On Our Own
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- 2022
- 1h 16m
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A new way of living?
One wag wrote feedback on the MissaX website criticizing this 2-part romance for its "Woke" content, an unfounded but increasingly common Right Wing knee-jerk reaction to almost any expression of our society's hopefully Progressive trajectory (as opposed to longing for a return to some mythical Golden Age).
The attack is off-base, as the simple and often quaint story here by scripter Maddy Burton recalls instead an attitude that largely went out with the Hippies era of the 1960s.
Laney Grey and Kimmy Kimm are new roommates who have decided to buck the trend and live a life as free spirits, dropping out from the Rat Race of meaningless work "to make a living".
Dialogue frequently criticizes Capitalism, making the show an obvious target for reactionaries who, brainwashed by Fox News and other conservative propagandists, have capsulized all our society's ills to some far-fetched conspiracy by Black Lives Matter activists out to shake up the status quo.
No, these characters merely point out the fact that "living to work" is not a healthy way of life, even in the increasingly hard on youth state of American society in the midst of increasing wealth disparity as well as the insidious movement toward the Far Right (think QAnon) end of the political spectrum. In Part 2 of this story, a new, third roommate played by Freya Parker explicitly expresses this sentiment.
So we have perhaps a beginning of a cult if not a commune, of three, all the better to facilitate the nearly instant lesbian threesome that culminates this benign show. It's a bit heavy-handed script-wise to be sure, but the fresh talent of the trio is easy to watch once the romance leads to XXX action.
The attack is off-base, as the simple and often quaint story here by scripter Maddy Burton recalls instead an attitude that largely went out with the Hippies era of the 1960s.
Laney Grey and Kimmy Kimm are new roommates who have decided to buck the trend and live a life as free spirits, dropping out from the Rat Race of meaningless work "to make a living".
Dialogue frequently criticizes Capitalism, making the show an obvious target for reactionaries who, brainwashed by Fox News and other conservative propagandists, have capsulized all our society's ills to some far-fetched conspiracy by Black Lives Matter activists out to shake up the status quo.
No, these characters merely point out the fact that "living to work" is not a healthy way of life, even in the increasingly hard on youth state of American society in the midst of increasing wealth disparity as well as the insidious movement toward the Far Right (think QAnon) end of the political spectrum. In Part 2 of this story, a new, third roommate played by Freya Parker explicitly expresses this sentiment.
So we have perhaps a beginning of a cult if not a commune, of three, all the better to facilitate the nearly instant lesbian threesome that culminates this benign show. It's a bit heavy-handed script-wise to be sure, but the fresh talent of the trio is easy to watch once the romance leads to XXX action.
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- lor_
- Jun 11, 2022
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