What’s Aged the Worst?
Door-to-door selling; donut-and-cigarette dinner; Mamet’s politics; racism; Hyundai insult
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- Inviting an unknown salesperson into the home feels culturally dated, though phishing and targeted sales emails pursue the same vulnerable human impulse by new means.
- A dinner of doughnuts, coffee, cigarettes and liquor is criticized as unhealthy, then nostalgically defended as a once-possible lifestyle.
- Identifying as a Mamet fan has become difficult amid his increasingly conservative public politics and diminished cultural position.
- The racist language and stereotypes are troubling but defended as accurate to these characters; later stage productions reportedly removed some anti-Indian language.
- Blake’s Hyundai insult conflicts with Moss actually driving a Buick.