u/RageWithFire

Essentially, this is a political drama and thriller television show and yet instead of feeling like one, it feels like watching politics through the lens of an HR department in a marketing or PR firm. There's just this major mismatched between how politics and geopolitics is actually like in real life - a messy, disorganised, a bloodsport. Whereas here, it feels like I'm watching the clean room of some hospital facility.

It's not just a mismatch of the current Trump administration, but all US administrations really; which were filled with exceptionalisms, ideologues, often to the detriment of their own nation and others. Here it's just...once again, watching HR workers talk to each other. It's not the US, but their portrayal of other nations. Britain as this organised aristocratic old power (it isn't), and even presenting anti-Western bloc nations like Russia and Iran as rational agents. Which is hilarious considering the past 5 years. I find it funny how they portray Iranian officials as anything but religious nutjobs.

Political fiction is fiction, sure. But there has to be a limit no? The political dramas and thrillers of the 60s, 70s, and 80s showcased the nitty and gritty of the political world, how messy and disorganised it can all get - the strong (masculine) emotions behind many policy decisions; much of it wasn't cold, political calculations lol. You get nothing of that here, just a Californian white women's idealised world of what they think the political world should be like.

I told my partner that just based on what I've seen so far, I'm 100% sure that the writing team is either 100% female or at the very least 90%>. Googled it and I was right, 6 writers and only one is a man.

For all their love of politics and political commentary, it seems that this demographic (white Californian women) struggle to get political thrillers right. They need to understand that you really can't make a compelling story whilst trying so hard to be inoffensive lmao.

I just don't get it. Please explain this to me. I know it's ideology, ideology, and ideology, but there should be limits to this, no? Even they know this. Modern game devs make games set in Japan and it's 99% Japanese.

Clearly, devs realise characters certainly need to correspond to the setting, otherwise it breaks immersion. People would be weirded out if a game about a South African spy agency in 2025 was 100% white, and rightly so.

So why the fuck is this happening to us? The gameplay footage featured a break in at a hotel in Slovenia, and the party guests were....50% non-white.

And we can't even blame it on the Americans as this game is made by a Danish studio. Denmark is still 90% white European...

Make this make sense to me.