Jeff K's Reviews
Standard fare wokeness
The movie essentially makes fun of preppers and "conspiracy theorists", i.e., anyone who isn't a brainwashed idiot that believes whatever the TV tells them. It paints men as monsters and idiots, and the woman as the powerful smart victim of men. Sad to see John Goodman's final years wasted on this rubbish.
Created: 07-26-2023
Woke
Seeped in woke lecturing and gaslighting.
Created: 06-27-2023
Not woke
Just a good dystopian film about hope and the will to survive. No woke propaganda to be found.
Created: 05-30-2023
Decent movie
SPOILERS
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Yes, the lead character is gay, but he's also an obese shut-in whose life was ruined because he had a relationship with his male student. His redemption comes from his devotion to his own biological child.
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This movie could be interpreted in many ways, but it has heart, good acting and good writing.
It's a little too melodramatic for my taste but still one of the better movies to come out of Hollywood recently.
Created: 05-30-2023
Mildly woke
Show does have some mild wokeness but most of it is non-egregious except for a novel form of wokeness relating to autism.
This show presents autism as a superpower. This woke autism ruins the show's ending by turning it into a farce. The actor who plays the autist must've been chosen simply for being a black woman because she has no charisma or acting ability, and it's not because she's pretending to be autistic.
The show starts off good but decays into mediocrity, contradiction and farce as it goes on.
Created: 05-30-2023
Mildly woke, overrated show.
Other reviewers have hit the major points already but one of the more insidiously Progressive aspects of this show is the fact that the protagonist is an immoral scumbag. Example: he wants info about someone, so he just goes and nearly strangles to death an innocent salesman to get it.
And then there's the mandatory woman beating the shit out of a random man because he was slightly persistent about touching a stripper, and somehow the show presents her not as the deranged violent criminal she is but as some kind of hero.
Also, the writing is mediocre, sometimes terrible, and most of the characters have the charisma of a sack of potatoes.
Created: 05-23-2023
Woke
Full of forced diversity, inverted gender roles, women-worshipping and simp men - just as you'd expect from Apple.
Plot is generic and the dialogue mediocre.
Created: 05-23-2023
Moderately woke
Plenty of forced diversity, implausible girlbossing, simping, worthless narcissistic women being treated as virtuous beings, and Christian-hating. The plot is good however.
Created: 05-22-2023
Mixed bag
Not a terrible show but it does have a fair amount of underhanded wokeness that brings it down.
Casting was clearly done for woke representation rather than merit, because some major characters have the charisma and/or acting skill of a cardboard box, but sure are "diverse". Lots of girlbossing, and implausible tiny women beating up big bulky men. Every single man in the show is subservient to a woman, except for the bad guys.
The dialogue is occasionally painfully bad, like when the girl is crying over a pool of blood where her auntie was recently murdered and nonsensically asks how many times she was shot.
The plot starts out interesting but gets more and more implausible and uninteresting as the show goes on.
Overall: not a total waste of time, but that time could be spent watching much better things.
Created: 05-06-2023
