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On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better

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Sound reasons aren’t just more opinions or the original opinion reiterated. For example if I said, “He’s a loser,” you asked why, and I said, “He has lame ideas and is stupid,” I haven’t given very sound reasons, I’ve just heaped on opinions.

BBC One - Am I Being Unreasonable?". BBC. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022 . Retrieved 24 September 2022. The moment that Lenny Rush found out he was in the running for a Bafta, he was in a hospital bed, recovering from spinal surgery. “That wasn’t a good mix,” he says, “because my mum went, ‘You’ve been nominated’ and I went …” He pretends to punch the air in triumph, then mimics extreme pain. “Aargh!” He laughs. In May, he won the TV Bafta for best male comedy performance for his role as Ollie in the BBC series Am I Being Unreasonable? as well as two Royal Television Society Programme awards in March. The show has, says Rush, “changed my life”.

The book is full of interesting examples. Theater etiquette itself (think not clapping in the middle of a performance) was invented out of whole cloth by the Victorians. It served to distinguish the "civilized" behavior of colonizers from the ecstatic participation sometimes found in the performance art of colonized people. Kirsty Sedgman shows how power dynamics and the social biases involved have resulted in a wide acceptance of what people should and shouldn't do, but they create discriminatory realities and amount to a societal fa�ade that is dangerous for genuine social progress. From taking the knee to breastfeeding in public, from neighbourhood vigilantism to the Colston Four-and exploring ideas around ethics, justice, society, and equality along the way-Sedgman explores notions of civility throughout history up to now. Filming took place in 2021 at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol and on location in Gloucestershire. [4] The trouble is, what’s ‘reasonable’ to one person is outrageous to another. Is it okay to let children play in the garden while others are working from home? To do your makeup on a train, or recline your seat on an aeroplane? What’s the right way to breastfeed? To protect your neighbourhood? To protest against injustice and oppression? In a world where we all think we’re being reasonable, how can we figure out what’s right? BAFTA Television 2022: The Winners". 29 March 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023 . Retrieved 1 August 2023.

Hulu buys BBC comedy-thriller Am I being unreasonable?". Deadline. 21 February 2023. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023 . Retrieved 21 February 2023.Apparently kindred spirits … Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli in Am I Being Unreasonable? Photograph: Alistair Heap/Boffola Pictures The episode follows events from the previous episodes from Jen’s perspective. She had lost her job and had to move to a new town with her son. She works as a housecleaner for an old woman who confuses her for the old cleaner, Katya. At her son’s first day of school she meets Nic, and is grateful when she helps her. She looks her up online to see pictures of her with Dan, and is surprised to find Dan on Tinder. She records the evidence and calls Dan out for cheating. She invites herself to Nic's house to tell her about Dan, but is surprised when Nic tells her of her affair with Alex. Still, she admires Nic, buying the same coat as her and watching her wedding video. BAFTA Television 2023: The Nominations & Winners". 16 March 2023. Archived from the original on 31 May 2023 . Retrieved 1 August 2023.

The closest character to himself … Rush as Morgan, with David Threlfall in Dodger. Photograph: NBCUniversal International Studios/BBC Am I Being Unreasonable Gets Second Series". Comedy.co.uk. 28 October 2022. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023 . Retrieved 21 February 2023. So this is not to say that Sedgman wants us to abandon reason. She is the first to admit: the ability to improvise an acceptable way to behave in a novel social situation is an irreducible requirement of our ability to live together at all. We all make choices every day, trying to be "reasonable". And some rules are necessary for some people to be included in public life at all (think about rules to aid people with disabilities). The problem arises when the use of the word becomes unmoored from the actual social good. We should be skeptical, Sedgman thinks, of appeals to common sense. We should interrogate how such norms actually came about, the purpose they are actually serving, and what really justifies them, if anything. Examining an unexamined appeal to common sense often reveals that the driving force is merely the interests of the powerful.BAFTA Television 2023: The Nominations & Winners". 16 March 2023. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023 . Retrieved 1 August 2023. Faber is to publish Kirsty Sedgman’s ‘timely and thought-provoking’ book on human behaviour, On Being Unreasonable. Ritman, Alex (29 March 2023). "Kit Connor, Kate Winslet Among Winners of Royal Television Society Program Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023 . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Cooper was nominated for best female performance in a comedy programme, Rush for best male performance in a comedy programme, and the programme for best scripted comedy at the British Academy Television Awards, announced on 22 March 2023. [15] Year Daisy May Cooper's new comedy-thriller being filmed in Bristol". Bristol Post. 1 November 2021. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023 . Retrieved 21 February 2023.

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