Trust me, it’s an excellent joke, and an excellent analogy. You’ve got the violence, but absolutely no explanation of why it may have been necessary or justified, and absolutely none of the post-violence self-reflection in order to learn from the experience. If that’s not a perfect description of hard-right ideology, I don’t know what is.

Edit: or is it an allegory…🤔

And not just the writing. So many of the second line characters that had been nothing but cardboard the whole series suddenly bloomed. I had really been questioning the ability of some of the performers on my first watch through, but it turns out it was a script/direction/production problem because they all suddenly came to life when the gloves came off.