6/10
Promising start, terrible results
7 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Wonder Egg Priority is a disappointing grab bag of "woke" sentiment without the smallest shred of understanding. WEP Project wields victims and marginalized groups as a sledgehammer to appeal to anyone willing to watch, just so long as you don't peer beneath the surface. As a result, what starts off as an interesting and evocative exploration of grief, mental illness, and suicide quickly becomes a mansplained fantasy where all girls are just a little crazy and really want to sleep with older men. Especially if those older men are obvious writer stand ins. Then the 14year olds REALLY want to sleep with them. But if you're a 14year old girl who wants to sleep with a 30yr man you probably brought it upon yourself if you got abused and/or killed yourself. Its absolute drivel. However, apologists will scream "look over here" and point at an admittedly well handled plot involving transgender teens. And really, thats the shame of it, for each of the woke tropes WEP Project haphazardly included theres one handled extremely beautifully for every three mansplained away. WEP Project also botched production resulting in delays they tried to hide with an unplanned recap episode in the form of episode 8, which caused other issues including an ultimate delay of the as of yet unreleased final episode, episode 13, which they have since renamed Special Edition for no other reason but to continue to act as if this was planned. A sad end for an otherwise interesting endeavor.
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