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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
I was 50/50 on whether it would be just a classic "the most terrifying thing in the world is a woman" trope, but I thought it did a great job of making the man who mind controlled the woman into the villain in a way that wasn't like a hamfisted cartoonish evil. The way that the cursed woman becomes aware and in touch with the situation and the two characters shift their culpability and who is "supposed to know" also really helped this without hitting you over the head. Trying to stay to mild spoilers but the mechanism implied by the phone call and the dream conversation made the curse land as like the hazards of a consumer product that was very resonant with a certain class of other consumer products that sell a disembodied form of a person that dominate the world rn. Rather than it being "women be evil" it pulled off a good balance of knowing and unknowing evil by the person who actually laid the curse