S06E01 - Joan Is Awful


This was a trip. Really good episode.
Selma Hayek is awesome as usual.

Loved the way she said: ComPUTA. So funny.

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So within the first five minutes we have a man in a skirt, a bisexual main character who wears the pants in the family, has a gay ex, and an Indian boyfriend, talk of carbon footprints, and only one straight character in the whole production. Distractingly woke. Not going to get far into this season.

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shut the fuck up you homophobic fuckhead

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Has nothing to do with "homophobia", loser. It's about being taken out of the story by the conglomeration of wokeisms.
But just keep up with the knee-jerk ad hominem lies. They're all you have.

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I agree. I'm fairly open minded and believe in the spirit of the age and so forth, but man, they are force feeding us with this shit. It is like deciding that mentally disabled people are underrepresented and start churning out movies where everybody is a rainman, and then actors with high IQ failing to find a role, and canceling people, because they repressed somebody with their high IQs. @meToo: "He called me a pinhead once!"

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shut the fuck up you homophobic fuckhead

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Exemplary work but you haven't used the words basement or incel yet, you keeping those in your locker for now?

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Wokeism is homophobia in disguise.

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I don't disagree with the notion of an overly exaggerated and unrealistic inundation of representation of exceedingly small minority groups across the spectrum of all forms of content (I mean, seriously, it's ridiculous, and its every-freakin'-where, although it's a trend that will wane with time like any fad, because that's all it is to most of them: a fad), but...

1) its fiction, so you should be able to get past it (since when does fiction need to accurately represent reality--every story is an alternate universe) and 2) it's too bad if you can't because this was a terrific episode with a social commentary on our own reality that hit the nail on the head in a way very few other content offerings even attempt to. Don't let things have power over you.

So, I say well done, Charlie Booker... as usual, well done.

Despite episode 1 contributing to the current ridiculously exaggerated overabundant presence of extremely small minority groups.
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Within 5 minutes of the second episode starting we have another mixed wayce couple, some waycism and a reference to police waycism. Later on there's a third dose of waycism and said victim of waycism also calls out sexism. Credit to wokeflix for pulling out all the stops on this one

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Go watch a Trump rally

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Bisexual main character with a gay ex? What are you talking about?

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I just finished this episode. Joan was bisexual? Who was her gay ex? Which Joan are you referring to? Who cares if she has an Indian boyfriend? Her ex (who I didn't think was gay at all) was white, and I'm pretty sure the 2 male partners in the show was pretty hetero depiction of relationships.

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Yeah, but as it was so obviously woke it was somehow funny. As you say, all these wokeisms were packed in the first minutes and then it became really enjoyable.

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The concept was clever and the acting was great, especially from Hayek.
I'm surprised Netflix let themselves be mocked like that.

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I pictured the same "deepfake" actress that played the lawyer when I saw the original, that's how good AI manages to be!

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"I mean, doesn't my asshole have any rights?"
"They're sticking Georges Clooney's head on a Thomas The Tank engine reboot"
"Mona Giovanni...Javadi... Whatever, and the whole strawberry machine...Streamberry"

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I thought it was just OK and could have been executed better. The concept was interesting as it seems like a true reality with all the AI buzz.

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Just watched the first episode. Nope, not for me. It's like a comedy now. The acting, the characters and worst of all, the generic, godawful needs-more-marimba "funny" background music. So far away from the sinister and gritty first UK season. Does it get any better?

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This was the best episode, by far. Best acting, best concept, best tie to real technology (and future technology.)

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I don’t care for this episode. White women are victims. They are not awful. The are a product of despicable white men that have mistreated them for generations.
I have happy to see this white non Jewish woman interact with Arabs. I was hoping negros myself, as I find this very sexy, but in conclusion I deemed this episode to be disrespectful towards women and lacking in hatred towards white heterosexual men.

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Rewatch it. The two heterosexual characters, Krish, her current boyfriend; and her ex-boyfriend (I forgot his name), are portrayed as impotent. Krish is as embarrassed as Joan as he watches her complain about how bored she is with him to her therapist. He is further emasculated when he sees her re-connect with her former boyfriend. Her former boyfriend is literally rendered impotent when he can not perform - when Joan decides to get back together with him - because he is so concerned about the whole viewing public watching him. They also show the ex-boyfriend taking a dump in his hotel toilet which only serves to make him look like sh*t. No other plot purpose for that.

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@Porsche911: You're either a juvenile troll or a brainwashed feminist bigot.

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Loved the way she said: ComPUTA. So funny.


Actually, it was "quam-puta", a joke on the quantum computer.

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Yes, I know.

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You typed it wrong though.

Good joke, haha

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