That he was the butt of Conan O’Brien’s jokes reflects the cultural impact of his platform. It was hilarious For those who watch movies while looking at their cell phone, although it’s more scary. They predict that Netflix will end cinema; The curious thing is that when he was born it was said that he came to save television. In its beginnings, before it dedicated itself to producing eight-episode after-dinner TV movies (in favor of TV movies, but they do last ninety minutes), it offered us dazzling series like and . The first was pure sophistication and some believed that politics was like that: a ballet of scheming advisors and devious rulers who are always two steps ahead, ha! They also believed that it was like The castleha ha! The second reflected the consequences of the policy.
The protagonists were a beautiful couple, although the real ones were not so beautiful, but audiovisuals love to beautify; Even Frankenstein is handsome now. And that changes the story. If the protagonist of The exchange Had she looked like Angelina Jolie, the Los Angeles police would have pulled up sidewalks to find her son, but since the real Christine Collins was unattractive, they gave her the first stray child they came across. Beautiful lives matter more. Its creator, , has confessed that she used them as a Trojan horse to tell what really interested her: a story of women of diverse origins, ages, physiques and sexualities, characters rarely seen on screen. His series explained the miseries of the system from the perspective of those left behind. In it I saw for the first time the excesses of ICE and the marketing of private prisons concerned with reducing costs and increasing profits, and if there is no reintegration, better for the shareholders.
In the last season, already in the midst of Trumpism, they abandoned an injured immigrant in the middle of the desert. A few weeks ago it appeared in the United States—one that does not find much echo in the media. He was blind and sick, illiterate and spoke no English. To the character of Orange is the New Black she was left lying around by human traffickers; The refugee was abandoned to his fate by the border patrol of that country that his cinema has sold as a moral reference. How badly Hollywood’s American heroism has aged and how well Orange is the New Black. And that’s bad for everyone.
