W_Z wrote:
the show took a bit of a detour with last night's episode mostly focusing on a light parody of hollywood culture. nice "bound" reunion with gina gershon and joey pants (who looked like he didn't want to be there, actually)...and meg tilly shows up.
don mancino is gay, which he wrote into the show that had a warmth, the two leads falling in love as teens. but this episode seemed to be more politically driven, bringing back chucky's kid "glen" which is now "glen or glenda"...a split twin seed that carries non-binary pronouns. they actually explicitly talk about it. i'm sure the episode will be lauded by internet blogzines but to me it was tacky compared to the love story between the two lead characters (who were not in this episode, as it focused solely on jen tilly/tiffy's storyline).
the actor who plays both parts is extremely good, but the implications of "you deserve to die if you don't get our pronouns right" clangs with the rest of the show's nihilistic nature. we're not supposed to care about who deserves to die, because there are children that die in the show, too. so it muddles the message, and continues to point to the very obvious message that if you keep hammering this culture down people's throats, they're just going to double down on their own feelings (now known as discrimination, bigotry and phobia).
the episode did have some laughs, though.
gershon looks awful though. she was the definition of smoking hot in the 90's.
I've liked the series as a whole so far. I made it about 10 minutes into last night's episode, and I noped out.
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Darkside wrote:
Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)