Reviewing episode 1
It's funny to see people complaining about "typical liberal BS". Jonathan's self-assured answer about his pronouns, mentioning he's a democrat or defining himself as an academic are meant to show what an insufferable ego he has. He's not really talking about himself, he's virtue-signaling. Kate and Peter moralizing their open relationship is meant to show the cognitive dissonance a couple goes through when they're in denial of how broken they are.
The theme here is repression, the way people say things about themselves to appear how they wish others would see them, rather than show the truth of how they really feel underneath. The conversations surrounding Mira's pregnancy is full of this, Jonathan tries to seem like he wants the baby when he doesn't, Mira comes up with her own justifications to hide the fact that she can't stand being around Jonathan anymore.
Jonathan and Mira are boring yuppies, no doubt. But this is not a show promoting them as people you're supposed to like. Ingmar Bergman was a master of using film to show the tensions that exist underneath the appearances of his characters, and the has done a good job with that so far. I have a feeling some of the negative reviews come from people too afraid to go down that road themselves.
It's funny to see people complaining about "typical liberal BS". Jonathan's self-assured answer about his pronouns, mentioning he's a democrat or defining himself as an academic are meant to show what an insufferable ego he has. He's not really talking about himself, he's virtue-signaling. Kate and Peter moralizing their open relationship is meant to show the cognitive dissonance a couple goes through when they're in denial of how broken they are.
The theme here is repression, the way people say things about themselves to appear how they wish others would see them, rather than show the truth of how they really feel underneath. The conversations surrounding Mira's pregnancy is full of this, Jonathan tries to seem like he wants the baby when he doesn't, Mira comes up with her own justifications to hide the fact that she can't stand being around Jonathan anymore.
Jonathan and Mira are boring yuppies, no doubt. But this is not a show promoting them as people you're supposed to like. Ingmar Bergman was a master of using film to show the tensions that exist underneath the appearances of his characters, and the has done a good job with that so far. I have a feeling some of the negative reviews come from people too afraid to go down that road themselves.