Another liberal feel good story
Let's do a thought experiment: Separate all the characters from KH into "good guys" and "bad guys." Dr.Hook, Mrs. Druse, injured artist guy, most of the lady doctors, mentally "challenged" orderlies, etc. = Good. Steg, his girlfriend, the crazy torturer doctor, the mill owner, etc = Bad.
Now, assuming this was set in current day America, who did these characters vote for in the last Presidential election?
Obviously, this is somewhat influenced by your own political feelings, but also to a large degree by what the writers intended. What you know of these characters is what the story told you. If Steg had a dog and a cat at home that he was really nice to, we wouldn't know it because we weren't told about them, right?
If Mrs. Druse was a secret white supremacist, we don't know because the writers didn't tell us. The point is that what we think about the characters and the story is what the writers want us to think. Which brings me to the main point: While I liked it overall OK, it sometimes feels like a lot of movies these days are written for the sole purpose of convincing the liberal artists behind them, as well as the liberals in the audience that they really ARE the good guys.
They seem to be frantically trying to reassure themselves, "We're good... We're right!... Conservatives are evil!" They seem so subconciously defensive about it. In this one, they seem afraid to even tell the audience about their ridiculously biased world view until the last episode. Like they're afraid people are so tired of the old "Mean, evil (and of course incompetent as well) corporate boss doesn't care about people at all; only money" storyline would make people tune out if they reveal it too soon. Of course this presumes that big rich corporations ARE predominantly run by conservatives, which is increasingly shown as another liberal delusion.
I will admit that the story had some up-front religious allegory, even literal lifting of biblical story, but it was limited to the "good" Jesus stuff, not the "Bad, judgemental" religious stuff. (By the way, not all us conservatives are religious.)
It's just so over the top. They say to themselves, WE were for child labor laws, WE are the noble, open minded ones who believe in ghosts and spiritualism, THEY are blind fools who can only believe what their machines or their crazy god tell them. The RIGHT tried to stop labor reforms about exit doors and fire extinguishers. WE had to champion the rights of The Worker by establishing Labor unions.
Yeah, Hollywood keep telling yourselves we'd all be in Hell if it weren't for your noble causes. Those of us with a brain can actually do the research ourselves, now that there's more information available than just what Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather want us to know. Ho, Hum; your stories are getting a bit stale and predictable, which is a good part of the reason people aren't watching them as much anymore.