Lots of moments of people looking into the camera and going "how could communism do this?" which is cringe, but otherwise it's a fantastic story of human drama and how bad shit can get. Funny, I read this morning that Gorby is now dead, weird timing.
"for all mankind" is a similarly good in spite of its anticommunism brainworms show. Sometimes the soviets are shown in a positive light but usually it's more of an "in spite of authoritarian rule" thing. There's a North Korean storyline late in the series that really leans into the "communist Asian automaton" trope that feels real bad. Hopefully they'll humanize the character in the next season.
I was watching Atlanta S3, and the third episode can't help sneak in a zinger at North Korea at the very end. One the one hand, the arc of the plot was very obviously critical of bougie-ass white people. But god damn, even Donald Glover can't help falling for the NK tropes.
it's so baked into america, even committed conspiracy lovers get mad when you suggest that the portrait of NK presented in western media might be made up
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don't forget they also get their blonde
the way the women are treated by the show is hard to pin down, sometimes it seems pretty realistic and sometimes it's way too american exceptionalist
i kept hoping for a US -> USSR defection, like maybe a gay or black american astronaut would find the russians treated them better, but it's too brainwormed for that
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There's a shot at the very end of the S3 finale which shows Margo step out on a balcony in Moscow, so I'm pretty sure we're getting something in that direction for S4 (though she could well become some kind of double agent, not fully committing to her defection or sth; we'll have to wait)
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Yeah, I guess you're right about that. I didn't really class that as a positive defection in my head since the storyline is that she was blackmailed by the ebil authoritarian commulists into handing over US space tech (which is even more :brainworms: since Russian space propulsion tech was always ahead of ours) and she's implied to have just run away and let the bombing seem like her death.
The constant "RUSHA FLYING 100% COPY OF AMERICAN THING" really gets my goat so much
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Hey, at least it's canon that the IRA got Thatcher in the FAM universe, that's gotta be worth something, right (it's hidden in one of the start-of-season headline montages but still)