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Why pretend this has any historic significance and call it what it is? Misogynistic Anglo-Saxon capitalist propaganda. How many bearded clichés can you put in one episode? So this is "Asian" so it must have Yin and Yang in there somewhere, oh and yes, let's mention "The Art of War" and since Weinstein's name is attached let the innocent boy walk through a harem of lusty naked women.. How ridiculous! I don't understand why women even play these parts at all? The exotic willing "Oriental" woman is a racist stereotype and should be flushed down the toilet with the rest of all the stereotypes. These courts with all the back stabbing and stupid banter is a silly representation of Anglo-Saxon board rooms where inflated egos pretend they "rule" like archaic kings and people literally have to bow and accept their superiority. Make it stop. Please!!

First responses: 1. This is not a movie, this is show and tell. 2. I understand the portrait of the underlying issues but jeez, please take your audience a little more serious.

Explanation/apologies: ok, maybe I have different standards but I think movies should be engaging, as in, I want to involve you, the audience, in the issues at hand, and this movie doesn't. Whether you like this or not but movies are Medieval morality stories where a person has to make a choice between good and bad. However, in this story someone else has already taken the decision for the main character. Had I been a woman I'd be very upset by this sexist, she has to do what I tell her, approach. For not one moment I believed she could make a decision on her own. Result: it was boring to watch, I fast forwarded it. Whoever wrote and I'm sure directed as well, learn about suspense, conflict and stakes.

The main character in this series is a cartoon-like superhero with great superpowers and a magnificent back story. But since it's not a book nor an American I guess it doesn't count. I want to bet that a similar story set in Cleveland or Arizona, but with superhero costumes would get excellent reviews.

I look at what drives a story and finding out what the hell is going on is a great way to propel a plot, just add a few complicated relationships and voila, you have your Netflix show.

The language choices the high tech Russians and even the piano playing and the stapling, that is all part of the cartoon world reality.

My major praise is that this movie is told from a female POV and that just rocks. We see that more an more and telling by the comments most dudes don't seem to get it, welcome to the 21st century fellows!