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Characters are way too extreme in their traits. The evil man is cartoonishly eeeeeviillll, you can almost hear him laugh maniacally off screen. The good woman is martyred on the cross, but she takes it woth stoic dignity, and she is so beautiful, so brave in her suffering.

Logic and plausibility fly out of the window to make room for implausible plot twists, because with such extreme characters and displays of pure eviiiiil you can't write a normal plot and development arcs, you need to contrive situations where the characters can be cartoonishly evil or be heroically nailed on the cross.

This is a really strange product. All the main characters are British people, but you would struggle to find any of them in real-world London, because they are so unBritish in everything they do and say and appear like they've been borrowed from a Brazilian soap opera, where you generally have an eviiiiiilll guy twirling his mustache. This is genuinely so bizarre.

I am an atheist and, yeah, I find religion somewhat cringeworthy. Being European and ignorant about the way religion works in America and in the world in general, I thought I would learn something from this movie... while having a bit of fun on the side.

But what I found is really mean person hell bent on always being the smartest person in every room and selecting the people to meet accordingly. After ridiculing and mocking a group of hillbillies, Bill Maher confidently walks away with a smirk on his face. Job done, I guess, but it's more like a therapy session for him in reinforcing his self-esteem than anything else.

The mocking itself is also very basic and unthinking ("this is all made up eheheh") and it doesn't have the flair and frankly even genius of something like Borat.

Most episodes follow a fixed formula where technological or societal trends of the present day (which is now years ago, given the age of the show) are stupidly and blindly extrapolated to a cartoonish version of themselves which has got nothing to do with the future, and it's rather a bad and yet very smug take about the present. "Smartphones bad" is not social commentary or tech skepticism, your grandma can provide that same insight.

The obsession with VR, which was roundly rejected by the vast majority of the population in the 2020s, is a major tell of the fact that the show is dated and will age like milk.