Kinda interested in this and Reddit fawning over the premiere, but that often means it's actually woke trash.
I know the show looks like it's going to be just another "racism bad" sermon in a long line of them.
Anyone watch the premiere?
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I've never watched a worse movie on HBO. It's total crap. Apparently Google is hiding all the negative reviews. I mean, even some of the better programs get negative reviews. You can't find one on this shit series. All reviews are glowing talking about how remarkable this shit is.
There really is nothing redeeming about it. Not just the woke stuff (which it's full of). It's a terrible script..over-acting, completely predictable plastic characters. The scenes that are "supposed" to be dramatic and mood-setting are just awkward and weird. The special effects and monsters are ridiculous. They play music that is just all over the fuckin' place. 20's jazz followed by modern rap, followed by old Blues..just constantly droning over scenes for no apparent reason. Tuti Fruti just started playing over a scene with a bunch of campy gay black folks dressing up in drag. This followed a scene that had the main character's dad boning some new character (can't even tell you how he stumbled into the scene)..about 5 minutes of doggy-style. No apparent reason for that random and needlessly graphic scene. It's hard to explain the level of failure every part of this show is.
And, yeah, the racist stuff is just so inane. In this scene I just watched a black lady keep changing into a white lady because this contrived "white wizard" (not KKK..just your normal run of the mill wizard like Gandalf I suppose) stole her soul and now has her meta morphing like a butterfly (you just have to except the freaky premise and theory the wizard gives that conveys rationale for it all) . Her original black for awhile then white..then black. Always when she's white there are all the White Privileges just thrown in her lap.
For example, the first time she turns white she's running down the street in a black neighborhood bumps into this young black boy and knocks popcorn out of his hand. The cops just coincidentally pull up at that exact moment and start beating on the black kid. Asks the now "white woman" if "that animal hurt you". It's so fucking insane.
The worst part, I have to watch it with my wife (who seems to love it for some reason) and pretend I like it. I'm the best fucking actor in the whole room.