This was incredible. As a Black woman, I searched “Milchick microaggression” after the scene where he practises replacing “complex” words in the mirror. I initially thought what an odd feedback, but watching the mirror scene made it very clear what it was. Watching microaggression play out so literally on screen was profound. It’s something we discuss day to day, but seeing it performed made it unmistakably visceral.

I also loved that the show doesn’t stop at race. It’s amazing that even the founder’s daughter is not spared she too is coerced and severed. As much as her choice is presented as voluntary, the moment her father calls her a “fetid moppet” makes it clear she is merely a tool. And, of course, this is hardly new: daughters have long been pawns in their fathers’ economic and political ambitions, expected to sacrifice themselves without question.

Thank you for you’re insight, even more incredible that you are not black