Episode 4.... A bonkers coen-esque future noir from the director of Utopia!!??! Yes please! http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/electric-dreams-recap-season-1-episode-4-crazy-diamond.html …
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Episode 5... I'm happy to report that the "Hoodmaker" is absolutely stellar stuff on the emotion cost of surveillance and these two episodes make the entire show worth it.http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/electric-dreams-recap-season-1-episode-5-the-hood-maker.html …
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And after two great epsiodes we get... maybe one of the most problematic episodes of television I've ever seen...http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/electric-dreams-recap-season-1-episode-6-safe-and-sound.html …
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Seriously, we need to have a giant conversation about the way race gets portrayed in sci-fi.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Read your recap, still don’t know where that episode dealt with race?
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What do you mean? The fact is it doesn't and instead uses that language to speak about midwesterners are targeted.
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Where are you getting midwesterners? It looks like the characters are from Cali or Nevada and the “bubbles” are all spread out. And though the episode should stand alone, the source material is about manufactured paranoia & control and that’s what it’s going after-not race.
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They outright say there's the safe zones are the two coasts and on the map the bubbles are in the midwest. And I know what it's going for. I'm saying what it says accidentally and overtly by positioning the fresh-faced white kid as the oppressed "terrorist"
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That's the whole problem, it's outright using race to justify that reflexive crap and it's using it in a really problematic way.
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Not race at all. As Tierney says at the beginning, the people who live in the bubbles are choosing to live free from surveillance. A lifestyle and ideology, not a race.
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I KNOW that. I know what it's trying to say. The fact that it therefore co-opts racial language for "white people who choose to live different" is the freaking offense of part.
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