No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. →
On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.
Having recently watched Jinn and more recently watched the second season of Dark, my ongoing tour of international Netflix shows continues this weekend with Leila, the first episode of which is sort of a mix of The Handmaid’s Tale and Orange Is the New Black but with more every day moments of routine sadistic debasement.
While we are informed that no animals were harmed during the making of the show, they do put a crying baby in a cage the size of a pet carrier, make one woman marry a dog in order to reinforce the place she holds in this racist, eugenicist patriarchy, and make the women roll around in the discarded remnants of the men’s lunch.
This is all in the first episode.
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Originally published to write.house by Bix Frankonis. Comments and replies by email are welcome.