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(2/5) A 5-day Thread on Netflx’s Sex Education:

It’s not like Netflix shows by nature must shy away from employment and money: even bad-ass Steve Harrington worked at the mall in Stranger Things. But somehow, in the showrunner’s desire to liberally showcase the sexual liberation of the Moordale youth, they swing conservative about capitalism and its discontents: there are just some things we don’t talk about here. We can say Maeve is poor, and doesn’t have money to go to France or America or get her mom into rehab. But we can’t talk about underfunding the NHS, or Dr. Jean F. Milburn’s hourly rate for therapy, or Brexit, or…. I could go on.

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True Detective S4E1 recap:

Whenever one of these real-life detective shows feature something supernatural-seeming, it’s always someone using the supernatural as a cover to exact revenge.

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(1/5) A 5-day Thread on Netflx’s Sex Education:

Watching the third season of Sex Education, I had the unnerving sensation that something was deeply wrong in the world Otis, Maeve, Eric, Aimee, Adam, Rahim and Ruby, et al. Like an 80s-era Soviet sitcom, this ribald sex comedy dares not deviate from the party line. Be it Moordale in the twenty-teens or Minsk in the 80s, I am not watching a show about #sexeducation; I am watching a show about sex without capitalism.