Friday, January 29, 2021

TV Serial Review: Call My Agent

I felt this is a deviously anti-feminist serial. All the shenanigans that the females at ASK (especially Andrea) pull through are either silly or downright impossible. However, the feat that Elise achieved to bring down ASK is actually believable. She used;
- discrimination against females to gain sympathy 
- struggle with motherhood to gain trust
from Andrea.

If you check all the tricks that Andrea played are built on absurdity(so is the case with others in ASK too) whereas all the tricks Elise played were based on the ground realities. In this comedy drama, the villain doesn't employ silliness but tactics based on reality. 

Andrea's downfall was down to her being a female at the end of the day. And this was exploited by another female. This is basically a stereotype that has endured from time immemorial.