| Millennium Although this show was created by
a man (Chris Carter of the X-Files) it is a good example of misandriy (hatred of men) in
television content. Let's start with the actress that plays the main characters wife. I
can't stand her, that's my opinion. It might be because of her role in a previous series
where she betrayed her husband (although if I remember correctly it was, somehow, for his
own good.) I think, I just plain don't like the way she looks. If I had to pick an actress
to play a humorless, lesbian, feminist demon, I'd pick her. Even compared to her
husband (Frank Black played by xx), a man who is so grim he has frown lines deep enough to
hide small children, even compared to him she seems frigid. But wait, they had one episode
where her sister was trying to convince her that she wasn't happy. Anyone who knows
anything about feminism knows that feminists have to be miserable in order to be happy.
The 2 or 3 minute scene would make a perfect commercial against marriage with American
women: One god-awful, humorless, bore trying to convince the other that she should be
unhappy. Aside from that, the show consists of 1 of 3 messages, the world may or may not
end, and men (not mankind) are evil, and last but not least, men should listen to women
(even or perhaps especially, female children). As far as Chris Carters involvement, the
sci-fi mystery component could not possibly be smaller. In one episode Frank is
investigating the case of a woman who was molested as a child. During the investigation he
has visions of her father molesting her. And, that's it--one hour later, surprise, the
father was in fact molesting the daughter! How about those special effects, showing
visions of the father going into the girls bed room--I'd like to see a special to find out
how that's done. Oh and by the way, in case you missed the moral of the story, hidden in
all those sci-fi special effects and plot twists: men are evil because they molest little
girls.
Over the years, the show has grown, and is more painful than ever before. In what I
call "The Stupid Poetry" episode, Frank explains the incredible power of the
Millennium group to his wife, our postergirl for why American men shop for Asian women for
wives. He explains that it is more or less up to him to save the planet, his family
included. He explains that he doesn't really like the Millennium group, but they seem to
know a little something about this whole end of the world thing. Forget that Frank is
supposed to be god's gift to the world of investigation, and that somehow he is just now
finding out what the millennium group is all about. Katherine, the aforementioned
miserable wretch responds by saying more or less, that she didn't like Frank or his
attitude. She just doesn't appreciate this end of the world stuff, and if Frank would just
spend more time with the family, everything would be OK You know how men are, always
thinking of some excuse to go out and play with their friends. In the mean time, the
producers of the show managed to find the most annoying song known to man, it seemed to
last forever. As the song persisted, disjointed images of the millennium group female, who
was "freaking out," were displayed.
Finally Cancelled - Now just a bad memory. |
