So far I'm at episode 2 and I'm getting kind of skeeved out by Roxy's story. There's something just weirdly performative about having her dad be a Jewish mob boss that is bigoted towards the Irish. Basically, I'm not sure the show will handle this intersectionality. At least it sounds like she'll break away from trying to get her dad's approval, so that's encouraging.
Eve's story is...um, I guess they're trying to go for "what if God was a woman", but it feels little out of place in the general sci-fi setting. I'll have to watch more, but it's not really doing it for me. Also, it hews disturbingly close to the the "magical negro" trope and I feel like we need to move past that depiction in the 21st century. I mean, granted, Eve's the protagonist now, but she's been helping a bunch of white people so far (and getting shit for it), so it's not much of an improvement.
Tunde is the token male ally I was talking about and his story kind of runs into the complexity that it's a story written by privileged women from developed (and formerly colonial) nations about people in a country that's been ravaged by colonialism, so there's just all sorts of uncomfortable whenever his story comes to the forefront. Like, Tunde is obviously well off based on how his home is designed, definitely upper middle class if not the top 1-5%. Can he really be a good frame of reference for the impact of the revolution in a developing nation?
Tatiana's struggles are sympathetic, but I'm always leery of Western European depictions of Eastern Europe. There's some unresolved issues there. (Especially knowing she was initially supposed to be from Moldova in the novel, it just seems like such a geopolitical quagmire to be tackling, a bit overly ambitious.) As of episode two, though, she's the most justified for taking extreme actions (if she ever gets there).
Honestly, Margot is the story that has the least hiccups so far, probably because she falls so solidly into second wave feminism (straight white woman trying to get into position of power), so those issues are better hashed out at this point and not nearly as fraught with unintentional cringe. But her daughter...yeah, no, she's really grating on my nerves.
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Date: 2023-06-09 21:52 (UTC)So far I'm at episode 2 and I'm getting kind of skeeved out by Roxy's story. There's something just weirdly performative about having her dad be a Jewish mob boss that is bigoted towards the Irish. Basically, I'm not sure the show will handle this intersectionality. At least it sounds like she'll break away from trying to get her dad's approval, so that's encouraging.
Eve's story is...um, I guess they're trying to go for "what if God was a woman", but it feels little out of place in the general sci-fi setting. I'll have to watch more, but it's not really doing it for me. Also, it hews disturbingly close to the the "magical negro" trope and I feel like we need to move past that depiction in the 21st century. I mean, granted, Eve's the protagonist now, but she's been helping a bunch of white people so far (and getting shit for it), so it's not much of an improvement.
Tunde is the token male ally I was talking about and his story kind of runs into the complexity that it's a story written by privileged women from developed (and formerly colonial) nations about people in a country that's been ravaged by colonialism, so there's just all sorts of uncomfortable whenever his story comes to the forefront. Like, Tunde is obviously well off based on how his home is designed, definitely upper middle class if not the top 1-5%. Can he really be a good frame of reference for the impact of the revolution in a developing nation?
Tatiana's struggles are sympathetic, but I'm always leery of Western European depictions of Eastern Europe. There's some unresolved issues there. (Especially knowing she was initially supposed to be from Moldova in the novel, it just seems like such a geopolitical quagmire to be tackling, a bit overly ambitious.) As of episode two, though, she's the most justified for taking extreme actions (if she ever gets there).
Honestly, Margot is the story that has the least hiccups so far, probably because she falls so solidly into second wave feminism (straight white woman trying to get into position of power), so those issues are better hashed out at this point and not nearly as fraught with unintentional cringe. But her daughter...yeah, no, she's really grating on my nerves.