The Infected Trilogy

I read (and listen) to a lot of horror stories and I was pleasantly surprised that I wasn’t able to “guess” what would happen next. Kept me in my toes.

It’s starts a little slow and I almost stopped but after the third episode I was hooked. The narrator I feel gets his groove for the show and makes everything fit well after the second episode.

Thought I could listen to this and ignore the casual misogyny. But I can’t. I can deal with his writing when it comes to the male characters… but WOW, his writing of the female characters?! Straight up misogyny. I gave up when the female epidemiologist got horny right before doing an autopsy and the author wrote her internal dialogue as needing to get her **hormones** under control. To the author: please, don’t try to write women. Or, idk, maybe talk to a woman first? The writing makes me feel like the author hasn’t ever been close to a woman before in his life. And if he has, he hasn’t cared enough to ask about her inner thoughts. There’s an arrogance in his writing, as if he believes he understands women as a concept, so he shouldn’t have to bother with actually giving the female characters dimension. Straight up objectification. Sexualization. Subjugation. Byeee

Started out ok with misogyny undertones, but Season 3 is a boss-level misogyny party. The female roles in this are constantly adhering to tropes and I can’t listen anymore after getting thru half of episode 2 of Season 3. Men are always the “bigger person” in this show and it is seriously gross. The plot is engaging and the sci fi aspects and descriptions of the “intelligence” and tech are killer. But the obvious deep loathing for the female spirit gets worse over time

Always Awesome!!!