It is! Nate isn’t coming back but all the others will be appearing. Here’s hoping 
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Well, Parker was left in charge, so I guess we’ll see what the new dynamic is…
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Ha, just watched that episode tonight 
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The latest Mare of Easttown…
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Right?
They really leaned in to the Silence of the Lambs motif, didn’t they?
And Dylan looks even shadier than ever; I stand by my disappointment that he did not die earlier in the season.
Maybe it’s just me, or maybe it’s the writing, but I swear all the adolescents of ‘Easttown’ seem like sociopathic assholes.
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Right? I’m anxious now to see who’s in that photo Erin’s friend pocketed. Big piece of evidence I bet. Sad to see boy-faced partner go down. The actor playing him is good too.
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Yeah… I mean, just from the episode setup, I knew things were about to go awry, but not like that…
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Watched Roe v Wade because it looked marginally interesting from the trailer - completely unaware it was an ant-abortion propaganda film.
It was bad, like really bad. Not because it was a thinly veiled right wing propaganda film (which it totally was), but because it was just a really bad film.
Hammy (and not in a good way) acting, the same tired anti-abortion arguments as always, claims the court decision was rife with conflicts of interest and corruption, healthy doses of racism and anti-semitism throughout, and a largely incoherent story that just ends up making everybody look awful in the end. To top it off the color grading gives every scene a sickly and unappealing green and yellow hue.
Oh, and Mike Lindell, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Roger Stone have cameos, FFS.
Do not recommend. Not even worth hate watching.
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Adolescents be crazy @Melizmatic!
I was so surprised that Zabel was killed, although his confession about the previous case makes you realize that he really wasn’t all that experienced? I thought we were going to learn that his relationship with his mom was a bit off.
Are we all thinking that the father of Erin’s child could be her cousin-once-removed Billy Ross? He was visibly uncomfortable discussing Erin’s living arrangements.
I have to say that I got a twinge of pride when Ryan Ross beat the crap out of that douchebag who throwing crap at his sister.
One thing I found odd was the description of the serial kidnapper by that teenager. She described him having a beard and that dude was clean shaven. I get that men shave their beards, but what an odd detail to give the viewers?
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Again, I concur; I was even thinking “bean him with your tray” before it happened, and then when it did it was VERY cathartic. That kid might be the only one on this show that I sort of like; the rest seem terrible, even Siobhan.
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This seems to be a recurring theme of many of the right wing propaganda films…
Wow… can you give an example of that? I’m curious now.
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Yup, let me collect my many thoughts and get back to you. I was so pissed of last night I could barely sleep because I waking up kept thinking about this film. I can’t say the last time a movie or TV show angered me to this level.
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Oh wow… yeah, please do.
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Ok, where to begin… And to be clear it’s possible that I’m just overanalyzing and seeing racism and anti-Semitism that could just be explained away as “lazy storytelling”, but given the intended audience for this film, probably not.
The anti-semitism –
The role of Dr. Barnard Nathanson (“acted” by the film’s director Nick Loeb) manages to hit all the typical Evil Jew tropes. He is portrayed as scheming, obsessed with money, proudly manipulating the media, and revels in giving abortions. In scene after scene he gleefully recounts the things he does. In the climax at the end of the film, he’s giving an abortion assisted with ultrasound and when he hears the heartbeat he melodramatically has a breakdown right there in the OR. Cut to the next scene of him converting to Catholicism thus being “redeemed”.
Noted Jewish feminist Betty Friedan is one-dimensionally portrayed as an ignorant, cynical, and callous opportunist who is only acting as a Pied Piper to bring women into the fold for publicity. (See a trend here?)
The racism –
In a flashback, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is shown giving a super racist speech complete with multiple uses of the N word at a KKK women’s rally – in front of a burning cross. And, just in case you forgot about this, in the epilogue the exact same scene is shown again in its entirety except with a title card saying how she actually opposed abortion. On further reflection I’m not sure what this is trying to prove – Sanger had some terrible views but she was ok because she opposed abortion? I’m really not sure what this is intended to prove other than trying to smear Planned Parenthood (a common theme throughout the film).
The only Black person with any speaking parts in the film was Dr. Mildred Jefferson (portrayed by outspoken Trump supporter and terrible person Stacey Dash). Dash hits all the expected “Angry Black Woman” tropes and overacts them to the point of self-parody. In one scene that defied ridiculousness, she was with her mother (portrayed by MLK’s niece and noted right-wing activist Alveda King) in the kitchen talking about the Evil Jewish Doctor. The scene was intercut with close-ups of her mother nodding contemplatively. Inexplicably, the infamous abortion episode of Maude is on TV and when Maude’s daughter says, “it’s like going to the dentist”, the mother swoons – dropping a casserole dish on the floor. It’s the Evil Jewish Doctor who has given tens of thousands of dollars to Hollywood to further his agenda, explains Jefferson to her distraught mother.
The misogyny –
I mean, how could there not be? Women are given practically no agency in the film – without any exceptions (including the “heroic” Dr. Mildred Jefferson), women are portrayed as scheming and self-serving go-getters, angry pro-life protesters inexplicably following the main characters around like some kind of thralls, or are on operating tables with their legs open. The lawyers on the Roe side are portrayed as incompetent and conniving liars. It’s implied that the only reason that Roe succeeded in Texas was because Sarah Weddington had clerked for one of the judges. Norma McCorvey is portrayed as an ignorant bumpkin who’s sole purpose is to get tricked by the evil woman lawyers.
The other things –
The SCOTUS judges are portrayed as corrupt, weak, and ineffectual, easily swayed by the opinions of their families and pressure from the evil liberal media.
Multiple “shock” scenes of abortions including heroic police taking away buckets of viscera from illegal abortions were occurring in a Chicago hotel. (Naturally, rabbis had been providing referrals to these places.) A scene comparing pulling toppings off a pizza to removing a fetus. A scene of a dismembered fetus that looked more like a dismantled doll. A terribly done CG scene of a fetus in the womb audibly screaming as it’s about to be removed. Of course these scenes were so ham-fisted they were more eye roll inducing versus shocking.
Trump supporter Joey Lawrence plays a constitutional law professor who has little to do throughout the film other than spew conservative bumper sticker quotes in every scene (seriously, basically every scene has dialog like, “<insert quote here> - <name>”) and generally be a smug dick to his students in random classroom scenes.
I mentioned the color grading before, but I’ll do it again. It was so absolutely awful and unpleasant. Here’s a picture from an actual scene:
Every single scene looks piss soaked like this, and I just don’t understand it.
In any event, yeah – I can’t believe I’ve spent so much time writing about such a terrible film but it just pissed me off so much. It’s filled with easily debunkable lies, “fake news”, and lazy tropes – but more than anything, it’s just a poorly done film. I’m ashamed that I inadvertently placed any money into the pockets of the people behind this farce.
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It’s much better that the right-wing propaganda is bad. We don’t need D. W Griffiths or Leni Riefenstahls in our world.
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It is a common lie thrown around about her. She was certainly a eugenicist, but I believe she was more focused on people with mental and physical defects rather than on race specifically. She did work across racial lines to try and help women in all communities get control over their bodies. She also did oppose abortions because at the time, they were incredibly dangerous because they were not legal or regulated.
Her “comments” about racial genocide are not accurate and are completely taken out of context, but it’s a favorite go to about her because it’s meant to show how hypocritical, racist, and misogynistic that the “left” is.
Anyways… sounds horrible. Thanks for taking one for the team and watching it so the rest of us don’t have to. Also, sorry you watched it.
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Ugh. Sounds like you need an antidote!
This should do it:
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I mean I should have known from the trailer when Jon Voight was in it what I was getting into, but it looked looked like it could potentially be an interesting historical/courtroom drama. Of course what I got was about 10 minutes of actual courtroom scene. The rest was just a Fox News-tinged conspiracy fever dream (this is what I get for not doing my research beforehand). The courtroom scenes themselves were pretty lousy making everybody from the lawyers to the judges look incompetent and out of their depth.
Maybe that’s what’s more confusing than anything – if the intent was to make the anti-abortion side look like the heroes in the story, mission definitely not accomplished. There is a scene where the anti-abortion attorneys are literally laughed out of the courtroom. The Texas DA is portrayed as a hot headed hick who can’t do much more than yell ineffectively at people. The list goes on and on. This is what the filmmakers chose to highlight?
Anyway, I’ve got all that out of my system and hopefully I never have to think about this film again or how much dumber it has made feel me as a result of watching it.
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“You see, when they laugh at us, it’s just like when they laughed at the ‘pro-life’ defenders in the Roe v. Wade case.”
The theme of every sermon after a showing of the movie.
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