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Netflix's My Dad the Bounty Hunter is pretty sneaky.

The story starts with a broken family, black protagonist, a dad, who's a bounty hunter working for the conglomerate, who can't seem to get his stuff together, the typical Netflix leftist propaganda affair.

Then they starts to understand each other, the family got back together, they became a nuclear family. The Dad also left the conglomerate after finding out that they have been exploiting slave and child labor on Chillion-5

Not just that, the second season sees the mother making up with her parents, and we see the conglomerate playing the IMF/WorldBank's playbook, offering lucrative loans to the doloraami planet in exchange for building out infrastrutures to extract a special ore native to the planet exclusively for the conglomerate. (And prior to that, we see the 'Galaxy's best wings' diner turned into a vegan/bugs restaurant.)

And to top it all off, the conglomerate agent overseeing the operation, lobbying the adversarial political powers is actually a lizard wearing a human suit.

How this show flies under the Netflix radar is beyond me. Season 2 ends with the sort of passive cliffhanger that tells me the producers are not expecting to get SS3.

I have no idea if all of this is intentional (and hidden away in the SS2 to boot) but when working on film project, most things are intentional.

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deleted 2y ago

Interesting! Thanks for this breakdown.

Piriya ⚡🟧 2y ago

One more thing I noticed, this is a sensitive subject, most of the Chillas (an enslaved species) have greenish blue eyes.

This might be (yet another) coincidence, but the Uygurs, or the native citizen of former Tajikstan, a nation enslaved, are referred to as the 'Blue-eyed Chinese.

Piriya ⚡🟧 2y ago

The main producer of the show produced another series call "We The People" on Netflix.

here's from one of the episodes.

Taxes

The lyrics focuses on how one should pay their taxes but also drops lines like,

"Taxes pay for your roads and your interstates, and your local library that they just 'had to' renovate",

"You see, 9% of taxes help provide the poor, but 15% goes to defend and supplyin' the war"

"Little homie you'd better pay your tax...You see, to understand the present you must first learn the past, the American revolution all started because of tax. 'Cause Britain was overtaxing on sugar and paper and colonies was like Nah, bruh, I'ma have ta see you later."

"How the government spend money is all up for debate but what you gotta pay is based on much you make"

The whole series drops pretty sneaky remarks on the second part.

but it's co-produced by Barrack-Michael Obama..

hmm...

Also, the show got abysmal reviews by 'critics'