Apparently when the writers of programming can't come up with a engaging idea or a cogent plot, the tendency is to compensate by going full on with artificial and PC nonsense and compensation or substitution for actual thinking.
Sadly this has happened with "Trapped" and the second season is just terrible mess of over-the-top virtue signaling PC .-- and the forced nature of the PC is cringeworthy.
I have NO problem with social issues and messages being integrated in proper measure into a story, either allegorically or directly. Season one had a great story, mystery in an literally historically insular place that is more and more connected to the outside. yes some social issues were a part of the story, arrogant foreign Danes, domestic violence, and views of immigrants or foreigners. Those social issues were well integrated.
But in Season two there is no engaging story, no story at all really. No mystery since we can tell immediately where it is going. and instead it is a full force bludgeoning onslaught of PC messages, and cultural of aggrievement identity politics as a substitute for a story.
One can imagine the initial creative meetings for season two. Apparently instead of bringing the guidelines for storytelling, you know: plot, storytelling, setting, character development, denouement etc; apparently someone instead brought "PC checklist" and they went with that instead of a story: immigrant guy, black guy, gay guy (consolidated into black, immigrant, gay guy, beaten woman, murdered woman, xenophobes, greedy Americans capitalists, etc etc.
Sadly this has happened with "Trapped" and the second season is just terrible mess of over-the-top virtue signaling PC .-- and the forced nature of the PC is cringeworthy.
I have NO problem with social issues and messages being integrated in proper measure into a story, either allegorically or directly. Season one had a great story, mystery in an literally historically insular place that is more and more connected to the outside. yes some social issues were a part of the story, arrogant foreign Danes, domestic violence, and views of immigrants or foreigners. Those social issues were well integrated.
But in Season two there is no engaging story, no story at all really. No mystery since we can tell immediately where it is going. and instead it is a full force bludgeoning onslaught of PC messages, and cultural of aggrievement identity politics as a substitute for a story.
One can imagine the initial creative meetings for season two. Apparently instead of bringing the guidelines for storytelling, you know: plot, storytelling, setting, character development, denouement etc; apparently someone instead brought "PC checklist" and they went with that instead of a story: immigrant guy, black guy, gay guy (consolidated into black, immigrant, gay guy, beaten woman, murdered woman, xenophobes, greedy Americans capitalists, etc etc.