Day 19: Check me out on Filmsuck as we tear into the new Netflix hit “Unorthodox”

If this show was made in the 1990s, when American consumerist liberalism still seemed to hold some promise, maybe it would’a worked better. Now it’s like getting a whiff of a stagnant, dying culture.

Apr 04, 2020

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Went on Filmsuck to talk about Unorthodox, the new critically acclaimed Netflix docudrama about a woman who escapes the Satmars, a Hasidic sect in New York, and starts a new and hip life among a diverse group of cool kids in Berlin.

Evgenia, Eileen, and I tear into the show in all sorts of ways. But I think we all agree that one of its central problem is…

weaponized immigrant

Day 19: Check me out on Filmsuck as we tear into the new Netflix hit “Unorthodox”

If this show was made in the 1990s, when American consumerist liberalism still seemed to hold some promise, maybe it would’a worked better. Now it’s like getting a whiff of a stagnant, dying culture.

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