#5 of podcast: Netflix Unorthodox – Part I

13 Jan #5 of podcast: Netflix Unorthodox – Part I

Posted at 10:33h in Podcast, Unorthodox by Frieda Vizel 0 Comments

The Very Not Normal Podcast; Episode #5: Netflix Unorthodox – Part I.

Netflix’s mini-series is an ex-hasidic cliched fairytale that is problematic on many, many levels.
Part one is a takedown of the show (be forewarned, I am not a fan) and part two will be analysis of if and why it all matters.

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MENTIONED:

• The Netflix show – here’s the trailer
• My criticism of some of the errors on Unorthodox in the Jewish Daily Forward and on this blog some detailed illustrations of problems. Also, here is a post I wrote years ago on how Hollywood likes to typecast Hasidim. It still holds true.
• The New Yorker Review of Unorthodox
• Some memoirs I mentioned:
  • Unorthodox / Deborah Feldman (my review here)
  • Becoming Eve / Abby Stein (my review here)
  • Glass Castle / Jeannette Walls
  • Educated / Tara Westover
  • In Order to Live / Yeonmi Park
  • Infidel / Ayan Hirsi Ali
• Bill Gates on Tara Westover
• Obama on Tara Westover
• The Reddit Sub on men writing women.
• Shtisel, the Israeli TV show