Hardly a month after being placed into a conservatorship, the singer inked a deal to appear on the CBS show. A decade and a half later, the stunt is still complicated.
have pointed out since the series ended, at best, Barney’s actions are often incredibly misogynistic. At worst, they’re rape by deception. In “The Bracket,” one of the women who Barney has wronged is on a revenge mission, sabotaging several of
his attempts to bed more. At one point in the episode, Barney shows the gang a scrapbook full of photos he’s taken mid-coitus, photos at least most of the women don’t know exist. Later, Barney says he’s pretty sure he once “sold a woman.
The show benefitted too; Bays said in 2014: “By golly, she put our show on the map. It can’t be overstated. Britney Spears rescued us from ever being on the bubble again.” But watching these episodes back, it can’t help but feel like Spears ultimately lost more than she won.As we learned during Spears’ more recent conservatorship battle, these years of her life sure sounded like a living hell.
Maybe Abby wasn’t the role Spears was born to play, but it might have been the perfect part for her at the moment. No, the manipulation of Abby is not some meta-commentary on the real-life manipulation of Spears. It’s barely even a coincidence. It was just a moment where the only role anyone could imagine Britney Spears playing was a woman who ultimately gets punished when she acts out of turn. And to hear the men involved tell it, it’s a role she really, really wanted to play.
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