It seems “The New Normal” … isn’t. NBC
has cancelled [1] its gay agitprop sitcom after just one season. 
“New Normal’s” plot revolved around a gay couple and the surrogate mother pregnant with their child. Ellen Barkin played the nasty, bigoted, conservative grandmother (a stretch for the nasty [2], bigoted [3] liberal Barkin) as the foil in the postmodern morality play.
Predictably, conservative Christians were a regular punching bag [4], and the show went to bat for Obama’s re-election [5]. But it turns out propaganda-as-entertainment wasn’t popular with audiences, and “New Normal’s” ratings grew steadily worse.
“The New Normal” was the creation of wannabe pornographer [6] Ryan Murphy, the man who brought us “Nip/Tuck,” “American Horror Story” and the world’s gayest high school [7] in “Glee.”