Review of The Letdown

The Letdown (2017–2019)
7/10
worth watching
31 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Lots of great things - the subtle humor throughout, the nontraditional main character, the nuances, etc. the only think that really irked me about this series is the way audrey treated her husband. im a feminist and quite assertive in relationships myself, but what's up with this new trend of female characters that are condescending, disrespectful and unsympathetic to their beta male-ish partners? i really liked the jeremy character and it irked me that we as viewers were supposed to consider audrey's interactions with him as acceptable. the tides needed to turn from the pigeonholed depictions of mothers as followers of male head of households but to this?? audrey is straight up an a**hole to jeremy sometimes and that was hard to watch. would have liked this more if this didn't showcase that as being completely acceptable. made me kind of hate audrey. would love to see more female character driven movies with varying depictions of equality between the
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