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joey4track ago

This season has been great so far, after that last pile of crap they tried to pass off as season 2, I am happy to see the show return to form. I'd actually say they were attacking SJW culture by showing how that white leftist lady was projecting her own sense of intersectionality injustices onto the minority character who said he didn't experience anything like that and seemed to be disapproving of her virtue signaling, not to mention the black detective seems to have respect among his peers, when usually you would have expected them to shovel in a scene where the southern white men would have been racist toward him.

LightlyToasted ago

I agree they were attacking SJW jargon in the scene w/the reporter. However, HBO gets their racist white redneck stereotypes, virtuous Native American, etc. IMO the acting and writing were really strong.

joey4track ago

To be honest I think with how prevalent this agenda/propaganda can be it's easy to see it everywhere you look but I genuinely feel like everything presented here is valid within the story. Let's not kid ourselves, the white racist redneck does exist and certainly it would be something a black man of authority/power living in the south in 1980 would face and I think they handled it properly. Also, what is so virtuous about the Native American? So far he is just an outsider war vet that lost his family and picks up trash, could happen to any race and although he does face suspicion from the community, this is also another thing that is perfectly realistic to present and nothing about any of it was over the top. My issue is when that kinda thing serves no other purpose and is clearly shoehorned in, like you see in so many other things, like Bird Box for example. I am pleased that none of that garbage is present in this season, I mean hell, even the minority main character is a republican ffs, that's subverting the narrative. I hate the forced in narratives as much as you do but you have to give a show props when it deserves it and I see no foul so far in these first two episodes. Let's not become so puritanical that we can't even address real issues like these without thinking it's all propaganda.

LightlyToasted ago

You make fair points, thank you.