Entertainment

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?”

Merry Old England is getting a woke makeover once again, courtesy of Netflix. 

First, they showed us that Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, was black. Oh, you didn’t hear about this? Feast your eyes and weep (we’ve embedded a link to a woke apologia for the silliness just for you!):

Then came “Bridgerton,” another Netflix series that “reimagined” Regency England as a multicultural playland populated by as many black or mixed-race people, including royalty, as there were actual native white Britons. For reference, there were only estimated to be 15,000 blacks in all of England at the end of the 18th century – while the first Census in 1801 put England’s total population at 8.3 million, making this minority only 0.18% of the population at the time – in reality.

Now, Netflix brings us another bold, imaginative, and not-at-all-insulting-or-pandering  series set in early modern England that blacks-up and gays-up actual historical figures who were neither. Readers, you’re going to think I’m joking. You’re going to think, “surely, they cannot go this far.”

I am not joking. They have gone this far. 

Netflix has made King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, a gay black man in a wheelchair. And it’s a wheelchair that looks like someone stole it from the set of The Hobbit. 

The show is called “My Lady Jane,” (you can see a trailer below) and it purports to tell the story of the tumultuous and brief nine days’ “rule” of Lady Jane Grey  in 1553. Funny how no historians until now have mentioned that the son of Henry Tudor was somehow, inexplicably, a black African who just happened to have wheelchair access, too.

The motivation is probably implied by the title: “MY Lady Jane.” The woke believe that they are entitled to rewrite the world to reflect themselves, personally. How many times do we hear young blue hairs complaining that a TV show or movie “doesn’t have anyone who looks like me?” Pathological narcissism masquerades as normal small talk in the 21st century. 

Here’s what really happened. When the boy King Edward VII (son of Henry VIII) sickened, he and an advisor cooked up a plan to take away the throne from its rightful heir, Edward’s half-sister Mary Tudor. He added a device to his will naming a cousin, Jane Grey, as his heir, and he did this to stop his Catholic sister Mary from being crowned and undoing the Protestant Reformation begun by his father. 

The plot failed, and Mary took the throne, eventually executing 16-year-old Jane Grey (she was forced into accepting the crown by her scheming older relatives). 

It’s anyone’s guess if the younger generations would know any of this history enough to be bothered by the ludicrous portrayal of a black African as a king of Tudor England. But as always, people on social media aren’t shy about sharing their views. 

There’s always one wokie who dishonestly pretends not to understand what “everyone’s so upset about.”

This fellow naively believes that when it comes to black and white race issues, that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. 

Ernst has a smashing idea for a groundbreaking cinematic reimagining. 

Do you remember back about a month ago when Google’s new Gemini AI system made every historical character non-white, including the Vikings? User Aesthetica does!

Readers, I don’t know about you, but this one sums it up for me. 

Everybody loves Kamala, right gang? Boy, she’s really the greatest, eh?

Isn’t it funny how just a week and a half ago, everyone knew that Kamala Harris was the most unpopular vice president in history, but today it’s as if she’s the political prom queen? It brings to mind that famous line from Orwell’s 1984: “‘”We’ve always been at war with East Asia.”

First, an assassin almost killed former president and current candidate Donald Trump on live television (not that that is settled fact or anything, at least according to the FBI and Newsweek). At the same time, senile President Joe Biden was claiming that only a command from God could make him step down from the presidential race. And meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats were organizing a palace coup to force Biden to exit the race.

It worked, and Biden dropped out. Somehow we’re supposed to believe he’s still fit to serve the remainder of his term.

Nothing seems real because none of this is real. It is all stagecraft, sleight of hand, misdirection, and gaslighting. We know that term (gaslighting) is overused, but it describes something real: the technique of manipulating someone else’s mind so that the target begins to question whether he’s hallucinating, and whether anything is real. Gaslighting is the primary technique of manipulative narcissists, which is why we see the Democrats deploy it so frequently.

And that’s what Kamala Harris’ presidential candidate debut feels like: utterly unreal. Take a look at one of her first appearances announcing her candidacy from the cavalcade of perversion called RuPaul’s Drag Race.

With her patented unhuman cadence, Kamala reminds the audience that “our rights” are being taken away and “our democracy” is in danger. The Drag Race cast sits next to her like statues with smiles made out of painted plaster-of-Paris. 

Is anyone falling for this Potemkin Village performance? Sure, lots of lefties like former secretary of labor Robert Reich, who just published  a ra-ra piece called “Go Kamala!”

But what about people on social media? 

User Milenka may be team blue, but fair is fair, and she makes accurate points. Many conservatives are tired of seeing the right adopt the left’s depravity and nonsense in a misguided attempt to be more popular. 

Bruce points out that if any adversarial country wants to strike the U.S., we’re showing our weak underbelly in public:

We’ll leave you with a nice shot from user Jeff Moll.