Vox’s new series for Netflix debuted this morning, with the simple and deeply on-brand title Explained. (At least it didn’t get comma-happy and call it “, Explained.”) I watched the first episode and bits of the next two, and they’re good!
The format will be familiar to anyone who’s watched Vox’s YouTube videos; they’ve posted the first episode, “Monogamy, Explained,” to YouTube, and as a Vox producer says in the intro: “If you like our YouTube, you’re going to love this.” Watch it for yourself:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCGyLjBjuGI&w=600&h=337]A lot of YouTube commenters do indeed seem to like it. (“Next level video essays. I freaking love this”; “YESSSSS MORE KNOWLEDGE”). Well, at least the ones who aren’t arguing with the video’s implicit endorsement of polyamory. (“VERY VERY POLITICIZED KNOWLEDGE YESS”; “Ahhh even more liberal vox garbage, Netflix has gone by the way of the dodo bird”; “Vox, attempting to destroy the social fabric, one institution at a time”;…
