally was stunned into silence and he was being really, really brutal to me."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Jung |first=E. Alex |title=Ryan Murphy Remembers a Homophobic Meeting With a WB Executive |url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/ryan-murphy-recalls-homophobic-meeting-with-wb-executive.html |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}</ref> The executive also gave a note on a ''Popular'' script, where one of the characters wore a fur coat and mentioned, "You have to take it out...It’s code for gay. You’re being very gay here."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Reilly |first=Kaitlin |title=Hollywood Is Ryan Murphy's Response To Years Of The Industry's Homophobia |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/05/9756058/ryan-murphy-hollywood-homophobia-story |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=www.refinery29.com |language=en}}</ref> The executive also talked about the character Mary Cherry<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last1=September 26 |first1=Tim Stack Updated |last2=EDT |first2=2016 at 09:57 PM |title=Ryan Murphy: The WB Was 'Very Homophobic' During the Making of 'Popular' |url=https://ew.com/article/2016/09/26/ryan-murphy-wb-popular-homophobic/ |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref> by commenting, “Could this character be less gay?...The language coming out of this character’s mouth seems very flamboyant, which we think is too gay and will offend some of our viewers, can you take that out?”<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> |
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Murphy continued, "They were interested in gay people who were tragic...They were interested if you were gay and you would kill yourself. Or if you would try and commit suicide. They weren’t interested in gay sensibility, or the language of being gay, which is sometimes not just gay characters."<ref name=":2" /> |
Murphy continued, "They were interested in gay people who were tragic...They were interested if you were gay and you would kill yourself. Or if you would try and commit suicide. They weren’t interested in gay sensibility, or the language of being gay, which is sometimes not just gay characters."<ref name=":2" /> |
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== Reception == |
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===Critical reception=== |
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In a review for [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.com]], Bret Fetzer wrote, <blockquote>"The key to ''Popular'' is how it merges melodramatic [[Soap opera|soap-opera]] stories with wrenchingly blunt and honest portrayals of the cruelties of adolescence. While some viewers may find it galling to listen to a gorgeous young actress who's been on magazine covers moan about how she can't be as perfect as a model, the series tackles everything from [[Anorexia nervosa|anorexia]] to peer manipulation to teen sex with directness and an eye for moral and emotional complexity. An episode about a [[Sadie Hawkins dance]] becomes a [[Satire|satirical]] farce about body image (female and male); a slumber party turns into brutal humiliation; a teacher decides to get a sex-change operation, prompting anxiety throughout the school. Almost every character gets a moment of heartfelt grandstanding, yet the actors pull them off with commitment and guts ([Sara] Rue routinely turns speeches that could have been cheesy schlock into genuine pathos). Sure, some fantasy sequences are silly, but the show skillfully creates characters and situations that defy easy definition...''Popular'' cunningly subverts expectations; it's a smart show for both."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Popular: Season 1 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Season-1-Leslie-Bibb/dp/B0001I55S8 |access-date=June 8, 2022 |website=[[Amazon.com]] |
In a review for [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.com]], Bret Fetzer wrote, <blockquote>"The key to ''Popular'' is how it merges melodramatic [[Soap opera|soap-opera]] stories with wrenchingly blunt and honest portrayals of the cruelties of adolescence. While some viewers may find it galling to listen to a gorgeous young actress who's been on magazine covers moan about how she can't be as perfect as a model, the series tackles everything from [[Anorexia nervosa|anorexia]] to peer manipulation to teen sex with directness and an eye for moral and emotional complexity. An episode about a [[Sadie Hawkins dance]] becomes a [[Satire|satirical]] farce about body image (female and male); a slumber party turns into brutal humiliation; a teacher decides to get a sex-change operation, prompting anxiety throughout the school. Almost every character gets a moment of heartfelt grandstanding, yet the actors pull them off with commitment and guts ([Sara] Rue routinely turns speeches that could have been cheesy schlock into genuine pathos). Sure, some fantasy sequences are silly, but the show skillfully creates characters and situations that defy easy definition...''Popular'' cunningly subverts expectations; it's a smart show for both."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Popular: Season 1 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Season-1-Leslie-Bibb/dp/B0001I55S8 |access-date=June 8, 2022 |website=[[Amazon.com]]}}</ref></blockquote>In 2014, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' listed ''Popular'' at #21 on its list of the "26 Best Cult TV Shows Ever", calling it "the proto-''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]''" and saying it "celebrated the value of outcasts and portrayed overplayed topics—Homecoming Court, sex, and secrets—through an absurdist lens."<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine |date=March 2014 |title=26 Best Cult TV Shows Ever |url=https://ew.com/gallery/26-best-cult-tv-shows-ever/?slide=380657#380657 |access-date=October 24, 2022 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> |
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===Ratings=== |
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