I recently watched the HBO crime / detective series "Mare of Easttown" as it was reviewed highly and I still give HBO a chance, as there was a time when everything HBO produced was gold, and surely there are still a few of those talented people still working there.
It's a very average "true crime" type of series, but the part that really confused me was the writing. It's so obviously written by millennial feminists--only it's not.
It's the story of a mopey single mom strong brave woman police detective who has one lesbian child in an interracial relationship and another who committed suicide, she gets briefly suspended from the force (but never punished) for committing a felony, gets her partner killed by her out of control behavior. Falsely accuses her ex husband of weird sex stuff. Plays 2 guys at the same time. Curses a lot. She basically just goes through life leaving carnage everywhere she goes, but manages to make herself simultaneously the victim and the hero. Lol, ok. The plot could have been ripped from any number of old ROK articles.
At the end my thought was wow, what an utterly feminist and Jewish narrative. So I looked up the writing, to confirm my biases....Huh? Written by a man. So I looked up his early life. A Catholic male writer. Brad Inglesby What The Heck?
There's a bunch of weird and whiny parts, a fair bit of crying, a black police chief in a rural town, a bunch of people behaving weirdly and irrationally, some ultra-feminist bizarre rape fantasy stuff (a guy who kidnaps girls and keeps them in a room for a year), it's just full of extreme feminist tropes. If this is the kind of stories straight white Christian men are now penning, then that is perhaps the most disturbing lesson of this whole series.
I mean how does one explain that? Is he using his name for the credit but having feminist lesbians write the actual script? Is this actually the result of a straight white Christian male's thought process? Is it actually some hidden redpill narrative? I don't know, but it certainly confused me.
It's also confusing that she is a public official / authority figure but she never wears a uniform. It took me most of the series to realize all the townfolk are calling her by her first name "Hey Mare" when I thought they are all calling her "Mayor". I mean who knows their local detective? And calls him/her by first name? Whatever.