When I was growing up, my mom watched the Lifetime channel a lot. While the plot would sometimes vary, the vibe was always the same. It was high drama that usually involved a woman being victimized by someone — usually a man — and the woman had to struggle and fight back to achieve some normalcy or righteous revenge. Usually the latter.
To this day, I still don't understand the appeal, but I'm not a woman. I suppose a woman wouldn't understand my wanting to watch "Boondock Saints" for the 500th time, because it wasn't made for her.
There are movies made for all kinds of people, and each genre scratches an itch in different people. There's nothing wrong with that. Different strokes for different folks.
But you kind of file these movies away into their little genres. The term "Lifetime Movie" describes movies that have that Lifetime vibe. "Hallmark movie" is often applied to Christmas movies that mix heavily with the romance genre.
So why don't we have that for movies that are obviously left-wing movies?
Now, before you scroll down to leave a comment that "all movies are left-wing movies." No, they're not. While a lot of left-wingers make movies, not every movie is a left-wing movie. I've covered more than a few on this very website alone that didn't dip into socio-political territory at all.
That said, many are blatantly socio-political, and various companies like Disney are having a hard time releasing anything that doesn't have a message attached to it. The propagandistic nature of some films is so overt that the story becomes the injection, not the story it's trying to tell.
And then some aren't necessarily pushing a message outright, but have so much modernity included that it's pretty obvious they're trying to normalize that kind of thinking, and it's this kind of movie I want to talk about.
Last week, I wrote an article about a movie called "The Savant," starring Jessica Chastain. The series was supposed to be released last year, but the murder of Charlie Kirk had Apple deciding that they should hold onto it and release it later. It's about a woman whose entire job is to infiltrate and expose hate groups and extremist behaviors online. If the series was trying to highlight how online extremism can lead to tragedy and violence, then I would've thought that kind of show would've been perfect to release around that time, maybe even in Charlie's honor.
But it isn't about online extremism. Not really. It's about reinforcing the narrative that the right is radical and dangerous. I can safely assume Apple held it back because the reaction to the movie would've hit Apple, center mass, right in their PR substantially. It's hard to keep up appearances and push the message you want when the news is dominated by the polar opposite of your narrative.
It still is, but Apple decided that this summer is a good time to release the series.
Read: With the SPLC Indicted for Funneling Money to Hate Groups, Apple's New Show Looks a Tad Suspicious
But there are others I can point you to in recent history.
Remember the show "Adolescence?" It's a Netflix series about a young boy radicalized by the online manosphere, who then goes and kills one of his female classmates. The four-episode series was effectively an emotional finger wag at parents to scare them into supervising their kids every minute they're on the internet and keep them away from harmful opinions. It paints masculinity as inherently toxic, and practically fetishizes the fear and dread around said "toxicity."
You know that was the aim of the show, because it won 16 different awards and had professional critics fawning over it as if it were the greatest series to hit television ever. Really, it's just Netflix slop that managed to hit the critics in all its erogenous zones.
And I've got great news! The writer of this show, Jack Thorne, is coming out with another one, and this time, he's going after Christianity!
The show is called "Falling," and it's about a white nun who falls in love with a black priest, and their forbidden romance has her questioning and/or abandoning their vows and possibly their faith.
Falling, a new Channel 4 series where a nun 'falls' for a black man who rejects her advances.
— Jonathan Wong (@WONGthink) April 27, 2026
Written by Jack Thorne, the creator of Adolescence. pic.twitter.com/1Jj1Co7dAn
They say write what drives you, and what's driving this writer is a barely disguised fetish for dramatizing conflict around groups and people he doesn't like. Naturally, Thorne is getting all the praise and deals because his fetish happens to be shared with many in the industry.
But this is hardly actual art. It's dramatized propaganda held aloft by a small group of people with a bone to pick with you, a traditionalist who reads the Bible and thinks masculinity is actually pretty great.
These shows and movies are for two groups: the ignorant and the already converted. It's meant to sway people who don't know any better into having the same irrational fears and prejudices as those who are already fully committed to the psychopathy.
I'd just call it propaganda, but that's not going to cut it. It's something else entirely, but it needs a name. Putting a name to it will make it easier to identify and push back on.
