This looks interesting. A 10 episode building competition hosted by Tim Allen and Richard Karn, formerly of Home Improvement. It’s expected to premiere on February 14.
Can they make it completely and totally politically neutral…?
( …will they? )
Ii suppose you found the banter between Tim and the black neighbor somehow offensive? Tim acted the liberal but hardly in a nasty way.
Oh, I sorry! Was that ‘Last Man Standing’ star Tim Allen? He played the part of the Super Conservative ammo store gun pusher… whose wife is proven to be dopey every time she objects? The one who has his ‘favorite daughter’ wearing camo and packing an AK for hunting trips while the canned laughter laughs? Gun metal can be black, blue, nickel, stainless, and even creocoate no matter who their neighbor is.
OK, I don’t know why people are trying to make this thread political. This is going to be more like Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor. I don’t know what politics has to do with this show. Did you read the article? They should stay completely away from it. Way to dump on what should be a light-hearted, interesting show.
Tim Allen is a virulent pro-Trump fascist, not to mention a pretty shitty person in his personal life. His last character was pretty autobiographical. He’s the male Rosanne.
Maybe you don’t buy into cancel culture and are fine separating a person’s personal views from their art, even when hateful and violent and not just disagreeable, then you do you. But don’t be surprised when you bring up Allen that it gets immediately pollical, he’s very public with his views so I figure it’s par for the course.
Actually, I was surprised. I was unaware of his politics, not do I really give a shit. That doesn’t take away from my enjoyment of Home Improvement, Toy Story, or the Santa Clause. But then again, you do you. I’m not the type of person who has to interject politics into every goddamn conversation.
Allen is an actor, and so sometimes portrays characters very different from himself. In fiction works, of course his own personal politics won’t be relevant, because he’d be a bad actor if they were. But I think it’s fair to ask whether, on a nonfiction show where he’s appearing as himself, rather than as a character, whether his political views will be relevant. Maybe they still won’t be relevant: After all, it’s not an inherently political sort of show. But maybe they will.