What does secondhand embarrassment say about your own anxieties and biases?
When someone humiliates themselves on TV, you want to look away, but you can't. Designpics/Getty ImagesCringe is the feeling you get when your boss cracks a joke in a meeting and no one laughs. It’s when your kid shoots a soccer ball and it misses the net by … a lot. It’s when you watch Kendall Roy from “Succession” awkwardly rap on stage at a celebration honoring his dad’s 50 years at the helm of the family company.
Studying cringeCringe is everywhere, but it’s especially ubiquitous in movies and on TV, where it elicits winces, laughs and embarrassment in viewers. Now in its third season, the show has received an Emmy nomination and inspired a spinoff called “Jewish Matchmaking.” Throughout the show, Taparia tries to make Aparna “compromise” – in other words, settle for men she doesn’t see as worthy of her. Taparia, as well as fans of the show, have called Aparna an unrealistic perfectionist.
We’ve seen him make a grand gesture to declare his love for someone too early in a relationship – and not get an “I love you” back – or argue with his partner in front of friends at a dinner party and thought, “I’ve been there” or “I’ve seen that.” In “Indian Matchmaking,” first dates often include discussions about personal finances and the number of kids each person wants to have.
So in this way, cringe can alert viewers to their values and judgments and lead to reflections about cultural differences.
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