[SPOILERS AHEAD]

I watched the first season when it first came out on Netflix, and then recently watched the second as well. It's certainly flawed, but in all honesty I liked it a lot, particularly the first season. The relationship between Mae and George feels very real, and I enjoyed that it was central to the plot - sapphic relationships seem to largely be happening among the side-est of side characters, normally.

One of the things that bugged me most in this season was the dude (I've already forgotten his name) that George rebounds with. He was so viscerally annoying, and the embodiment of the 'liberal' and 'enlightened' and 'emotionally aware' man until it turns out that oh, he's also just looking to possess women.

I was interested in the scene where they're hanging out together and George is trying to show him this weird nun p•orn she's been watching, and he's pretty averse. He says it's fucked up. He tells her that it sounds like "what [she's] into is rooted in problematic power dynamics", and that she's got a lot of unlearning to do. Then, out of nowhere, he pulls a book on feminist theory and bestows it on her, beginning to talk about the link between the male orgasm and war crimes before the scene switches.

He's not wrong. But the thing is that the show is already portraying him in such a way that he's setting off light alarm bells of unease, and then he turns out to be a full out creep at the end. At first I was surprised that Netflix would be critical about pornography - but if they're speaking it through the mouth of an unappealing, mysogynistic male character, then it's not really going to be read as genuine, legitimate criticism, is it? It'll be interpreted as this guy being condescending and talking down to women, and boom, this whole line of legitimate criticism has been tainted. Thoughts? Or other thoughts on the show? I've got pretty mixed feelings on it myself.