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Like, the movie is very clearly hyper-critical of a host of early 2000s-era American cultural touchstones, from conservative hyper-nationalists hero worshiping the police state to liberal technocrats unquestioningly deferring everything to "experts". Its told from an outsider perspective by way of "time travel", and the eugenics bit is just to get you to the premise of the show.
The story is basically just a revamped Gulliver's Travels. But in setting up the outsider perspective of a basic bitch white American loser, its real failure is in being myopically Western-centric. There's never a consideration that life outside America could possibly be better off than the dystopian nightmare the protagonist finds himself in.
I'd say that's the real sin. For all Judge's critique of American culture as trashy, violent, navel-gazing self-destruction, he can't see outside the fucking DC Beltway.
Like, the movie is very clearly hyper-critical of a host of early 2000s-era American cultural touchstones, from conservative hyper-nationalists hero worshiping the police state to liberal technocrats unquestioningly deferring everything to "experts". Its told from an outsider perspective by way of "time travel", and the eugenics bit is just to get you to the premise of the show.
The story is basically just a revamped Gulliver's Travels. But in setting up the outsider perspective of a basic bitch white American loser, its real failure is in being myopically Western-centric. There's never a consideration that life outside America could possibly be better off than the dystopian nightmare the protagonist finds himself in.
I'd say that's the real sin. For all Judge's critique of American culture as trashy, violent, navel-gazing self-destruction, he can't see outside the fucking DC Beltway.