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. 

TV Serial Review : Sci Fi series

I suppose the basic premises of all Sci Fi series are:
1. The scientific and technological advancements of the future do not help human beings to transcend their petty primitive instincts and behaviours.

2. Even when you basically possess a magic wand with all the scientific and technological development, it's far easier to correct the past than correct the dystopian present.

Is our imagination just the sum of our experiences?

TV Serial Review: The Red Tent

The series portrays retreats to secluded tents during menstruation as some kind of personal space for females where they have gala time. It seems the author, Anita Diamant, had no idea of such practice in ancient Israel and based it on practices in pre-modern societies.

If she had done some research on West and South Asian societies then she would have observed that;
- such seclusion, either in a separate hut or in a separate room, wasn't a choice for females
- females during that period were considered impure

So she basically romanticized a barbaric practice. It's unknown whether this practice was started before the rise of patriarchy when families were centered around women. But whatever its origins the practice was ritualized and made compulsory among both tribes and non-tribes in these regions in patriarchal religions. She is not much different from right-wing nutcases who defend it as resting period for females or hygienic  practice implemented by males.