Talk:House of Lies/@comment-34190692-20180923184509/@comment-28900404-20180924173708

I do like this episode, but my criticisms stem from that it's a rehashed Snow Bored from Season 1. But if I had to nitpick. Some of the things the family themselves get mad about were extremely petty. The range on which each of the lies told vary. I can agree Lisa shouldn't force them in the way she did not to lie, but a lot of the stuff they do could be solved by telling the truth. Like Lisa's comment on when Lucy gives criticism to Rita's novel stating "it's boring" and that "she doesn't need to go an extra length describing minuet details about one thing" is completely right, Lisa even comments that all writers need criticism. How is she exactly wrong there?

Or when the family is forced to state their dad's cooking isn't great (which is also wasting food when they just order take-out afterwards), again that's your job to say you don't like anything or their fault they have to keep eating it. (Funny how this one episode had the family hate their dads food just to fit the plot) or Lori lying simply to blow off taking Lana somewhere, but doesn't explain why she's not interested other than she doesn't want to. I don't see how Lisa is wrong for those kinds of things, yet somehow she is? I agree Lisa is being too forceful and that much I can agree on when changing, but it seems to focus on the fact that they prefer lying over telling the truth and are only mad simply because they can't have their way, but everything else presented I kinda get where Lisa comes from, especially since previous episodes also remedy these problems or showcase them.

The family also doesn't learn anything from Lisa's perspective either, sure Lisa does learn white lies don't hurt and I agree that forcing someone to conform to your way of thinking is wrong, even if it's a good cause. But it's more played out as "Lisa does it their way, the end" rather than trying to compromise both sides. It seems a bit one sided and doesn't explain why both perspectives could or couldn't work, it's just played off as the family getting their way and not learning a lesson. And the ending acts like the dinner scene never happened. Honestly though a lot of what I said here was just nitpicking or thinking too clearly, and as I stated I don't actually hate this episode, taking the nitpicks out aside and aside from the last sentence (which I do hold some stance on) I like it overall.