After the episode where it was revealed that Sammy failed to attend any classes in any semester of his first two years living on the school campus, I wanted him to be dragged home by his parents. I wanted the shot of Thad Castle, face covered in cocaine, in trouble with the NFL, to be the last shot, and for there to be a quiet report regarding his overdose demise. Every ten minutes I hoped coach Marty Daniels would be curb-stomped by one of the players or coaches he abused, knowing there was little hope of that. Watching them for as long as Blue Mountain State runs, a merciless three seasons, truly wears on your soul. The show treats all of its characters like they are good people who stumble into silly shenanigans from time to time even when their behavior is life-ruining for those around them, the essence of selfish, and crude. The final shot of her being led away by all the muscular lacrosse players is perhaps more macabre than the writers realized it would be, for all that can go through one’s head during such a scene is a gruesome imagining of the endless gang-raping soon to befall her. In the episode I found personally most distasteful, a virgin is sacrificed by the football team to the lacrosse team as a means of creating peace between them. In the finale of season two, the school riots to celebrate a perfect 12-0 season from the football team (no games or even plays depicted), and as a result of their mob mania, all the cheerleaders lives are imperiled. Yet another episode with him has him trapped under a bench-press bar and cutting off his own nipple with a broken glass bottle in a misguided attempt to free himself from a situation most reasonably intelligent people would find easily extricable. In another episode, the idiot mascot best friend character (and unfortunately one of the show’s creators) is part of a kidnapping of an actual goat, which is subsequently cruelly murdered as a result of boundless irresponsibility. In one episode, every member of the football team has drug-free pee pumped into their respective urethras to pass a drug test. The only redeeming characteristic of Blue Mountain State, which is otherwise a random, mean-spirited, and unfunny bacchanalia of the collegiate sex, drinking, and drug use, is that occasionally the writers accidentally wrote storylines so truly horrific in their content and presentation that it's amusing to think about afterwards that they could be continued to be delivered with the American Pie campy lighthearted tone.
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