My Unorthodox Life

I get that this is a document on Julia and not on the Orthodox community but I am already two episodes in and half the time she isn't making it about herself, but how about the Orthodox community is a cult and brainwashed. I don't understand how anyone can relate to her. I feel very bad for her son-in-law in the scene where Batsheva brings up wearing pants. You can see how cold she is.

I'm not a religious Jewish woman. I'm a liberal one.

But I find Julia extremely authoritarian and disrespectful.

For someone who left the community because they forced her to do things she didn't want or like, she behaves that way.

Apparently never learned that lesson.

Bat and Ben are loveable.

The rest sounds scripted. Fake.

I admire Julias story but the conflicts are obviously planted and the conversations feel so scripted. I guess that's how tv is even if it's "real life".

The whole show I just bad for Robert because people were constantly violating his boundaries. First Julia not respecting him when he said he didn't want to date at this time. He stood his ground but Julia wouldn't drop it. And then his family gaslighting him for trying to find out more about his birth person. I hope that has changed foe him since.

For those who condemn her for attacking an entire group, watch the documentary One of Us, also on Netflix. You'll have a better understanding of what she left and why she doesn't want her son to be sucked into that way of life. I think she's going about convincing him in the wrong way, but maybe, hopefully, by the end of the series I'll be proven wrong. I agree with her that fundamentalism in any religion is a huge problem. We see it with American right wing Christians, Myanmar Buddhists, Middle Eastern Muslim Al-Qaeda, etc.; they're all putrid peas in the same rotten pod. I fast forwarded through all the fashion world junk. Other than a few brief scenes it was irrelevant.

Most of the hate is coming from people in the community she left.

It's sad that they don't want her to tell her story.

The show itself: Similar to other reality TV shows like the Kardashians (which I haven't really watched). It feels heavily scripted. If you don't like those other shows I doubt you'll like this.

I come from an Orthodox Jewish background and watched it because her background intrigued me. It's far from a must watch but I found it entertaining.

In terms of TV quality I'd actually rate it much lower than a 6. But I support her transition and hate all the people trying to shut her down. She has the right to tell her story and people need to stop calling her liar and denying her own experiences due to their own insecurities.