I’ve been watching Supergirl. Probably the most transparently anti-Trump show around. In S4 (starting Oct 18) the season arc revolves around an anti-alien terrorist leader getting finessed out of prison and appointed director of Bureau of Alien Affairs by the Trumpy new potus.
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I suspect we’ll come to view this era as a necessary correction that went into overcorrection. It’s awkward, but there’s something necessary going on. It feels mildly unsettling to watch Indian characters appear who are not convenience store owners or doctors, and it shouldn’t.
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Show has a core of sincerity. Core cast is solidly likable. Melissa Benoist is particularly good. Hard to be a blue-eyed blonde and _not_ come across as a Fox News anchor, Karen, or Hallmark movie heroine in 2020.
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Jon Cryer is an awful Lex Luthor though. Just not menacing at all.
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Update: he’s been slowly growing on me in the role. Gotta admit I was wrong. The two and a half men familiarity just took a while to undo. He’s an acceptable Lex Luthor. Plays it insidious and inveigling rather than openly menacing.
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Recommendation as per specifically a reply to the above tweet: Harley Quinn seasons 1 and 2. Hilariously and sometimes explicitly self-aware without ever being farcical. Also Altered Carbon, latest season—everybody’s black! And it’s super understated and thereby punches hard
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