30th November 2015, 11:40 AM
There I said it.
I just watched an episode where the main character had to learn some lesson about how temporary everything is. Also, inexplicably, the white house was having some sort of cultural exchange program with Tibetan monks making a mandala. At the end of the episode, they destroy it, as is the way of mandalas. They never talk to the monks, they never interact except to occasionally look at it's "progress", and when it's done, they leave and are never mentioned again. The entire purpose, as though it isn't already painfully obvious, is to wedge in a thematically awkward symbol about the fleeting nature of the main character's political ambitions.
The whole series is filled with stuff like that. Things like a power company president killing his own prized bird in a fit of rage to show how power hungry he is. It's amateur hour film class, and it's one of Netflix's most popular shows. I don't get it...
I just watched an episode where the main character had to learn some lesson about how temporary everything is. Also, inexplicably, the white house was having some sort of cultural exchange program with Tibetan monks making a mandala. At the end of the episode, they destroy it, as is the way of mandalas. They never talk to the monks, they never interact except to occasionally look at it's "progress", and when it's done, they leave and are never mentioned again. The entire purpose, as though it isn't already painfully obvious, is to wedge in a thematically awkward symbol about the fleeting nature of the main character's political ambitions.
The whole series is filled with stuff like that. Things like a power company president killing his own prized bird in a fit of rage to show how power hungry he is. It's amateur hour film class, and it's one of Netflix's most popular shows. I don't get it...