Fake hate crimes have been a staple of American culture for years now, but the TBS teen comedy Chad decided to use the disturbing trend for comedic effect this week.
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‘Chad’ is latest Portland-filmed comedy from a ‘SNL’ veteran By Kristi Turnquist, oregonlive.com
Share: Alexa Loo, from left, Nasim Pedrad and Jake Ryan in Chad. (Liane Hentscher/Warner Media)
Portland has turned into a bit of a destination for TV comedies featuring “Saturday Night Live” veterans. The trend kicked off with “Portlandia,” co-created by, and costarring Fred Armisen, of “SNL.”
Let us now pause for the requisite observation that there are locals who blame “Portlandia” for (pick one) A) attracting idealistic newcomers who really believed that Portland was a place where young people go to retire; B) peddling an image of the city as a twee paradise for ultra-progressives; or C) accurately satirizing Portland’s tendencies to be a twee paradise for ultra-progressives.
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Nasim Pedrad stars as a desperate 14-year-old boy craving social acceptance in TBS daring cringe comedy.
Fourteen-year-old Ferydoon Chad Amani is a little jerk. He s selfish, obsessive and impatient. He weeps at the drop of a hat. He s desperate for popularity but can barely walk through a doorway without tripping over himself. He casually calls his little sister a dick and a whore in everyday conversation, and is so peevish that he demands presents on
her birthday. Worst of all, he thinks he s grown up.
He s an utter delight.
Developed for Fox five years ago before moving to TBS, the daring and ribald single-cam sitcom
Plus, how the awkward, klutzy Chad is not far from how I remember myself at that age.
Pedradâs uncanny and gender-blurring transformation into this 14-year-old train wreck nails every mood swing: the giddy delight at being in proximity to the high school bros he hero-worships, the petulance and irrational despair when he fears being denied access to their insular world. In the premiere, he makes a typically awkward first impression as freshman year begins by humble-bragging to cooler upperclassmen about sex, a subject on which Chad is obviously far from expert. As the lies escalate, heâs finally asked: âWhy are you telling us this?â