Hate to sound as if I’m saying that specific topics shouldn’t be joked about because everything should be joked about, but considering how many people just learned the level of control a conservatorship legally holds over their ward from Framing Brittney Spears last week, this is poor timing at best.

To make it worse, the “satire” they’re reaching for here only works by displaying every one of her wards and their families as raving overconcerned yet belligerent dolts who are just hating on a woman who clawed her way to the top. Make no mistake, legal guardianship is going to need some severe oversight in the next decade for the wave of senior citizens we’ll be stuck with by then because people like Marla Grayson are financial mosquitoes who prey on and abuse the elderly and vulnerable that the current system grants them no recourse from. When she tells Dianne Wiest that she controls her drug doses, her daily schedule, her finances, and even access to her phone? That’s not a joke, that what’s too many of these thieves already get away with. It’s gonna take a lot more effort than the most tasteless kind of dog-eat-dog solipsism and cheap misandry (and that’s coming from me) to make a character like this cool or darkly funny or even remotely worth our interest for long enough to forget the fact that this bullshit ruins lives beyond our wildest financial nightmares.

Like ok Netflix, you have proven what a crap-shoot your selections tend to be time and time again, but try to think about which angle you’re joking from for once…

A single star out of 5.