Why is this feminist cancer popular?

Why is this feminist cancer popular?

Is it really? Also, there's nothing quite like it, which is to its benefit.

I really don't think it is

This show is ironic as fuck, considering the main character is an unapologetic Scientologist in real life

Most people don't like conservatives and It gives them something to talk about at work.

The world would be better if these middle brow plebs weren't so ashamed of being white trash.... We could talk about a good series like American Horror Story.

Because Sup Forums is that way --->

Stealth patriarchy ad is stealthy.

I thought it was pretty decent.

It's only 'feminist' in the sense that saying women in the middle east shouldn't be stoned to death for revealing an ankle is.

>total runtime is 10 hours
>literally nothing happens
BRAVO

Characters do not exist in real life you clown.

Actually this show is a little more anti-SJW than you expect.

All the Christian Commanders and Wives are cuckolds. And it was revealed that the SJWs were in charge of burning all the porn for the Christians.

It's basically a first-wave feminist critique of second and third wave feminism.

More importantly, why do you care? You're not the target audience

Because ugly women overthink their lives to avoid facing the truth.

>Why do people like this thing I don't like?
Gee, I'm not sure you would understand the answer

It's more about religious extremism and the marriage between church and state.

It was inspired by the Iranian Revolution. And a lot of what happens in the show is more similar to events in the Middle East than in the West. Female circumcision, polygamy, theocracy, etc.

BASED MAGAPEDE. YES THIS SHOW IS ONLY FOR SJW KEKS. LIKE STAR WARS. AND STAR TREK. AND ALL OF POP CULTURE.

Whatever cunt, i meant the actress who plays the main character.

Female circumsicion is pretty rare in the Middle East and within Islam. It is however rampant in African countries. Some even Christian.

That's the book, the show exists to make out that any male authority is literally Hitler.

>popular
It had shitty ratings, no one watched it.
It just won a ton of emmys.

do you ever get tired of being a walking caricature?

it's good satire with a believable world, solid actors and a slow but well thought out plot

yet to see a good critique of this show by the far right that isn't just buzzwords and autistic screeching

They want to be oppressed.

Are you trolling?
This is an unpopular show with very small audience.
This kind of drivel has no popularity.

I'm not, I don't just blurt out the truth in public, do you?

>by the far right
Do all film and TV reviewers need to have a stated political alliance nowadays? Jesus fucking Christ.

Just point out that it's based on the subversion of middle Eastern secular democracies like Afghanistan and Iran by Islam. Agree that it's a very frightening story and that you don't want to see Islam subvert our Western liberal democracies either.

1/2
I've been trying to get into it myself, as it's been billed as "award-winning" and whatnot. I'm admittedly only a few episodes in but so far, I don't see anything particularly compelling.

It does come off as a bit SJW at times; the flashback scene in the coffee shop where the barista calls Offred and Moira "fuckin' sluts" was particularly cringeworthy for me. To be fair though, the show isn't above poking fun at itself, such as the scene where Moira goes on a tirade against Patriarchy and then concedes she needs Luke to walk her home.

The narrative and flashbacks explaining the founding of Gilead feels forced and sloppily executed in general. It feels like the show is attempting to convey the feeling of malaise and gradual erosion of normality -- and failing miserably at it. Ironically, Offred comments on this using the "boiling frog" cliche, but that isn't what it feels like at all. You go from calling Uber from the bar on a Saturday to a wannabe dystopian future where women aren't allowed to own property and being homosexual is illegal the following Monday. That isn't slowly being boiled; that's being tossed from a liquid nitrogen bath into a fucking crucible.

And that's what really kills it for me. The setting seems so forced and unbelievable at times it just breaks immersion. I'm basically being asked to believe that the Westboro Baptist Church assassinated the entirety of Congress, somehow hijacked the financial sector and the legislative system, and then creates and rules a completely different police state society out of the ashes, with a caste system, totally alien societal norms and moral expectations, and a paramilitary/secret police force, within the span of a decade. That in itself wouldn't be unbelievable if the setting were in a distant future, where generations lived and died under the regime, and normality long forgotten; but motherfucker there's a 2012 Toyota Prius parked across the street.

Trump is a jew plant to foment radical leftist sentiment in America.

2/2
The premise was dealt with in a much better way in Children of Men. Establishing the setting I think was a mistake in Handmaid's Tale; it gets too wrapped up in trying to explain implausible scenarios. Children of Men solved the problem brilliantly by just not explaining at all; you simply see through Clive Owen's eyes what it's like to live in a world where the human race knows it has come to its end, and all the horror and despair that comes with it. The rest is left to the viewer's imagination, and let's face it, your average viewer could probably imagine something more believable than the Westboro Baptist Empire.

I will probably try to run with it for a while longer; I find the premise weak but the core of the show is interesting enough. It's like some fucked up dystopian Downton Abbey or something. It's just... Fuck, my suspenders of disbelief can only stretch so far sometimes.