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Is Nobody Wants This Mildly Antisemitic?
Yes, but that’s only a symptom of the show’s biggest issue.
Instead, however, the show traffics in tired stereotypes about modern Jews: the overbearing mother, a family obsession with how people make money, and strict community insularity. The Roklovs also speak around and about Joanne in a shockingly retrograde way, frequently referring to her as a “shiksa,” a disparaging term for a non-Jewish woman, in lieu of the more neutral goyim, or goy. Joanne and Morgan’s dotty mother, Lynn (Stephanie Faracy), dabbles in the metaphysical to constant mockery; their gay father, Henry (Michael Hitchcock), is rarely able to enjoy his own happiness.
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