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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love it, binged over the weekend.  My mid 40s daughter also loved it.  We have no preconceived notions about Jewish people so it's all new to us, plus with the generally low quality of sit coms and rom coms we'll tolerate some stereotyping and stretches of reality.

Overall, A+[/quote]

Then you must be the intended audience. This felt like a Jewish primer in different places. I have Jewish in-laws (not my direct in-laws, my DH was the product of an interfaith marriage) and I have learned a lot of small things from them. However, I knew what a shiksa, Shabbat, etc. were before ever being married. Defining everything felt pedantic.

Super cute though! [/quote]

Probably needed for a subset of viewers.

I remember being shocked when, as a grad student in Ann Arbor, our neighbor (another grad student, but from Michigan) said that my roommate was the first Jewish person she had ever met.[/quote]

I grew up in the middle of nowhere and only knew two Jewish kids growing up. And plenty of people from my hometown knew zero -- it was random that the two Jewish families with kids in school wound up having a kid in my grade.

However even if you don't grow up around Jewish people you still learn about Jewish culture? Most of the Yiddish I knew as an 18 yr old I learned from Seinfeld and movies or books. So many TV shows, movies, and books are set in and around NYC and therefore even if the main characters aren't Jewish they will feature some Jewish culture. I knew what shabbat was (or at least vaguely that it was a meal/celebration Jews had on Friday), the words shalom and mensch, what the concept of kosher is (and that not all Jews keep kosher), etc. And this is with pretty limited exposure to actual Jewish people.

The idea American people in 2024 would have ZERO exposure to Jewish culture reminds me of some of my extended family who grew up very sheltered and uneducated Catholics. Some of my cousins thought Scientologists and Christian Scientists are the same, that most Christian churches are "sects" of the Catholic Church, and were surprised to learn that there are nearly as nearly 2 billion Muslims in the world-- not that far off from the number of Christians. It's not about growing up in a place that isn't diverse (they grew up 90 minutes from NYC) -- it's about being sheltered and incurious and then not reading or learning about the world.

So that's kind of how Bell's character comes off to me-- just historically incurious about people different from her in a way that seems uneducated and very shallow. I also find it very hard to believe that her new age mom wouldn't have gone through a "Jewish mysticism" phase, especially in LA. Though that probably would have produced even worse understanding of Jews, so I guess for the best![/quote]

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