This weekend we’re watching : ‘Roar’: A hit-and-miss feminist sci-fi anthology

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This newly released series is a collection of half-hour standalone dramas about women shaken up by quirky science fiction premises, some of which are much more fun than others.

as a recently successful author who arrives in Los Angeles to meet producers about adapting her memoir into a film. In the first moments of the series,makes its ideological standpoint clear, embracing woke rhetoric and terminology in terms of gender and race. There are a lot of uncomfortable race-related experiences packed into this episode.

The satire is most pronounced during the meeting in which four white men pitch to adapt her memoirs into a “virtual embodiment” experience so that viewers get to walk a day in a black woman’s shoes, a messed-up, gimmicky idea which she calls “Being Black For Dummies”. The irony is that it feels like that title is how the writers conceived this episode.Nick Kroll in Episode 1: The Woman Who Disappeared.

There’s a bizarre quality to the woman-bird banter that is cute, funny, awkward and messed-up. This is the wackiest and most ridiculous episode, but also an insightful discussion about the pressures of dating and the insidious nature of abusive relationships, ending with a lesson learnt about drawing value from oneself rather than in relation to others.Merritt Wever in Episode 5: The Woman Who Was Fed By A Duck.

, by promoting self-reflection and the willingness to face one’s own flaws. Meera Syal plays a middle-aged Indian woman who feels trapped in the routine of her 37-year marriage. But one of her friends reassures her that this is America, land of the free – she can just take her husband’s warranty to the store and exchange him for another model, as if he were a defective toaster.

This fantasy, which many women have doubtless conceived, is actually an allegory for how relationships change over time and how people take one another for granted. Though it starts by literally objectifying men, it evolves into an honest and ultimately kind take on how marriages endure.Meera Syal in Episode 7: The Woman Who Returned Her Husband. Fivel Stewart in Episode 8: The Girl Who Loved Horses. varies quite a lot, most anthologies are a mixed bag.

 

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