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TV: Married pilot and disc one of All in The Family

We can thank "Girls" for the new FX show "Married," the basic premise of which could be called "Life with a married couple in the tone of Girls." It proves that hipster-pieces of shit don't stop being pieces of shit once you get married. The glee and casual cruelty in which characters take in the misfortune and sexual humiliation of others is disgusting and mistaken for humor. Truly strange. Especially watching in contrast with All in The Family, a show every single television executive on the planet today would deem "too offensive." And yet, the show's hilarious. Archie is of course, racist, but the entire premise of the show is that he is a buffoon (as is everyone else on the show, save Lionel) and the show is happy to portray an overtly racist character with sympathy. And so we can laugh and cry with him and at him. The difference with Girls and her descendants is that the main characters are considered heroic and "brave." They have extraordinary self regard, these contemporary TV characters. And if, so if the TV fans are correct, and TV has taken over from movies in social relevance in America today, it only suggests to me one thing: Americans are worse people than we once were.