Fall Premiere Pilot Review: The Playboy Club (F)

Playboy Club (NBC)
I don’t really know what to say about this show; it’s everything I expected it to be. Horrible, offensive, oppressive; sexualizing, eroticizing and objectifying women and a white-washed revisionist history.  One of the first scenes, of course, utilizes violence: “Bunny” Maureen is shown physically fighting off an attempted rape.  What did strike me as interesting (in an entirely patriarchal way) was that the main character, Nick Dalton, a regular patron and key holder of the Playboy Club, is portrayed as a rich, successful, womanizer who values “smart” women and actively supports civil rights.  You know, he’s a sensitive womanizer *eye roll*.  This makes it easier for the audience to sympathize and identify with him, thereby excusing the imbalance of power in his oppressive relationships with women and his ignorance to his own privilege.

I would most definitely NOT watch this again.

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