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seventeendeer · 7 months ago

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finally got around to giving carol and the end of the world a try and this is definitely the meanest possible takeaway from only having watched one episode, but christ it's really serving "chubby introvert brunettes are the most oppressed people in the world" right out the gate huh

#deerchatter #i wanted to like this show so so so badly bc i crave well-written adult animation of this genre so much #and it's so rare and so special to see middle-aged female protags in general !!!#but its portrayal of the pre-apocalypse as a no-rules paradise is so out of touch with reality it's really hard for me to care about #it just seems like such a poor choice of backdrop for exploring these themes and this protagonist #i feel like her problems would be a lot more sympathetic in a setting that shows a better understanding of how real society works #singling out the one slightly boring depressed person as the odd one out while everyone else has achieved true freedom and fulfillment #just seems incredibly tone-deaf and reductive to the people around her who would realistically have a much worse time #we're living a slow apocalypse in real life RIGHT NOW and we're working more than ever and structural oppression is at an all-time high !!#i'm sorry but this shit is stupid. the premise sucks #gonna keep watching to see if we get some nuance later but it's gonna take a fucking lot to salvage this sorry

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