In this episode we have a family that moves to a nice, beautiful community where the local cultural enforcement authorities ensure everyone has an optimal experience. One member of the family, Jenna, wants no part of the new, beautiful life and she is determined to get back to her previous life where she disrespected her parents, hung out with a sketch crowd, got all tatted up, while pursuing the fine occupation of meth addict and a street hoor.
***Spoilers Ahead***
Understand, folks, that the show runners present Jenna as the tragic protagonist heroine, righteously rebelling against the white bread, safe, suburban environment. No surprise here, given the zeitgeist where such environments are deemed not just boring or uncool, but actually evil.
So when the surprise ending reveals that Jenna has been taken away and turned into fertilizer for the community's evergreen trees, I believe we're supposed to see that as a reminder that if we venture too far into suburbia, we are doomed.
I saw it differently though. Evergreen is a lovely community and we cannot allow our community experience to be degraded by anarchists. It's reassuring that in the end even those who would diminish the community end up contributing... even it's by becoming fertilizer.
***Spoilers Ahead***
Understand, folks, that the show runners present Jenna as the tragic protagonist heroine, righteously rebelling against the white bread, safe, suburban environment. No surprise here, given the zeitgeist where such environments are deemed not just boring or uncool, but actually evil.
So when the surprise ending reveals that Jenna has been taken away and turned into fertilizer for the community's evergreen trees, I believe we're supposed to see that as a reminder that if we venture too far into suburbia, we are doomed.
I saw it differently though. Evergreen is a lovely community and we cannot allow our community experience to be degraded by anarchists. It's reassuring that in the end even those who would diminish the community end up contributing... even it's by becoming fertilizer.