Chapotraphouse

The KGB is a bunch of drug dealing r*pists who utilize Moscow's huge underclass of prostitutes to blackmail innocent, good-hearted Coca-Cola executives and then murders the prostitutes to leave no loose ends [THIS IS NOT IN ANY WAY AN EXAGGERATION]. KGB agents are wife-beating drunkards who love to neglect their children. Everyone in Moscow supports the death of prostitutes because the official party line is that they are moral failures who stain socialism. The media is not allowed to report on any systemic crime. When somebody speaks to you at the market, you begin by saying "GET AWAY CAPITALIST SCUM" before you barter, since you're always being watched. Whenever anyone says anything about Moscow, they always qualify it by mentioning that it's the worst place on earth, it sucks, they hate it there. It's unsafe to be a woman walking the streets of Moscow at night because lecherous drunks lurk on every corner. There is never sunlight. The CIA are unambiguously good guys fighting the good fight (what? why? unimportant).

I'm sure at some point they add tiny wrinkles of moral complexity to the CIA (they make George Bush senior look like an idiot in his one early appearance) but by and large this is an America Good, Soviets Evil story. I watched four episodes before I tapped out. I got that far because the set and costume design are great and the main actors do really good work and my wife and I have a big crush on Vic Michaelis.

Eh, I pick my poison these days and this may be too much for me

Like I used to be able to hate watch but it was so bad it was making me physically unwell, the anger was bad for my health

These days I stick to getting really drunk or high and hate watching the MCU slop once every year or 2 to catch up on that nonsense, continuing my hate endless hate watch of new Simpsons episodes and hate listening to this god awful boomer lib radio host while I'm driving for work who I've been thinking about about making an effort post about because of just how much he sucks (neoliberal war monger biden dead ender democrat shill piece of shit who calls himself progressive)

Final edit: if I do make that effort post I'll be including the fact that his show takes calls and asking if anyone wants to join in a bit of a different kind of brigading

If any of you are wondering why I think this guy is worth going after let me drop this on you all, one week ago today he used the word tankie and it wasn't the first time

Every day we allow this to go unanswered feels wrong to me but I cannot make any impact on his audience alone