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Now, the series is back on Fox after a year off the air, and it’s almost as fascinating as it’s ever been. Because in 2017, ABC canceled the show after its sixth season, and it became a political football all the same, after many suspected the show had been canceled due to Allen’s support for Trump. They were insulated in a way that Archie Bunker and company never quite were.ĭid the Baxters’ isolation from true political consequences matter? Not even in the slightest. Almost as many episodes were about mundane family arguments as they were about big political fault lines.įor all that Allen and former showrunner Tim Doyle - who oversaw the series from season two to season four and shifted it into more political territory - wanted Last Man Standing to be a new All in the Family, the issues that Mike and the rest of the Baxter clan argued about rarely impacted them in any real way. It was a show about a family who, at the end of every day, still loved each other.
Though the views of Mike Baxter, Allen’s character, were more centrist than those of the man who played him, its depiction of intergenerational conflict between Mike and his daughters (and sons-in-law) got at something compelling about a generational divide between (mostly white) parents and children - a divide that few other TV shows even attempted to tackle.īut though the show broached political topics and let Mike wave his conservative flag, its focus was almost never on politics. Last Man Standing was one of the few shows on television to feature a politically conservative character as its protagonist. One Show Explains the World We Now Live In: ABC’s Last Man Standing
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