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Myths & Monsters (2017)
As somebody else said: Why so White?
Is this beautifully done and well-edited? Mostly, yes. Are the myths explored really interesting? Definitely! Are ANY of them from beyond Europe? Nope.
Generally, the episodes had 3 myths: one Celtic/British, one Greek/Roman, and one Old Norse/Viking. Yet the presenters kept saying that these were illustrating the HUMAN condition, and myths about this and that are UNIVERSAL. As someone with a degree in Archaeology, none of my professors would have allowed such sweeping statements without more diverse evidence. There are SO MANY interesting myths around the world, why keep focusing on only the European ones? Especially since these are among the most quoted myths in Western education anyway.
Works great as a general introduction to some of the themes in myths and how mythology works, but for myths themselves, go somewhere else.
Waking the Dead: Walking on Water: Part 1 (2003)
TW for this double ep
So I have seen no trigger warnings for this episode and just wanted to get this out there, as I found it very frustrating, and others might fing this episode triggering (and while it is very old, it might still be needed). Disclosure, I am cis, so this is not analysing, just TWs.
TRIGGER WARNING: transphobia (deadnaming, use of wrong pronouns, etc)