Okay, so I have a dysfunctional relationship with contemporary television, mainly that I refuse to pay to watch it. Generally, I get my network and cable fix through Ye Olde Internet, so when I heard that one of the most talked about (at least in my circles, anyway) shows would be posted on hulu.com, I made a little squeak of joy.
Not to plug an internet site or anything, but if you haven’t heard of hulu.com, then there’s something seriously wrong with your Popular Culture filter.
Now, if you’re unfamiliar with The League it’s basically a sitcom about a much-loved, but oft cloaked-in-mystery past time of the American male: Fantasy Football.
You, my fine-feathered male friend, need to be watching this show. The writing is superb, from jokes about women having vaginal hubris to moments about friends being “Eskimo Brothers“. This show will make you laugh–at least, that is, if you are a man. I say this because I am not a man and was keen to notice that all of the married men were unhappy to the point of suicide because they are married to these obnoxious (though hot) sex-withholding bitches. The institution of marriage is portrayed as a second childhood where boy-men are only allowed out of the house because their wife-mothers give them permission. There is one exception to this rule, but the “cool wife” has her foibles, too.
Women will not like this show because it depicts them in a very negative light. Not only are the stock characters’ wives awful people (not saying, b/t/w that the guys are not horrible people as well, because they are, but they’re at least funny), but the non-central female characters are just depicted as sex holes. There are also a lot of references to porn, sports, and ways in which women generally are not as good as men. Steer your female loved-ones away from this show because once they see it, they will disapprove of your watching it, and much like the show satirizes, you will be forbidden to do something you love to do in front of her. But, such is life in Marriedland, apparently.
In addition, you should not allow your wife or girlfriend watch The League because then she will learn all of your secrets: how you really talk about women, what you really think of your significant other’s body, and the body of your friends’ ladies’, where you go for an emergency porn break, etc.
In one scene, a character makes a call from the bathroom, and the recipient of the phone call notices that his buddy is shitting while he’s talking on the phone. The friend then justifies this because he says that the toilet is the only place he gets to be alone. Many men will identify with this, and I’m sure you don’t want your wives and girlfriends to catch on to the unfortunate fact that you’re in there so long by choice. Like I said, this show gives away some of your secrets, and we all know how harmful that can be, especially to those of you who actually live with a female and have them watching your every move.
So guys, check out The League, but not on Family TV Night.
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Megan graduated with an MFA from Bowling Green State University where she was an assistant fiction editor for Mid-American Review. Her short stories have appeared in The Licking River Review, Red Cedar Review, and are forthcoming in EDGE.
She can be reached at ayersmegan@yahoo.com. 
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