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I found this film extremely interesting as someone who is religious myself. It paints a picture of how atheists/agnostics live and view life. I could careless that the film is mocking religion but I think the thing that bothered me the most is I feel like the message of the film is lost. Like which is bad? Lying to people to make them feel better or telling the truth and making them miserable? Am I supposed to learn from this that I should live in the gray? Personally it felt like the film didn't have much of a true message at all. The only thing I got from it was people are stupid and consistently make poor judgements but they also know whats best for them. Just didn't make sense to me.

Honestly the series starts out solid and the politics aren't too bad. Black people fighting for their community and for equality is always a good thing, but by season 3 they were taking it way too far. The Black Lives Matter movement took full effect and turned it into a show trying to push a desire for white guilt to take over. Olivia's character became ridiculous with anger towards cops and white people but she seems to forget she's half white in the show, she even goes as far as to harm her mother's career to become the "savior" of the black community. The show begins portraying white problems as less important and an example of "privilege". Multiple times white characters are incredibly disrespected by black characters and when the white characters are hurt they are told to check their privilege. I made it through all the seasons barely, but I don't know how much more I can handle.

I don't generally enjoy romance or any kind of sad drama for that matter but I really enjoyed this film. It hits on some hard subjects, things that happen to people all the time but no one ever wants to really talk about. I also loved the message about fate and how in reality it's our choices that determine our destiny, not some random whim of the universe. My only issue was I had a hard time feeling any empathy for the main female actress. I don't know if it's the character's personality or her circumstances but there was a disconnect there. Overall, it's a very sweet film with a great message, we determine what it takes to make our own destiny. Love is a choice.