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That Maya character is pretty awful.


Limousine liberals are the worse. She has never done anything but benefit from nepotism.Tries to come into her fathers company and change everything because of some guilt complex.One of the worse type of hypocrites.








Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

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However, her sweater puppies were a spectacular redeeming quality. Yum!

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She can get away with many things because of those sweater puppies ;)

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Yeah, I think that was the point of that character. I'm getting back into this show after not having watched it since about 2003 or so. I think the Maya character is a parody of the self rightious. "I say liberal things to sound good and feel good even though that often times I'm a hiprocrite" kinds of people. Not to say that she doesn't believe in what she preaches. Well I hope she's a parody.

I mean she's annoying because I think from how preachy she can get, one tends to expect more from her from a moral stand point but she's as lousy as any of them. Jack, Nina, Elliot and Finch aren't as annoying because while they are lousy people, they're at least honest about it.

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Edgarg16, you're absolutely right - Maya is a parody of a champagne socialist (or limousine liberal, as you call them in America). She's called it on a few times, usually by Finch. I recall a line where she's preaching about some cause or other and she says 'Do you know what I did about it?', to which Finch replies 'bitched until your dad gave you a pile of cash?'. She was so funny BECAUSE she was so opinionated and preachy when the whole point about her character was that she had been given her cushy job because her dad was editor, and spent all her time criticising what she was being asked to do!





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