That seems bizarre given that it's about the real Jordan Belfort over Scorcese as a director. But that would be a whole other conversation about how a famous and well liked guy director being powerful in the industry shielded a genuinely terrible man from any criticism and actually boosted the exposure to his current…

Why does the director matter here when we're talking about whether or not unlikable characters based on real life people who were horrible and likely profited from their lives being adapted into fiction are ethical/excusable?
You think Scorcese being involved in something negates the moral point becaaaause?

This looks like the most goddawful shmaltz ever made. And Michelle William's is way too good an actor to be shoved into such a dull, sidelined looking role.

I honestly don't know if it does or it doesn't. I only watched the first episode so I have literally no idea what it's about. I think I remember they were vaguely hedonistic party girls?

Ava from Ex Machina was charismatic. And she murdered for self preservation over fun. I've not seen an audience rail against a character like her before. Same with Amy from Gone Girl. Villainous women get called "bitches", villainous men get called "cool".

The real life Jordan Belfort, whose memoir was adapted into the Oscar winning Wolf of Wall Street by Martin Scorsese, was a fraud and a scam-artist, domestic abuser, and drug addict. He did 22 months in prison.
You don't think his autobiography film adaptation was successful? Less just successful, more actively…

That's funny because Piper Chapman is a character I can't get on with. Her willfully unexamined privileged and her later abusing of said privilege within the prison to keep her fellow prison-mates beneath her makes her intolerable for me. But I'm glad she exists as a character because a show full of 'nice' characters…

It did? Yeesh. It was so unfunny. I forgot it existed.

I never got that impression though. Characters around Sophia were constantly calling her out on her awfulness. The showrunners' whole incentive for creating the show was to create a piece of media with a girl as horrible as some of the male driven films that were at the Oscars a couple of years ago.

Maybe that's the sad part, that many guys do want to see themselves in Jordan Belfort or Mark Zuckerburg. Do you think that's true? That's why their biographies were successful and largely unexamined from a moral PoV.

Which sucks because the show's creators specifically said they wanted to create the kind of female character that male driven media is full of. In terms of broadening roles for women and allowing them to play as mean as their male counterparts in business you think would be cause for celebration.
I don't want to…

On one hand I agree that having the real Sophia's reputation and narrative attached probably brought things down, but I don't know, we watched Wolf of Wall Street well enough, didn't we?

I loved Ru Paul as well! Hopefully you'll feel satisfied with the season's end. I personally didn't feel like it needed another one.
But I'm sad that Britt Robinson won't be back in such a meaty role for her. I think playing that kind of messy, mean character has got to be a lot of actresses' dream.

Aw dang, that's a real shame. More a shame it was announced like that than anything, because I feel like the one season really said all that needed to be said and didn't actually need a second season anyway.

It takes one click to check my friend.

Seek help

They must be so proud of their daddy who sits in the dark room on his computer barraging media outlets with MRA takes in the comments section. What a ''''man''''.

If by "those people" you mean MRA pieces of manbaby shit, then yeah. I live for the day when they're fully shunned from our public spaces.

FEMINAZI'S STOLE MY ICECREAM WAH WAH WAH WAAAAHHH!

They always seem to look like that, don't they? Wonder if there is some correlation between their obsessive anger towards women and…. that.