2014年9月11日凌晨，《****》评论家A.O.斯科特在一篇社论中说，成年人喘着最后一口气。

斯科特的作品追踪了美国人成年期的逐渐恶化，这是一个旨在激励年轻人的文化阶梯。这些批评涉及各种各样的话题，从严肃电视连续剧中**主角的**死亡，好莱坞改编漫画书的兴起，以及年轻人小说对老年人的影响不断扩大。即使是父权制的文化消亡也影响了他的精彩论述。

斯科特写道：

"What all of these shows grasp at, in one way or another, is that nobody knows how to be a grown-up anymore. Adulthood as we have known it has become conceptually untenable. It isn't only that patriarchy in the strict, old-school Don Draper sense has fallen apart. It's that it may never really have existed in the first place, at least in the way its avatars imagined. Which raises the question: Should we mourn the departed or dance on its grave?"

斯科特继续争论谁或者什么，如果有人或什么，杀死了成年，并解释了我们国家历史上的抵抗和对亲子关系的怀疑。一直以来，这篇文章从密苏里河跳转到蒙大拿州的广阔地区，然后来到洛杉矶，对兄弟喜剧进行猛烈的拍摄。

斯科特写道：

The bro comedy has been, at its worst, a cesspool of nervous homophobia and lazy racial stereotyping. Its postures of revolt tend to exemplify the reactionary habit of pretending that those with the most social power are really beleaguered and oppressed. But their refusal of maturity also invites some critical reflection about just what *****hood is supposed to mean.

对于那些看电影、看书或周末消磨时间、在沙发上闲逛、Netflix设置为自动播放的人来说，这篇文章是必读的。