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So, this should have been a series about the famous Stephen King's "The Mist", but it was anything but that. Remember - a series about mysterious mist, monsters, unimaginable horror. Humans questioning their own sanity, belief in God, and so on. Yet here's what we got in the first several minutes of the pilot episode:

• First character we see is POC
• Sex-ed drama in school
• Teenager with an "alternative sex orientation"
• "White male aggression"
• "History of oppression"
• Male "privilege" of checking out other people's bodies
• Teen rape
• White father stupid & bad

None of those topics are relevant to the plot of the "Mist". The whole thing is just a big social engineering project disguised as "The Mist". Utterly impossible to stay involved in the story and/or sympathize with the characters.

The movie itself is great. The early 90s in Eastern Europe were rough, and this movie depicts those times well, almost submerging you into the atmosphere of a cold, muddy autumn in the late communist Polish state, full of corruption, bandits, and mad Januszes of all sorts. The first thing is the corrupt commission members-mfs who were members of that commission for years, no matter what, yet they are the ones who decide people's fates. Anyway, the movie goes south pretty fast-from drunkard policemen doing little shady things to full cocaine-infused Cosa Nostra mafia shootouts and murders. And, of course, there's always a Russian mafia boss included, haha (Poles had a habit of submitting to their masters from Moscow in the 90s). Overall, it's fun and cool, but it feels like the director got bored closer to the end of the movie and decided to finish it ASAP to go get drunk with his buddies or something.

So, this guy decides to die just because he can't afford health insurance (which turns out to be a lie later on). The guy could literally stop eating and live much longer, fix his relationship with his daughter and ex-wife (and he literally did it right at the end of the movie). For whatever reason, the dude decides to shove himself full of food until he dies. What lunacy! Even though he had zero reasons to do that-his daughter is visiting him, despite the fact she hates him. They talk, do essays, and slowly but steadily she opens up to him-the doors to a family reunion are wide open. But no, our main character decides that it's better to off himself instead of observing his daughter's evolution from a hatred-filled teenager into a bright young woman. Damn loser.