Can I replace 'exasperate' with 'angry'?

Hello everyone. I'm a non-native English speaker. I'm reading a book about the Simpsons. I have a problem understanding this sentence fragment 'Now it seemed exasperated'. I suppose that means 'it seemed angry'. Am I right?

'Season 8, which ran from October of 1996 to May of 1997, has more than one episode that doesn’t quite fit with the rest of The Simpsons, which may be why Season 8 has the feeling of a show that is winding itself down. Starting all the way back in Season 1, with a joke about cartoons being on in primetime, The Simpsons had always sent itself up along with everything else. Whether it was laughing at its own Thanksgiving parade float, describing its theme music as an “annoying tune”, quickly glancing at the fourth wall, or making jokes about the endless merchandise FOX cranked out with abandon, the show often found lighthearted ways to poke fun at itself and its success. Starting in Season 8 though, the tone of those jokes changed markedly. Where the show had once been fond of an occasional subtle nudge to let the audience know that it was aware of the absurdities of episodic television (Burns never remembering Homer, Marge reminding Bart that he hasn’t used any of his famous catchphrases in four years), now it seemed exasperated or downright indifferent. For all its great moments, “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show” is about nothing so much as the show throwing up its hands at its own audience. And when “Burns, Baby Burns” ends with a spontaneous party after a dire and rather lengthy police chase, Homer shrugs his shoulders and says, “It doesn’t have to make sense”.'