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100 Humans (2020)
The dumbest thing on Netflix
The premise of this show is interesting enough to suck you in, but none of the "experiments" are remotely legitimate. I watched 4 episodes and each one gets a little bit worse than the last. They take topics that *could* be legitimately interesting to do case studies on, then do very small sample sizes and intentionally set the parameters to ensure their desired outcome. In episode 4 the test subject has a gun with blanks, and is told to shoot anyone who points a gun at them. At the end, two guys jump out side by side with cell phones - and the show tells us that people are more likely to shoot the person of color. The problem is the data is completely insincere because the white guy pops up holding his phone like hes looking through his pictures, and the black guy swivels around a corner with his arm stretched out completely pointing at the person with the gun, and even his second hand supporting it - with legs spread out in a controlling stance like he's planting his feet to shoot. They never swapped the postures or anything to see if that changed anything. That is just one example of many, many, many (intentional) problems with their testing. It's not experiments it's just a soap box. Save your time.
Grey's Anatomy: Silent All These Years (2019)
Great first half
The first half of this episode is brilliantly paced and a well written statement on the the importance of consent. Beautifully written and impossible to ignore the weight and emotion of everything happening. I don't usually like the fact that the show frequently makes a patient come into the hospital and struggle with issues that conveniently coincide with what one of the main characters is also going through, but in this case the parallel of the patient's assault and the final culmination of what Jo has been seeking were as poignant as they could possibly be.
It lost a few points towards the end when it started trying hard to pull at your heart strings for a memorable moment. The woman is struggling with the internal debate of whether to report her attacker, and she specifically says, several times, that she doesn't want any other doctors to help her she feels ashamed and wants to be allowed to have some privacy. Which they listened to her at first, but then once she was ready for surgery they literally lined up every female cast member they could find and paraded her through the hallways on display. I fully understand that it was supposed to be a moment of empowerment and solidarity for women, but it came across contrived and, ironically, against the patients direct wishes. So that whole segment was poorly written enough to lose several stars.
Updated/edited to say... that segment on its own should have been very powerful. Everything that came before it was too. But the earlier scene where she doesn't want even Teddy to come in the room because she doesn't want any other doctors to be involved or see her like that just too strongly contradicts the idea that it was ok for jo, without the patients permission, to go lining up every female doctor she could find. So it wasn't that scene itself that was the issue, it was the writing setting it up.
In the end, Jo and Alex are the star of the show, and any episode that Meredith is kept to more or less a cameo is a win in my book. Overall a great episode and one of the best the series has ever done. Just can't give it 10 stars when there are writing inconsistencies