First up it's a comedy about an inexperienced feminist journalist who 'is forced' to get a job in the porn industry. She, of course, knocks it out of the park and discovers a little about herself, and humanity, along the way. It's got Harvey Keitel and Diedrich Bader in it under the talented Elizabeth Gillies's lead.
It's a complete send up of the tropes we, around here at least, generally associate with women gaming journo types and yet still manages to come off as a light hearted situational comedy.
I'm not sure if the community will take to it well enough but it's far better than the SVU "They levelled up" episode from almost a decade ago and better than anything to be written or produced by the anti-Gamergate side before or since.
Just a joshing jab at everything in the opinion pieces industry at the moment.
Share your thoughts below.
Lmao. Still a more honorable trade than her previous line of work.
I wonder where “literal prostitute” rates among all professions in public trust. Journalist is now dead last, behind politicians.
Why would I watch this instead of something good?
You shouldn't.
Just knowing it exists in case anyone brings it up is enough.
I certainly haven't watched any Disney Star Wars after Obi-Wan Kenobi but am aware of it existing.
I haven't even touched most of the games being touted as good or bad around here but I know that they exist and what the problems are with them.
This exists, like 4B, but you don't need to know anything more about it.
I haven't looked into new media since Rogue One basically, so all this shit drops right off my view. You might be right though, keeping track of horrid leftist propaganda might be useful. Then again, there's no one in my real life I'd have to worry about any of this with.
It looks like it's going toward the other extreme of normalizing degenerate porn.
It could certainly be asserted that it's putting forward the porn industry in a lighter entertaining manner.
There are more rude gags in There's Something About Mary and that's 26 years old but it's a light hearted romp in a similar vein.
It wasn't a PR campaign for the porn industry though.
Sounds like a typical 'empowerment' (or whatever phrase parallels 'coming of age') comedy, just with a premise adjacent to the presstitute joke. Of note, the protagonist merely gets employed by a porn magazine. It doesn't seem that she sells out her body as one might guess.
From imdb:
I only saw the first 15 minutes of it but it seemed like a perfectly normal late 80's/early 90's set-up for a payoff for the lead.
I might get around to seeing it all at some point but I don't expect a Working Girl or Thelma and Louise movie when it's said and done. Perhaps, at a big push, a Clueless copy but it is what it is.
Semi-Gamergate relevant.
The lead is playing against some kid online and has a great putdown within the first 10 minutes, worth it for that alone :)
Haven’t seen Tubi’s original programming but I do use it because they have a large library of older shows. Is their original programming good? Outside of the recommendation?
I honestly couldn't tell you. A friend who knows what I'm into brought it up on their TV and we caught the first quarter of an hour together. It looked perfectly well made for a light comedy.
I don't know anything more of Tubi's output, but it's certainly something you could have on in the background and not be offended by. If the rest lives up to that standard it's innocuous enough, but best get a better idea from someone who watches it.