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Mistrust porn

posted 3 years ago by MichaelJPollock (752)
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This show seems to be an accumulation of short sequences about the breakdown and impossibility of trust after a recent social/societal upheaval.

Conceptually, it's like a "super lean" version of Games of Thrones - with all the drama and sex and meaningful (or not) relationships expunged - where absolutely every single character dies, it is almost impossible to judge a person's true intentions, and where trust is usually fatal.

The show is probably too smart to be too obvious about it, but one wonders if the zombie plague in this doesn't somewhat echo the revolution that social media introduced (for better or worse) in our lives...

Quite on point in fact, and absolutely of its time... so I guess it does capture some fundamental truth about our epoch (as genuine works of art -whether popular or not- should strive to do).

[–] UncleRuckis (2627) 3 years ago

Come to think of it, all the conflict in S2 was from the survivors. In that I mean there were very few instances of random zombies coming in to cause problems. Almost every zombie was the direct result of these peoples selfish actions. Had they actually managed to work together(or at least not shoot each other in the throat to drive 15 feet) there would have been almost no casualties!

[–] MichaelJPollock (752) 3 years ago

Good point. It seems to be the case, at least in the better films of the genre (starting with Romero's Night of The Living Dead), that the zombies are merely "accessories" to the demise of the survivors, and work as revealers of the tragic flaws of human nature.
Having now finished S2, I think it's clearly about about how people need to learn to communicate, trust and
cooperate all over again towards a common goal or vision, and how tribalism and division of society in groups of selfish interests in a zero sum game are ultimately unproductive and destructive in the long run.

[–] pcbakeraz (99) 3 years ago

"we have met the enemy and he is us"