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lou1sb 's review for:
Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary
by Monica Nolan
It's quite apt that I was watching season one of Mad Men as I was reading this. Both are 1950s references trying to decide whether they're being kitsch or ironic.
It's funny how some parodies manage to do the genre better than any of the originals. This is obviously over the top (the overuse of the ironic adjective 'gay' to describe vibrant colours, the excitement with which Lois approaches her career, etc.) and yet, like Tarantino's movies, goes a small way to allowing an oft-dismissed genre to be re-evaluated.
But god, the density of the main character is damn frustrating! She's a lesbian but she doesn't realise it, and she lives with a bunch of lesbians, but she doesn't realise that either. She's constantly hit on by girls, but never realises it. It's a kind of Queer-as-Folk fantasy world where no-one is heterosexual. I still managed to power through most of it in one night. Helped a little by too much tea.
It probably doesn't deserve four stars, but dammit, I enjoyed it.
It's funny how some parodies manage to do the genre better than any of the originals. This is obviously over the top (the overuse of the ironic adjective 'gay' to describe vibrant colours, the excitement with which Lois approaches her career, etc.) and yet, like Tarantino's movies, goes a small way to allowing an oft-dismissed genre to be re-evaluated.
But god, the density of the main character is damn frustrating! She's a lesbian but she doesn't realise it, and she lives with a bunch of lesbians, but she doesn't realise that either. She's constantly hit on by girls, but never realises it. It's a kind of Queer-as-Folk fantasy world where no-one is heterosexual. I still managed to power through most of it in one night. Helped a little by too much tea.
It probably doesn't deserve four stars, but dammit, I enjoyed it.