The sad thing is, they immediately inverted their own inversion in several ways. First, by making what could’ve been a fun love scene with a sexually dominating woman into a joke predicated on the man’s feelings of fear (not desire) and assumption that the woman was just using him to get pregnant and maintain her bloodline anyway. Not to mention the fact that later we were treated to a scene of that same female character in a Catwoman suit riding a motorcycle which, on the surface, seems to be all about Girl Boss Power but was again undermined by the completely overdone and overtly feminine makeup, hair, and costuming for her, not to mention the attribution of her son’s supposed weight problem to his mother’s professional ambitions and overall lack of warmth and affection.
I realize the writers might *think* they wrote a story about female empowerment simply by virtue of the fact that the protagonists are female and they have tremendous physical strength, but they’re just recycling the same tired old sexist tropes.
Plus, the show is just boring and trite.
Apologies to those who are enjoying it; life is short and if this show makes you happy don’t mind me. But I really, really didn’t like it.
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