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Top-tier sci-fi
This is one of the best contemporary sci-fi series out there. They’re working on a second season, but it’s hard to know where that will go. For now, I can say the first season isn’t woke and it’s absolutely worth watching. It also works as a self-contained story, so even if the next season doesn’t live up to it, the first one wraps things up pretty well. Highly recommended. Enjoy it!
Just a bad show
Woke? Not really. But let’s be honest, The Muppets were never exactly top-tier. This time they roll out three guests straight out of the woke mob, and they barely contribute anything beyond a few comments about the show itself. It’s insanely self-referential for something that’s supposed to feel like “let’s see if this works,” yet it mostly comes off as a parade of people who clearly paid to be there or maybe cleaned some money to get a seat. At this point, who knows? It’s genuinely hard to tell what Hollywood is even aiming for anymore. But the real low point is casting someone like Maya Rudolph and framing her as if she were genuinely appealing for this kind of show. That’s hitting rock bottom
The oposite of woke, if this is possible
Some random thoughts but it is what it is: From the doctor’s point of view, the family’s arrival is what destroys the “utopia.” Their very normality (them being healthy, functional, practical) hits him like a moral and psychological shock. They cope, improvise, and keep going, and that success forces him into an ugly comparison: it makes him start seeing his own sick wife as a burden he can’t afford. The same collapse happens in his conflict with the Countess’s camp. He comes in with established beliefs about how fighting against the strong is somehow immoral; after all this is why he chose to escape to this island. He and his wife began as pure idealists; early on you even see her judging Sidney Sweeney's character for marrying a man “damaged by war,” meaning he has held weapons and has probably killed. But reality corners him. He realizes that without weapons and the willingness to use force, life is unsustainable; and crossing that line breaks him further. By the end, their idealism is exposed as fragile, as something that only works as an escape from real life. And the film’s verdict is blunt: neither the pretentious liberals nor the pretentious philosophers are actually fit for life. The only people who endure are the family, the normal people: ready to love each other, work, adapt, and do what needs doing, without thinking too much and without turning everything into a performance or abstraction.
Couldn't make it past the second episode
As a fan of 24, I was eager to see Kiefer Sutherland in action again. I was a bit leery given I had read that it fell off after season 1 so I put it off for several years. Thought I would give season 1 a try. I got through the first two episodes and gave up. While Kiefer did a good job and I was pleased to see his character rise to the occasion, episode 2 had the governor of Michigan rounding up Muslims. They were being beaten in the streets and one of them was beaten so severely he died. Nothing like that happened after 9/11 and this was inserted to send a not so subtle message about the dangers of Islamophobia. It became obvious to me that no way was a foreign country involved or any Islamic terrorists...the bomber must be some sort of right-wing domestic group. Homeland did that in season 5 or 6 and it was so blatantly political. Hard pass.
