Um, I didn’t get the point of Butter. At times, it seemed like it was trying to go for political satire about right wing politics until it wasn’t. After I finished Butter, I found out that it was supposed to be a satire of 2008 presidential politics so I’m assuming it is supposed to be about the Iowa Democratic primary between Obama and Clinton–really??? Then it seemed like an outsider was trying to poke fun at Midwestern kitschy pastimes and illusions of wholeness then it wasn’t. Also so soon after Spanglish, I’m not loving the trope of the humorless, driven, cold, controlling, not one redeeming quality housewife with misplaced ambition. That trope gives the other characters permission to be openly mean, resentful and disparaging to her because of course. You can cheat on her-that is reasonable because she is cold and withholding. You can call her c**t, a word best left unused in the sewers and generally frowned upon in every circle. I appreciate swearing, but I don’t think there is an appropriate context to use it. It is as if in a politically correct world where women are supposed to be officially treated with respect, this trope is our scapegoat to release everything that is normally thought about women, but is left for online harassment. I have no idea how Butter ended up in my queue. I’m also not sure about why a precocious orphan black girl was her foil. When white male writers have a little black girl say what she thinks about white people, I’m always wondering what is going on not only because some of the terms that she uses sounds more like the thoughts of Redd Foxx than a little girl born in the twenty first century, but it seems to be more a commentary on what the writer thinks that black people think and how they live than about a character who happens to be black. Or a misplaced liberal fantasy of a community that becomes more accepting of diversity, more sophisticated and isn’t as awful as the awful woman trope believes her community is. I’m not saying that it was all wrong, but it felt like there was an agenda as opposed to characters so I could not just sit back and enjoy. The saving grace: the hilarious and perfect Rob Corddry. He is so great, and I want him in everything. I didn’t hate or love Butter. I felt meh about Butter. Definitely not a must see.