The article makes a big deal about the craft of persuasion (tailoring speeches and memes to foreigners to take account of local history, culture, and sensibilities) and trying to give Ukraine credit for doing such a good job at it.
To me, the real answer is that the Western establishments have been fighting a proxy conflict against Russia for years, Western Media got their marching orders about what side to tell people to support, and a public that was bored with Season 2 of Covid seamlessly adopted The Next Current Thing they were told to support without skipping a beat.
I frankly was surprised to even see a season 2. Season 1 was brilliant, but it didn't seem possible to do a follow up that wouldn't be lame. I was wrong, but I'm still happy we got these two seasons. I imagine it's pretty hard to keep up this level of weirdness.
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The first half of the first season was absolutely great. It went downhill quickly when his sister showed up. By the end of the season, it was awful.
Season 2 is simply forgettable.
The article makes a big deal about the craft of persuasion (tailoring speeches and memes to foreigners to take account of local history, culture, and sensibilities) and trying to give Ukraine credit for doing such a good job at it.
To me, the real answer is that the Western establishments have been fighting a proxy conflict against Russia for years, Western Media got their marching orders about what side to tell people to support, and a public that was bored with Season 2 of Covid seamlessly adopted The Next Current Thing they were told to support without skipping a beat.
I frankly was surprised to even see a season 2. Season 1 was brilliant, but it didn't seem possible to do a follow up that wouldn't be lame. I was wrong, but I'm still happy we got these two seasons. I imagine it's pretty hard to keep up this level of weirdness.