Big Mike Recommends... It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
0Big Mike Recommends... It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
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It's difficult to capture how truly subversive this show was when it aired 19 years ago.
Today, the show blends in with things like Letterkenny, The League, Eastbound & Down, and many other "comedically crude but surprisingly poignant"-themed shows.
However, at that time, its popularity tapped into something cynically feral brewing under the surface in the United States of America.
What Always Sunny, in my opinion, really represents, is the United States' transition, psychologically, into the post-9/11 age.
Things weren't as simple, and definitely not as clean, as they used to be β and any time that happens, it is rife for artistic and comedic expression.
Leave It to Beaver was and is truly dead, replaced with something mildly traumatized, rabidly iconoclastic, and definitely, definitely stranger.