I haven't seen season 3 in awhile, but I remember one of the children just came outta nowhere and said this, "You know what I love most about this country? Capitalism…it means this is a free market system, which means people get paid for their services, depending on how valuable their contributions are.” It was kind of jarring to hear a child spew some pro-Capitalist shit like that.
Season 3 was lame in itself but it had the evil Soviet commies as the main enemy. Hard to tell how much of it was sincere and how much was just an homage to all the 80s movies that did this.
The typical romanticizing of the 80s is itself a sort of pro-capitalist propaganda. It often conceals harsh realities of the 80s like deindustrialization, the AIDs crisis, CIA death squads, the crack epidemic, the gutting of social safety nets and so on in favor of nostalgia for gimmicky products and pop culture that was at the time often a mouth piece for US imperialism.
Right, I sort of did too. I think the writer's intent was more of a spoof on the 80s trope. I mean, it's Russians in secret bunker under a mall. Not sure it's meant to present a serious critique of the USSR.
What I don't let them off the hook for is everything else wrong with season 3. Just bad all around, IMO.
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I haven't seen season 3 in awhile, but I remember one of the children just came outta nowhere and said this, "You know what I love most about this country? Capitalism…it means this is a free market system, which means people get paid for their services, depending on how valuable their contributions are.” It was kind of jarring to hear a child spew some pro-Capitalist shit like that.
And it was the black girl too.... Which somehow makes it worse?
In the 80s lmao
You're not supposed to like or agree with that character.
Season 3 was lame in itself but it had the evil Soviet commies as the main enemy. Hard to tell how much of it was sincere and how much was just an homage to all the 80s movies that did this.
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The typical romanticizing of the 80s is itself a sort of pro-capitalist propaganda. It often conceals harsh realities of the 80s like deindustrialization, the AIDs crisis, CIA death squads, the crack epidemic, the gutting of social safety nets and so on in favor of nostalgia for gimmicky products and pop culture that was at the time often a mouth piece for US imperialism.
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Right, I sort of did too. I think the writer's intent was more of a spoof on the 80s trope. I mean, it's Russians in secret bunker under a mall. Not sure it's meant to present a serious critique of the USSR.
What I don't let them off the hook for is everything else wrong with season 3. Just bad all around, IMO.
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Honestly S2 wasn't great either, and S3 was worse
Completely agree.
They took the occult Cold War conspiracy stuff to cartoonish lengths.