Reviews

While most recent sci-fi, including this series as an whole, tends to be gentrified pc crap that only function to repeat the "orange man bad" mantra. This episode is a true gem, with some very cleaver critique of the globalist society.

While being set in in the u.s there are several hints that its actually europe and in specific the e.u that its about. You see this in the end with manchester soccer match , and the very cleaver use of color on and around the "candidate".

Its conveyence of consumer capitaism as an pooly hidden overall goal, with only token "orginal" workers is brilliant. And the same way is its critique og right think, a parralel to this could be britans tommy robinson. Being portrayed as a right wing radical by the large political and media consensus, and in many ways being branded an enemy of the state.

I am amazed at how not funny this show has become, the first 3 seasons got progressively better. But this fourth season is almost devoid of humor, some episodes are worse then others, but the lows really hit a new bottom each time. It feels like they lost all sense of self irony, and the only jokes that works are those with the shows side characters.

I don't know why they started taking them self so serious that they cant be funny, but take the "Mushrooms" episode.

At the end there is a behind the scenes bit where they talk about how it was suppose to mimic the viewer taking psychedelic mushrooms. But what we get is an mostly animated(very well done) episode that just seems to drive the character arc forward, Abby kills her boss's cat(because that is apparently what you do on mushrooms??) and gets fired.

Having rewatched a couple of these episodes back to back with the old ones, i had to come back to this review and restate how incredibley bad the writing has become.