September 2023

elias-rights:

Actually, I think the finale (and, indeed, most of season five) diminishes the value of TMA’s political themes. Not only does the in-your-face-ness of it come across as hamfisted and clumsy (we get it; we live in a society), but the fact that a small group of people were able to vanquish the entities and the terrible cost that was paid is glossed over (thus giving the ending a firmly hopeful if not outright cheerful quality) automatically undoes everything worthwhile earlier seasons had to say about monstrous systems larger than any individual.