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Reviews
In from the Cold (2022)
What if Karen was actually a Russian spy?
You can tell the target audience for this show is belligerent, man-hating, wine-swilling single moms who wish they could impose their wills on everyone around them, especially the men. Because that's who the main character is, except she _can_ impose her will on everybody around her, especially the men, thanks to certain capabilities she has been given. I can't relate to that. This type of person is already irritating enough without all the martial arts and other skills.
If I have to endure being insulted in my own living room while I'm trying to relax after work any longer... what can I do? Nothing. I'll just have to cancel Netflix and do something else with my spare time.
Doubt (2008)
There is no doubt
There is no doubt that to destroy a man's life over a suspicion is vile. If the moviemakers had had any spine, they would have cast Sister Aloysius as a villain and left the moral ambiguity to the wolves.
IO (2019)
Contemplative and moody
The movie's intention is to challenge the idea that humanity must save itself by spreading to the stars. Instead, we should take a greater interest in our home planet and reinvigorate our commitment to taking good care of it.
The movie brought in mythological references that sailed right over my head. That's okay. Most things do.
I didn't mind the movie's slow, thoughtful, low-stress tempo. I kind of liked it, actually.
The one thing that really irked me was the main character's inexplicable underreaction to the sudden intrusion of a rude, entitled, and almost domineering man into her, yes, somewhat public but ultimately private world (her lab and home). I understood she was lonely, yes, but was she really so desperately lonely that she would just let anyone barge into her home, demand personal information from her, and then threaten not to leave until he got what he wanted? Was she not aware she might be robbed, killed or raped? How was this otherwise admirably self-reliant character so stupidly passive about this man? She had a plan for everything but this. This part seemed like a good setup for a teen romance novel, not a supposedly more mature meditation on our responsibility to our home planet.
It's fine.
What I really wanted to know at the end was: how are they going to make human #3?
Sex Education (2019)
Rife with feminist hypocrisy
The first season ends with high school girls standing together to defend a girl against being shamed over a picture of her vagina.
The second starts by shaming young men about masturbation. Before anyone says, "Oh, it's just humor about something everyone does," no, it's not, it's ridicule, and ridicule exclusively of boys because that is more than acceptable, it is in fact actively encouraged in feminist society. Otis' female peers were not included in the 'joke'.
Defending the sensitivity of a girl's intimate parts in one breath and then ridiculing unwanted erections and male masturbation in the next. Typical feminist hypocrisy. Disgusting.