Oh lord—Netflix just won’t quit.
Just as it seems like the world is finally getting tired enough of woke claptrap about race, gender, and all manner of “oppressions,” entertainment companies are doubling down on woke offerings that seem destined to bring ridicule instead of profit.
The Netflix streaming service is one of the worst offenders. What used to be about as popular and “loved by everyone” as Blockbuster Video was in the 1980s and 1990s is now a digital “freaks on demand” service. In the past few years the service has offered viewers a multi-part documentary focusing on the alleged troubles of third-tier American whiner/actress Meghan Markle and her henpecked husband Prince Harry Windsor, a series featuring dimwitted race huckster Ibram X. Kendi (real name: Ibram Henry Rogers, but that doesn’t sound Militant Black enough), and a show called “He’s Expecting.” Yes. It’s a show about a pregnant man, because that’s a real thing now we are all commanded to believe on pain of cancellation.
One of the most ridiculous and offensive series in recent years has to be the “reimagining” of the Tudor Court. Or, as we like to call it, Black Anne Boleyn. That’s right, Netflix decided to really reimagine the downfall of Henry VIII’s second wife by casting dark-skinned black actress Jodie Turner Smith. Because we all know that black Africans were a huge part of early modern English life, and that Henry was an early proponent of interracial dating.
The Daily Mail wrote about how the company was experiencing the Go Woke, Go Broke effect, and axed some of its worst offerings in order to save the company’s bottomline. But has Netflix woken up? Not if its latest Will Ferrell comedy is any indication.
“Will and Harper” is a road-trip buddy movie with a twist: it’s actually a documentary. Oh, and there’s another twist: one of the buds has become a bud-ette. Ferrell stars along with former Saturday Night Live head writer Harper Steele as themselves. The trailer opens with a maudlin-comic (they think) introduction by Ferrell in which he reminisces about working with his friend Harper, then receives a letter from him saying he’s “transitioning to live as a woman.” So they decide to have a road trip about it.
Click the pic below to see the trailer. Warning: you may get creeped out by a monotone and very male Harper Steele in mod glasses and a lady-cut intoning, “I’m not Andrew Steele anymore.” Cue Psycho theme music.
Let’s see what X/Twitter users had to say to Netflix on that thread.
This guy is right on the money. He’s talking about the popular movie ratings website Rotten Tomatoes, which is known to be staffed by wokies who rate any postmodern garbage as genius while the audience rating for the same dreck gives it a thumbs down.
There’s always one dummy.
Tell us, readers, will you be taking the road trip with Will and “Harper?”
