Anything Can Happen

This episode is awkwardly good for all the right reasons but that's the end of this review. The beginning is that this is my third attempt to praise the efforts of this episode and series. This episode specifically because it really is a fantastic look into the nature of perspective.

The story of Esther is a story of perspective. Xerxes had a limited one that needed adjusted by a strong female character. IT was. Her efforts saved her people and put Mordecai into a position good for their people.

I struggle to call Jewish beliefs and practices a religion because so much of their practices, festivals, and rituals are scientifically beneficial. They feel crafted for a people with 12 different tribal perspectives (stemming from 4 different mothers). Sure, they all had one father Jacob but that is a needle pulling a thread in another direction.

The point is that there is something beautiful about a heritage of a people.

The heritage of my people includes the ritual of buckling our seatbelt or else we suffer a ticket. It includes submitting to bullies because they have more money and because the people in power love the corruption of that power (USA FREEDOM!). The *culture I was born into forced conformity to often lofty and unscientific social engineering, which is the work of a religion. To be accepted in small town *mono-chromatic USA, one must worship the propaganda of forced homogenization or suffer *judgement.

Truthfully, everyone has a religion of their own creation running amok in their heads. Some of it is cultural (like going to church only on Easter) and then some include going to church every time it is available. Some Christian cultures are so afraid of their own superstitions that they only see terror in a vampire and lecherousness in their reflection off golden cones.

The point is that some people have worked so hard convincing themselves that their religion is holy that they forget who created holiness.

This show transcends the stereotypical perspectives.

That sums up how brilliant this episode is and how much I'm thankful for its presence on Netflix. Thank you for this lighthearted approach at broadening our perspective. Thank you for making a people's heritage look more magical than religious superstition.

More importantly, thank you for honoring the source material.

I supose, out of many reserves, the gift of this series, for me, is its provocative status. A rabbi in vampire costume at Purim party, a new job seeming just eccentric, the first stept o wedding between two Goim at a Purim party , the massive Esther and the fanca Elisabeth II. And the Cat woman in doubts about be, again, mother .

Pretty nice , maybe. But the impression about improvisation - again reminded Seinfeld - remains.

I loved recognizing the fact that Stephanie Faracy dressed up as Madonna in this episode, just like she did in Hocus Pocus! I was like, oh I remember that costume from Hocus Pocus! Ten seconds later, after looking at her face more closely, wait a second, that's the same actress from Hocus Pocus! That was fun!