I don't strongly remember, but I think it brought the feeling that you really only have one chance to escape or get revenge, so you need to be really careful and make it count or make it loud. There's also lots of snitching and cruel group punishments. Characters that "misbehaved" often had cruel punishments like a finger cut off or eye removed or were executed.
I think it can work as a dog whistle because the underclass does violently retaliate sometimes.
it's season after season of misery porn. Every season is 80% misery porn, 5% based action that might spark revolution, and 15% putting down the resistance so really 95% misery porn. Rinse repeat every season.
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The first book was misery porn, idk about the show
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I don't strongly remember, but I think it brought the feeling that you really only have one chance to escape or get revenge, so you need to be really careful and make it count or make it loud. There's also lots of snitching and cruel group punishments. Characters that "misbehaved" often had cruel punishments like a finger cut off or eye removed or were executed.
I think it can work as a dog whistle because the underclass does violently retaliate sometimes.
it's season after season of misery porn. Every season is 80% misery porn, 5% based action that might spark revolution, and 15% putting down the resistance so really 95% misery porn. Rinse repeat every season.
Any thoughts on which parts to watch that are the 5%? Maybe the last episode of each season?
I would be 100% down to watch a "show bad but here's a montage of the bad guys drowning in their own blood"
Hard for me to remember lol. The good parts come at different moments across each season.
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