This show is basically soft propaganda for communism. Showing how smoothly things would work if we would just become selfless drones who work for the good of our comrades.
Interesting, because I drew a completely different conclusion. I saw the Hive portrayed as soulless. Proritizing efficiency for an arbitrary goal over valueing indivduality. I did not get the vibe that the Hive was portrayed as "the right way to live".
To me, the Hive is a commentary on society itself. Whether that society is Stalinist communist, or cocaine capitalist, a society stops being worth living in the second it begins valueing some pointless goal over the individuality for those living in it.
I wanted to drop it for being woke, but it hid the woke lesbian stuff for just long enough to get me interested I guess
I don't really care that Carol is a carpet muncher tbh. A show having a gay character doesn't necessarily make it "woke". She's a pretty realistic portrayal of a Santa Fe upper class lesbian— warts and all. Pretentious, alcoholic, self absorbed. She distracts herself with the blandest art she can find, because she wants to identify as someone of class.
My bet is that they'll probably reveal she had some sexual trama early in her life in the later seasons. Maybe after the hive turns on her and tries to manipulate her against blowing up their antenna.
Carol is a very realistic character. A woke show wouldn't have portrayed her as realistically.
Prediction for show over all - Carol will save the world by writing a book
This makes me question if you were even paying attention while watching. Her books sucked. The hive outright told her that even her wife thought her books where nothing special.
The show is definitely not perfect. There are some pretty big plot holes as it currently stands. Forget someone intentionally freezing the hive... When they were originally taking over, not one person yelled at a spouse? A co worker? Screamed at someone in traffic? I feel like it would be very obvious something was wrong the second a Billion people had a siezure.