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Posted August 24, 2024 by Elle_x_oh in Television

I started watching this series awhile ago. I was pleased to find a 3 series show each with many episodes. Something I could "get my teeth into", watch a few episodes at a time and appreciate the acting (even when it was Kiefer Sutherland taking off his glasses and looking pensive, for the umpteenth time) Anyway I'm into it and up to the 3rd series, loving it.... and all of a sudden he has a trans sister-in-law and everybody is accepting/okay with it and I'm thinking Really? So now I'm hoping this man in a dress....(is the actor actually a man or a woman,,,ahhh!?(&$#!!!) doesn't feature too much and leave me with a bad taste in my mouth about what has, up till now, been an excellent watch.

17 comments

Elle_x_oh [OP]August 24, 2024(Edited August 24, 2024)

Another thing that really FUCKED ME OFF about this was that this TiM's character plays a woman developing a bond with a vulnerable child...talking about periods which the dude knows fuck all about.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during conversations between the cast about that TiMs inclusion. I dunno...maybe they were all captured.

overanddoneAugust 24, 2024

lip service. Hollywood has been inserting MtFs as lipservice for a while now. Someone powerful is likely forcing them ("do this or lose your funding"). Because why would anyone want something like that in an otherwise good production? It is cringe-worthy. It is a distraction. It does not normalize TIPs, it makes them zoo animals or part of the freak show.

Elle_x_oh [OP]August 24, 2024

Yeah there was also a gay male sex scene in that series as well. It's like somebody thought "okay here's an idea....if we add the gay sex scene in...nobody will notice if we slip in a TiM" I'm having to purse my lips and sit on my hands so I don't waste many good hours of entertainment and stop watching.

starlight_chaserAugust 24, 2024(Edited August 24, 2024)

Are you streaming it? You could just skip ahead past the the tim. I generally approach streaming movies and tv shows like reading a book. I can easily put a bookmark and pause/come back wherever I want, and if there’s a weird pointless part I just go ahead a few paragraphs or skim (fast-forward).

Elle_x_oh [OP]August 24, 2024

Haha...I prefer to exercise some uncaring restraint and will try to finish. Although it's just a story, and the addition of things I dislike have kinda ruined it....this is all part of what's happening. Plus if I watch it all I can review it for others.

DoomedSibylAugust 25, 2024

I recently watched this and was horrified by the trans propaganda. It wasn’t even subtle and ruined what was a decent trashy go to sleep show.

Elle_x_oh [OP]August 25, 2024

Well I steeled myself and stayed to the end simply because I like to finish things that I start. There should be a TQ warning/classification 😖

RappaccinisDaughterAugust 24, 2024

The actor, Jamie Clayton, is a TIM.

Elle_x_oh [OP]August 24, 2024

Thanks for that. I peered at the actor...before I knew it was a biological male...thinking nah shoulders look female, face structure looks fine (surgery I suppose?)

Fuck!

RappaccinisDaughterAugust 24, 2024

He passes really well. If Wikipedia didn't say it, I wouldn't have been sure.

Still not a woman, though 💁‍♀️

a_shrubAugust 24, 2024

I fell out of watching this mid-way through the second season, IIRC because they shoehorned in car ads with the characters as if they were part of the story, and I got super bored with it. Kinda glad I checked out before having to deal with the gaslighting of everyone just happily accepting a man pretending he's a woman as if it's no big deal. It sucks that they seem determined to wreck things in this manner!

Elle_x_oh [OP]August 24, 2024

I was happy with it for the first 2 seasons. Should've realized it couldn't last 😖

PhryneAugust 25, 2024

What a drag. Thanks for telling me this. I'd just started watching this but won't watch further.

Elle_x_oh [OP]August 25, 2024

Watch the first 2 series only and stop there. I feel the scriptwriters were scrambling for imagination in the 3rd season and simply used the transgender topic because it's so controversial. Blah! Watch the first two 👍 you can do it 😄

PhryneAugust 26, 2024

Thanks!

ThelnebriatiAugust 24, 2024

Oh damn, I just reached the middle of season 2.

Elle_x_oh [OP]August 24, 2024

Forewarned? so you can go forward with knowledge?