allison_oaks

I liked this show until about season 6, then they got all involved in gender ideology and preaching about how acknowledgement of a girls sex is "oppressive" as if calling a girl by the proper pronouns is the reason why girls are oppressed instead of the bull$hit gender roles FORCED on them simply BECAUSE they're girls. 🙄 They actually implied that a girl liking stereotypically masculine things makes her a "they/them" instead of a perfectly normal girl with a wide range of interests. Regressive and stupid narrative. A girl can wear anything, like anything, and do anything she likes AND STILL ACKNOWLEDGE SHE'S A GIRL! We don't choose to be female, but we can choose how we live our lives and that doesn't make us anything other than what we naturally are. FFS.

They never consummated their marriage. Arthur was sickly and frail when they married and was unable to "preform" and Catherine attested to this under oath multiple times until the day she died. This series is making one of the female powerhouses of history a liar for no reason other than to add unnecessary sex scenes. I understand this is based on a book, but the book is based on the life of a real woman. Why they saw the need to cut her short is beyond me........................................................................................................................................................................................................

I read the book years ago and found it charming. This is just... Awful. Disturbed, uninteresting, and just plain bad. Coraline on the book was clever and likable, this Coraline is a whiney brat with no redeeming qualities. The animation is disappointing, considering it was made by the makers of A Nightmare Before Christmas, jerky and unimpressive for so many years of work. It doesn't follow the book in any meaningful way. I regret watching this movie.

They're upset this movie was sorely needed, and they see women trying to protect themselves from violence as "playing victim" when it is exactly the opposite. More women need to be proactive about their own safety from the violence of men. If they feel so personally offended, you have to ask yourself why? If they're not violent and a threat to women, why take this so personally? I think we know why.

Women taking action and talking about the truth on male violence against us is bravery, it's not talked about enough, I'm glad this movie was made. And the fact it's making men mad, means it's done its job. Women are tired of being raped, abused and murdered indiscriminately by men. It needs to end.

Terrible, cliché writing.

Not scary. Not entertaining. Just boring and disappointing.

Not amusing, not entertaining, not scary.

Just obnoxious and pointless.

This has to be the worst season of AHS yet.

I know Aronofsky is going for a God vs. Mother Earth allegory, and I absolutely agree with that. And as with God and Mother Earth, and are parallel to patriarchy vs. Womankind. Patriarchy just takes, takes, takes, and expects women to give more and more until they are literal dead husks. The movie perfectly represented how: men ignore women's boundaries, people don't listen to women even when they're being perfectly rational, men see women as sex objects, men prioritize other men over the women they supposedly love, men see their children as their property, men disregard and abuse mothers, men use up women and then move on to the next one to do the same all over again. And even despite all women's efforts, men still come out on top and continue oppressing.

Of course there is a lot more to unpack, but I'll stop there. God vs. Earth or men vs. Women, this movie was spot on in the neverending battle against patriarchal oppression, divine or not.

Half-truths and a lot of sexism. I felt that a lot of this was just thinly veiled homophobia and misogyny.

Why do the men in this show age and get real wrinkles, but the women are perpetually gorgeous 30/35 year olds (even as grandmother's)??? I like this show, but ffs, stop with the perfect wrinkle-free, hairless, flawless Viking women. They are warriors, mothers, and mammals. They would have scars, post-pregnancy bodies, and hair. Stop this nonsense.

I felt I needed to suspend by belief for a lot of "coincidences" that just happened to happen in a convenient way. The writing was mediocre and most of the characters were very 2-dimensional. No deep backstories, no motivations really explained, characters made odd decisions you know where just there in the script as a cheap plot device. This is also a great propaganda show for the Nationalists in Sweden, not showing any liberal or secular Muslims, just these extreme views of Islamists and ISIS. It was not nuanced, it was full-on scare tactics. I feel in our particular political climate, this show will embolden more nationalists. Not something anywhere in the world needs now, or ever or that matter.

And on a side note, I watched this and could not relate to ANY of the female characters. Not one. I knew without looking this was directed and written by men. I could tell it was men writing what they *think* women would do instead of writing what women would *actually* do. Again mediocre writing.

So all in all, vaguely entertaining in a can't-look-away way, but it was problematic to say the very least.

This season is disappointing and ridiculous. Badly written, lore/history accuracy just thrown out the window, cheap props, subpar acting... By the last three episodes I was just staring incredulously at the TV, annoyed. I actively regret watching it.

The synopsis says this series follows a group of friends through their life experiences in Chicago, sounds fun right? But every episode is about different people and has very little continuity or relation to the last story arc. This show is mostly random. One moment focusing on a couple starting a family, then a lesbian couple (that in no way knows the family), then a narcissist artist (that in no way knows the family or the couple).... I didn't dislike the show, I just don't see the point. I might have even been 'good' if the director and writers had been able to focus on one thing or one subject for more than 1 episode. You cannot have a show like this, one that reflects the lives of 'normal' people, and expect to get good character development in 30 minutes. It just doesn't work well and feels a bit shallow. But again, it was almost enjoyable and I did watch all 8 episodes, so I must not be all bad. To each their own.

It's also listed as 'comedy' while in no way was this show funny. It's a realistic drama.

There's maybe 1 or 2 instances per episode where I let out a very slight chuckle. But the other 99.9% of the show is just two 20-something loser girls failing completely at life. They can't even function on a basic human level! They just smoke pot and go to their terrible jobs and be generally irritating. I was forced to watch it at a friend's behest. For some reason I cannot fathom, she sees this as empowering. Showing women acting like idiots and failures is not empowering. I literally could not sit through any more of this crap after the 4th episode. I got up and left, it was THAT bad.

2/10 is too generous.