Kyle XY: Free to Be You and Me
Kyle XY turned into Electric Boogaloo tonight. The dance lesson with Kyle and the nameless Trager brother was cute, although it could have used a montage, like Chris Penn’s dance lesson montage in Footloose. And Kevin Bacon should have shown up at the Swing Spring Fling for a group dance scene! (There’s always room for Kevin Bacon.) And then Patrick Swayze could have barged in, muttered “Nobody puts Baby in a corner!” and saved Jessie from her evil, fake sister!
I feel Kyle’s dancing pain. I’m not a dancer – I have no groove whatsoever and usually flail around like Elaine from Seinfeld with my thumbs out, my feet kicking and my teeth biting my lower lip. I almost mastered the dance MTV’s The Grind Workout: Fat Burning Grooves several years ago, but couldn’t shake the lower lip biting.
Despite the after school special tone of the episode, it didn’t get obnoxious and preachy about discrimination and was subtle in how it characterized people who do discriminate. The guy who was a nasty jerk to the gay kids was a nasty jerk all around (slept around on his girlfriend, called dibs on the new girl). The principal, who refused to admit same-sex couples to the official school dance, was a nasty, judgmental putz all around (told Supermom she raised two vandals and a petty thief).
Basically, if you discriminate, you’re a nasty jerk. Which, I think, is true, although some are more subtle in their nastiness than others. Like Kail on Big Brother 8 – could she be a little more closed minded? I may actually dislike her more than Jen.
I can’t help but mock the Beverly Hills: 90210 aspect of Kyle XY, and Kyle’s thinkle and the occasional dinner theater caliber acting, but I do really like it. It’s refreshing to see a family on television that eats together without being rude and mean spirited to each other.
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Hilariously my girlfriend made the 90210 reference during last nights episode (i couldn’t stomach 90210 when it was on). Watching 90210 now it seems really dated, but then i remember how old it actually is.
They did take time out to bash all discrimanatory practices, which is alright with me…There was way less sci-fi on this ep than others, but i feel like thats good for the balance.