Oh good. A Hollywood liberal is doing a sitcom about a church. What could go wrong?
With NBC’s popular comedic sit-com “Parks and Recreation” heading into its seventh and final season, lead actress Amy Poehler’s next project is one conservative Christians probably won’t welcome.
Deadline Hollywood [1] broke the news Oct.17 that Poehler and “Parks and Recreation” co-executive producer Aisha Muharrar are re-teaming together to co-write a new series for NBC. The currently untitled new series will be centered around “a young, agnostic woman who inherits a church and the crew of strong-willed characters who make up her new community.”
A.V Club [2] described the church goers as “Colorful” (Read: eccentric and/or stupid with a fair dose of hypocrisy thrown in). It’s been a long time since Hollywood produced a TV show in which religious characters weren’t villainous hypocrites or hopelessly naïve kooks. One need look no further than ABC’s controversial 2012 series G.C.B (originally titled Good Christian B*tches), which was cancelled after just 10 episodes over its mockery of respectable church-going women on Sunday who become lusty, gossip crazed rivals the rest of the week.
A staunch liberal, Poehler will probably take similar liberties with the “colorful” church goers of the new show. While the denomination of the church hasn’t been disclosed yet, Poehler herself was raised Catholicisn’t shy about deriding her old faith. In one “S.N.L” skit [3], she made fun of “Catholic politicians for trying to restrict the use of birth control.”
It hasn’t yet been determined if Poehler will solely have the executive producer and writer type role or if she will star in her new show like she does in “Parks and Rec.” Still she can do enough damage even if it is just the former. Poehler has used her previous shows “SNL” and “Parks and Recreation” as platforms to sell the liberal agenda under the guise of comedy. On them she has sold Obamacare [4], hyped feminism and promoted gay themes and abortion.
One thing that’s clear is that Poehler doesn’t take faith seriously. She herself has said [5] that “Some people go to church to feel in touch with that creative force that some people call Good … So if the stage is my church, improv is my religion …” That’s one religion conservatives ought to avoid.