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LezWatch.TVThe show of the day is Creamerie with 2 characters and a show score of 56.00
Creamerie – LezWatch.TV
Creamerie is a TV Show that has at least one queer character and airs onTVNZ 1 – A viral plague has swept the earth, and in a matter of weeks, it decimated 99% of men. The 1% were sent to The Facility in New Zealand but didn't survive. Or did they?
The show of the day is Creamerie with 2 characters and a show score of 56.00
Creamerie – LezWatch.TV
Creamerie is a TV Show that has at least one queer character and airs onTVNZ 1 – A viral plague has swept the earth, and in a matter of weeks, it decimated 99% of men. The 1% were sent to The Facility in New Zealand but didn't survive. Or did they?
StrypeyJust started #watching season 1 of Creamerie. A dark kiwi comedy set in a Wellness dystopia after a global plague, which doesn't turn anyone into zombies, but did kill all males. Mostly not laugh out loud funny, but it's a relief to see some satire with a bit of bite again.
Watching it on TVNZ+ on a friend's. The ads are a bit annoying, but otherwise it's not too bad.
Manic Emo Dream GhoulWell, never trust Tusky. I just wrote the longest thing about Creamerie and again, Tusky ate it.
Creamerie is the kind of show that makes me glad the creators own their own production company, as I don't think Netflix or Apple or Disney would let them do whatever this that they are doing. It does whole heaps of things that are firmly in the "I don't recommend this" camp, yet somehow it works. Season 1 was even more noticeable, was it dark comedy, or action, or horror, or dystopian, or thriller, or social commentary; who knows. It was just chaotic mood whiplash that usually goes all over the place within the same scene, and somehow it works. Consider first season was about a fictional pandemic and halfway through filming the real pandemic hit and the cast had to put away their cameras with hours of notice, it was an experience for the makers and the audience.
Season 1 was all about the specific kind of white feminism that's about enforcing strict pyramid hierarchy, entirely fuelled by concerned trolling and therapy speak. I don't think I've ever seen this subject matter being tackled before. I'm also glad that the second season moved on from that, as I don't think they have enough material to cover two seasons of this.
The second season is more about a hypothetical dystopia in, what if men are treated like women via systemic oppression. Now, I usually detest dystopian genre. Almost exclusively they are some flavour of "It's dystopian fiction when others treat us like how we treated them in reality. Status quo? That's utopian yay". Very few dystopias are about wanting equality or restorative justice, and most are about the power hoarders need to justify being power hoarders, so they don't slip off their real or imagined zero-sum games. The very premises of S2 Creamerie made this particular problem a non problem.
What if the gender politics are flipped, where the default human existence is the female one, and men exist only as fertility aid to women? Don't get me wrong, the men are "treated well", "protected" in a locked space and milked for their sperm, and if they are compliant enough they get rewarded with nachos and jelly. How men are so lucky to be more equal, after all the women don't get nachos and jelly and they have to work for food. They are resources to be fought over by women, and their entire worth is down to as supplement so women can have babies, with a side of propaganda posing. I think about The Second Sex a lot, in that men exist in this context as a socially othered, automatically gazed existence with their humanity stripped away.
I love the approach to this reverse systemic oppression here. Some men were defeated and accepted that they need to be loyal to the female masters and would use their autonomy to fuck over other men so they can be pick me good boys. Robby and a few of the men are survivors, they did everything they can as cleverly as they can to navigate this world, yet they still cannot get anywhere unless the women allies were willing to help them. Because a visible man is a man in danger of being hunted as sexual prey. The Sea Captain liked and bonded with Robby, yet she's more than happy to sell him off to lifetime of forced sperm extraction slavery because, men are not actually real people right? And it's only luck that, for whatever fault the trio protagonists have, they always considered Robby a friend who they'd do anything to protect him as a fellow human being. And the women weren't smarter or more capable, their social power came from being women and that alone. I think about Kazuko Higa a lot throughout this. The fact that she survived the real historical situation where she was trapped on an island with 32 thirsty men who all wanted to be her vagina's owner, then just to smear her through mass media because destroying a woman is just so easy even when it's pretty clear that these men are mostly rapists and murderers who were true dangers to her life. I think about her a lot.
What's particularly confronting to me is how violent the imagery felt: yet if I'm going to be honest it's no more violent or brutal than media's usual portrayal of female victims. We are just so desensitised to this whole women being reduced to her fertility, her sexual subserviency, as well as how her body can be abused so men can fap to it while pretend this is so very awful (I'm looking at you, GRRM and yes I do notice how much of his prose of violence against women were with intend of man masturbating to it). And with men, because I'm not used to this degree of dehumanisation somehow being treated equally poorly as women always have been is viscerally worse. I'm not proud of this.
Despite what I just typed in there, Creamerie is still very very funny. In a specific way where I'd laugh, then I'd feel bad because wow that was so edgelord and should I have laughed there?
I do need to point out that for the context of this show, only cis binary people exist, and it's strictly XX=female XY=male. The feeling I'm getting, is because it's made by a group of cis people, they have this understanding that they can't handle the nuance of non-cis non-binary well within six hours when it's already more chaotic than it has any right to be. I personally don't mind that, it shows good insight to know what topics are outside of their expertise and not using marginalised people as tick the box diversity point scoring. I don't think they could've handled non-cis non-binary well, and I think it's wise to not jump in and do a shit job of it just because they felt they ought to.
So I don't know if there will be a season 3. If season 1's "creamerie" referred to the dairy and season 2's "creamerie" referred to jizz, I don't know where season 3 will end up going to. Whatever happened to Jamie's cows?
This show is devoted to name everything a show shouldn't do, then just intentionally broke it. Of course a tragic loss of an oppressed minority was in the context of "playing IRL Call of Duty". A good take away is don't play with tranquiliser dart shooting at each other on a river, but no because men are the other "born lesser" sex, the real problem is the Y chromosome made them want war games.
I constantly find myself feeling guilty for finding the intentionally hilarious moments hilarious.
I usually prefer my social commentary more subtle, Creamerie just dialled everything to 12 to the point that trying to comment on its ham-handedness is essentially missing the point. Given so much of the first seasons was about criticism of that particular kind of white feminism that's about exploiting women, season two is more traditional kind of over the top gender politics.
What if the men are the ones who have biological disadvantage that can be twisted into "needing protection for their own good"? What if the world defaults with the assumption that a human is a woman, and a man as at most an afterthought? What if the men are the second gender/sex where their only worth is to provide fertility to women? What if men are deemed as prize for women to fight over, but also they are socialised to believe their entire goal is to be a "good boy" so they can be rewarded with minor materialistics like nachos and sweets? Oh, but men are protected, they are "more equal", as long as they knew their place as subservient to women's agency. The car scene is essentially where the only absolutely minority is a white man, also one of the few men who is fighting for his autonomy.
Meanwhile, while the women are busy fucking over each other for ownership of a man to prove their fragile femininity, they are still not exactly cooperative with each other either, just now it's the infighting between the women to achieve the top queen status.
Like this whole thing is so much more of social commentary regarding to traditional paternalistic hierarchy, just flip the gender and find-replace the "toxic masculinity" into "toxic femininity". The unflinching female-gazing is both deprived and intentionally offputting.
It's absolutely ridiculous, but the most ridiculous thing about it is when it's not the dystopian fiction, but the male version of dystopian reality, we got used to it and just decided because this absurdity is the norm so it's fine.
It's also genuinely funny, in an edgelord dark humour kind of way. It's really really edgelordy though.
I can say with sincerity that if I didn't know about the director's firm stance about actor safety, and intimacy consultant was involved in all of the sexual scenes, I'd actually feel bad watching this. The fact that I'm more viscerally upset about men being sexually exploited specifically because it's rare in fictions, says a lot about the status quo and my own unconscious bias about how women are treated by the media, and largely rest of the world.
Show of the Day: Creamerie
The LezWatch.TV show of the day is "Creamerie," with 2 characters and an overall score of 56.00. - #LWTVsotd #Creamerie - https://lezwatchtv.com/show/creamerie/
Creamerie – LezWatch.TV
Creamerie is a TV Show that has at least one queer character and airs onTVNZ 1 – A viral plague has swept the earth, and in a matter of weeks, it decimated 99% of men. The 1% were sent to The Facility in New Zealand but didn't survive. Or did they?
I just looked up and realised there is a second season of Creamerie and my life is now so much better. I'd love to have access of it on DVD instead of streaming though.
Creamerie is like, what Deadloch would be but with scifi flavour. Also raging brilliant Asian women leads. Also utterly absurd. And dare I say, Tasmania and NZ backdrop can look very similar on screen too. We are just really muddy people.
My dream genre is modern aromantic gothic flavoured honkaku mystery preferably set in somewhere that isn't US. It seems like my taste is more "feel" based than genre based.
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