Members aMLCproduction Posted September 4, 2007 Members Share Posted September 4, 2007 I don't know if a thread for this show has been started I didn't see one but is any one else watching and enjoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted September 4, 2007 Members Share Posted September 4, 2007 Ived watched it a bit. I actually had to download the first few episodes bc I never remember to watch it when its on tv. Whatever happened to the mother? Is she in rehab or still out there doing crack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JER Soaps Fan Posted September 4, 2007 Members Share Posted September 4, 2007 I watched two or so episodes. HUGE fan of "Diary of a Mad Black Woman." The mama (forget her name) needs to visit the Paynes more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aMLCproduction Posted September 4, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 4, 2007 It's Madea JER. Lol The last time we saw the mom, Ella really tried to reach out to her. But nothing else has been said. You know really, HOP is like a soap opera. Mr Brown was last weeks episodes. Great stuff. This is a solid family comedy, drama. JER have you ever seen the Tyler Perry plays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JER Soaps Fan Posted September 4, 2007 Members Share Posted September 4, 2007 Never, but I'd love to see the plays. Oh, I've ALWAYS wanted to go to those kinds of plays. You know, the ones that are titled things like, "Don't take Mama to church until she confesses that she done stole that recipe" or something like that. I don't know how you classify those plays, usually spiritually themed, loud and larger than life. But I LOVE the ads for them on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kingtechla Posted September 4, 2007 Members Share Posted September 4, 2007 JER, all of Tyler Perry's "Madea" plays are available at Amazon and places like Target or Best Buy. The can probably find them all in a box set under $30. I only got into them a few years ago when my mom went to one of his plays here at the"Kodak Theatre" and raved about it. My favorite is "Madea Goes to Jail". "Meet the Browns" is good also. btw for those who have missed the show and can't download them if you have Time Warner Cable you can watch all the episodes in the "On Demand". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aMLCproduction Posted September 5, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 5, 2007 Madea goes to jail was so moving. It had my ounk ass in tears. It was deep. Down on my luck, Back against the wind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JER Soaps Fan Posted September 5, 2007 Members Share Posted September 5, 2007 PLAYS on DVD? Get out of town! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 5, 2007 Members Share Posted September 5, 2007 I appreciate waht he's trying to do but find the tone always so ham fisted preachy (even in the two eps of this I found)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aMLCproduction Posted September 6, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 6, 2007 have you watched more than those two episodes? He JUST DID AN EPISODE ON HIV AND COLON CLEANSING. A great message he delivered to the black community Though if you have seen all his work like me, you will notice that he stuff can be repetitious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 7, 2007 Members Share Posted September 7, 2007 I'm all for his message episodes and educating audiences--trust me. I just find his style in general--be it Diary, or this show, facile, black and white (in terms of very few layers to the storytelling or characters) and for some reason (and I said this is JUST me and I have norfair justification) kinda offensive. I volunteer a good chunk of my time for a community counselling center and know that many of the issues he deals with are important and I appreciate that he does seem to be speaking directly and getting thru to his intended audience. I know part of it is my biase about the man after reading some very one sided, I admit, thoughts about his take on homosexuality in the black church even though from all I've read and seen he is gay (and of course is most famous for playing a drag grandmother) but I think I'm also open enough to try to see things with an open mind--I just don't think it's a very well written show and I find its messages as hamfisted as a Saved by the Bell special episode... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aMLCproduction Posted September 8, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 8, 2007 Very true indeed. He does not give his characters layers at all. I knew he was Gay. My sister keep telling me he aint. It's written all over his face. A lot of the plays are VERY REPITIOUS AND so BLACK AND WHITE. The cheating woman or man. The tamberoine player. The characters talking funny and sound alike, i.e. Madea, Mr Brown both. The fat people jokes( its in all his productions) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 9, 2007 Members Share Posted September 9, 2007 That's exactly it--it seems like his writing is very facile and "easy"--like you say the fat people jokes, the villain, etc--in many ways it's a modern equivalent to the old fashioned "boo hiss" melodramas that were so successful in the 1800s. Nothing wrong witrh that--it's a formula that works. it's just not my thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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