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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Bloobish@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

Don't know how many peeps here have seen the latest season of True Detective called "Night Country", but so far I've really enjoyed it. However strolling over to lovely reddit-logo has a lot of blubbering manchildren upset about the new season which just so happens to have two female leads, focuses upon abuses of Native Alaskans and women in general (domestic abuse, murder, etc), and also has native empowerment over exploitation as a theme. Well I just watched the final episode and I fuckin' loved it, so here's kinda a short tldr of it marked as a spoiler as I encourage y'all to see the show first if you haven't (it's an anthology so really only Seasons 1, 3 and this one are worth it).

spoilerAlright so the season began with a murder/suicide of a bunch of research scientists digging up ice cores to find microbes for eternal life or whatever (they had been found naked dead on the ice), however while checking the crime scene a human tongue is found and connected with the murder of a Alaskan Native woman several years ago by the name of Annie K (a woman that protested the activities of the local mining corp that was poisoning the town leading to stillbirths and other horrible stuff). Annie was a central figure to the town's native population being one of the younger upcoming midwives and spiritualist (don't know the proper term). She had been found stabbed and dumped over by the mine and her murder buried by the police and local politicians in cooperation with the mine to avoid public backlash.

Welp turns out she was murdered by the Tsalal scientists when she found out they were the ones responsible for the pollution in a bid to thaw the permafrost and ice to get to harder to reach ice core samples. This would later be found out by the local circle of Native Women who performed a lot of the menial labor in town (maids and so had access to a lot of areas such as the police station, the mining office and the Tsalal station), so in revenge the women staged a faked suicide on to the ice, forcing the men at gunpoint to strip and wander into a blizzard for the sins they committed (all the men were responsible for stabbing Annie K to death Agustus Ceasar style when she tried sneaking into Tsalal many years ago to find info on the pollution). Anyway the season ends with the current cop duo covering for the Native women and letting the murder go unsolved as well as resolving issues of mother hood and sisterhood (similar to how season 1 was about the lacking of fathers and brothers/comrades as a secondary theme).

So yeah gonna be a lot of wojak-nooo in response to the show being turned into "Woke Detective". Anyway it's a pretty good season and is worth a try even though it does drag sometimes (but is thankfully only 6 episodes something I think was wisely chosen by the show lead).

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[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 33 points 9 months ago

It's actually way funnier. I CTRL+F'd the thread to see what the reactions would be.

I actually didn't get any feminist themes outside of the main characters being female.

What do you see as the feminist and indigenous power of this story? Is it just because the leads were women?

This is the most unadulterated feminist rage I've seen on screen for a long time. Time and time again it exposes misogynistic violence and punishes it. Yet even when it's this unsubtle, all the average reddit nerd can see as feminist is "it has women in it".

We joke about how "political" to these people means "women or people of colour exist", but it is not just a facade. It's literally all these nerds can comprehend.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

There's a reason I love the one Putin meme line of "you are a westerner and so I already know you are functionally illiterate". Like holy shit what the fuck happened, do people not understand the basics of themes in stories or are American consumers just wanting media to be a self insert fantasy trip like fucking isekais for anime nerds?

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