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The movie is more a sketch, a trial, than a complete project. It feels like they did not think trough and are unsecure of what is going on, so they just put random ideas together. The fact that they address the pre-life period is good, now there is no direction. Still the movie is human, with people that care, clueless but caring. I did not spot any wokeness and it give a sense of humans feeling responsible even if they don't understand what is going on.

Crazy but somehow very grounded.

The film focuses on the marriage between Carrell and Fey's characters, their growth through the film as well as their dependence on each other. They are both strong (albeit, each with many flaws) and they are stronger when they are helping each other solve their problems together.
The script is crazy at times, over the top excesses of miscommunication and bad decisions made- but the heart of the film is very much grounded in real relationships, real issues and lived experiences. As a parent, there were so many details that rang so true- whether being bombarded by the kids way too early in the morning- all the way through to the husband and wife's in-jokes and their responses to the limitations in their own marriage.
Highly recommended.

It's pretty woke, but actually really entertaining and well done

I can't deny that there are definitely strong woke elements to this one, but in the end I rather enjoyed it.

Think "Being John Malkovich" but a horror version

One of my guilty pleasures perhaps, but it definitely kept me on the edge of my seat

Stupid Nothing Burger With a Side of Woke

People with money bad for no real reason, poor prostitute good, hardworking unappreciated 'artists' and service industry good. A little metoo, men bad moment thrown in. The acting is generally good and I thought this was going to be a horror cannibal type film but nope. It's not even horror nor is it funny. It's just terrible and nothing much really happens. It's just 2 hours of 'poor me nobody appreciates me' whining. Nobody would act the way these people act in this situation. Not one single person ever makes any attempt to fight back in any way. This is one of the stupidest movies I've seen in a long while.

Mostly non-woke until season 10

XL is the best version of Naked and Afraid. Having many experienced participants try to survive for a longer period of time opens up more possibilities than the standard two person Naked and Afraid. It's almost mindless entertainment, but it can be vaguely educational, in that you might learn what to do (and not do) in survival situations.

I think the producers of standard Naked and Afraid are quite woke. I mean, really, we don't want to see dudes with beards and huge breasts, naked. Really, we don't. However, XL seems okay, despite some gay and lesbian participants. Gay Jake is hilarious, after all, and lesbian Cheeny has a wicked, dry sense of humor. They don't seem over-represented.

Edit: Unfortunately, they brought in the dude with the big breasts ("trans") from regular Naked and Afraid for season 10 of XL. At least two others are gay, so it's starting to get ridiculous.

Could Of Been A Good 70's Throwback

This is a modern day 70's blaxploitation with a little sci-fi mixed in. This had potential to be good. The acting, style, dialog and cinematography are all spot on. All they had to do was make it a straightforward conspiracy based loosely around the actual events of the Tuskegee syphilis's experiments that actually happened. Unfortunately they had to go to far with it and turn it into white people conspiring to keep blacks down and criminalized. It turns all black criminals into victims who are made to be criminals by white government. If your really into the 70's era this might still be worth a watch as there is a good movie under all the preachy bs.

Over-representation

Naked and Afraid officially jumps the shark with this spin-off. And like later seasons of Naked and Afraid, the LGBT-alphabet soupers are over-represented.

The whole point of Naked and Afraid was that it was NOT Survivor: no silly contests, no competition against the other participants. It was a semi-realistic reality show that was cute in taking itself overly seriously. Now, having beaten the original concept to death, the producers tried to turn it into a Survivor style game competition. Jeff was the only participant to overtly treat it as such, but my main beef is with the entire concept, not how the participants dealt with it.

Later seasons of Naked and Afraid and now this spin-off over-represent gays and lesbians and over-highlight gay and lesbian issues. There are at least two lesbians and one gay in the participants: over-representation. The gay guy on this show said he felt negativity from other participants, and speculated maybe it was because he is gay. Maybe, but no evidence of this made it into the show, so it came off as typical SJW faux outrage: "I'm offended and oppressed. Gibs me $100K."

Skip this spin-off and watch other variants of Naked and Afraid or better yet Alone.

4 minutes into the show

Yeah, within four minutes into the show it screams woke. Just when you look at the cast of the crowd of observers. Not wasting my time on social re-endoctrination. Life is too short. Good try though 🤣

Physical in terms of sex

I didn't make it through the first episode. Therefore, take my ratings with a grain of salt.

Well-rated by most at IMDB, this show is set in the 80's with a middle aged couple still living like it's still the hippy 60's. The woman is going to be a popular TV aerobics instructor, and the husband is a professor on the way down. The first thing the couple tries to do is seduce a young female university student.

The 80's was peak AIDS scare. By the mid-80's, this sort of behavior would be both rare and usually unsuccessful. But okay, it seems like the story is set in 1981 or 1982. So, they are perhaps not rewriting history.

Food is another story element. The female star is apparently going to develop an eating disorder. Yeah, that happens, but mostly she seems to be making semi-rational choices: don't eat the donut, but then do eat the honey but then feel a bit guilty about that and not getting to ballet class. If you want to be in shape, you do need to exercise and watch what you eat, but I feel like the show will focus on the bad effects of doing this to an extreme, which is less common a problem than obesity in our current society. But again, maybe for 1981-1982 it's on target. My high school's homecoming queen around that time went into the hospital for bulimia/anorexia.

The characters were unlikable, there was nothing funny in what was billed as a comedy-drama, and putting the teen seduction-for-threesome scene first did not bode well for the series. So I bailed immediately.

Pretty cool, really

Like Voyager, this is a series underappreciated by Trek fans. The feel is not similar to Voyager, though.

I don't recall any wokeness. It was filmed after Voyager, well, except one year of overlap. Perhaps because of the backlash over woke casting decisions for Voyager, there is no Affirmative Action here. The characters/actors are various races and both men and women can be found in positions of power, but none seem forced.

I hate the intro music, but it's at least kind of anti-woke. I think the music is supposed to be heard as retro: a 'member berries song like "Africa" by Toto.

Starting around season 3 this is some of the best Trek ever. Be warned the show's final episode is a total travesty. Seriously, skip the last episode.

Unappreciated

It is not a series that all Trek fans like, but I really enjoyed it.

There is a strong but limited woke component in the Affirmative Action hiring decisions. They invented black Vulcans. They used a female captain not for any reason other than wokeness. And Chakotay is oh so annoying with his faux Native American facade. I detest Chakotay.

If you can swallow the casting decisions and basic characters, it is an entertaining series, albeit with some real stinker episodes.

Woke-free. But only because it's plot-free. And therefore fun-free. You'd get more enjoyment out of watching a jar of mayo on your counter.