I really like parapolitical weirdness and am also generally pretentious as hell.in regard to art in general. Ask me what I think about Andy or whatever (he’s a whole town and a beacon of light)

  • graymess [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    Hey, why did they need to make that one white lady disguise herself as a horrible Japanese businessman stereotype for multiple episodes as a big twist reveal that she didn’t actually die off screen? That kind of sucks and I stopped watching the show after that.

    • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]@hexbear.net
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      It was supposed to be a parody of soap operas doing both of those exact things. One, bringing back a ‘dead’ character, and two making it very obvious that someone is disguising themselves as someone they clearly are not, sometimes in a bizarre or racist way. The Bold and the Beautiful did that again in 2022. The concept didn’t really change, just the context that the entire show is built around those soap opera tropes and aesthetics. I can see the argument that they didn’t really need to make her a Japanese man though and didn’t need to lean into the racist part.