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Long Form TV Drama - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Women become oppressed through a capitalist system because as the system promotes consumerism women become commodities (Wolfgang and Arnold spending the night with prostitutes)
      - Women are encouraged to compare themselves to ‘idealised versions’ of women
      - Women become victims of patriarchy (Yvonne is subject to domestic abuse)
      - Women are passive
    - - Women were expected to go to work because the politics of the East centres on equality
      - A greater sense of equality transfers to the domestic space
      - Women are independent and empowered
      - Due to a lack of consumerism women were less likely to compare themselves to ‘idealised’ versions of ‘women’ - women as individuals and not a collective.
        Women are active
  - - - The narrative strands are woven together and we can analyse them, suggesting which narrative strands are going to dominate the overall narrative arc.
      - All narratives are structured around conflict.
  - - - The episode opens with the series with Ronald Reagan’s infamous “Evil Empire” speech.In the east we meet Martin, a wide-eyed but not-so-innocent twentysomething who serves in the East German army on the border of the Berlin Wall. He’s got a sick mother, Ingrid, who raised him single-handedly, a lovely girlfriend named Annett and a nice line in terrorising innocent acting troupes in order to claim their copies of Shakespeare for his mum.Unfortunately for Martin, he also has a machiavellian Aunty Lenora (brilliantly played by Aimee and Jaguar’s Maria Schrader) who works in Bonn for the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik). Lenora has big ideas regarding her young nephew and isn’t above using a bit of emotional (and literal) blackmail to get them. Luckily for her, Ingrid desperately needs a kidney transplant but can’t get on the waiting list. So it is that young Martin finds himself rechristened Moritz and heading to Bonn to serve as aide-de-camp to General Edel, a senior West German army officer whose dealings are mainly with the Americans.
        
        They break his finger to create a reason why he can’t play the piano (a skill that the man he will impersonate has); they drug his coffee and cart him off to Bonn while he’s unconscious. In Bonn (the West) he receives intensive training from HVA field operative Tobias Tischbier, and arrives at the army base in the Eifel under a new identity: Officer Moritz Stamm. His job is to collect intelligence on NATO plans to station Pershing II nuclear missiles in West Germany, as aide to a General Edel.
        We also meet General Edel and his family, including would-be singer Yvonne, who has an interesting line in conversation (“Do you like black music?”) and her conflicted brother Alex, who doesn’t seem as enamoured of nuclear weapons as a means of deterrent as the rest of the base.The Edels are also in possession of a dodgy aunty (what is it with aunts on this show?), only in their case poor Renate just likes to drink a bit, which means that no one believes her when she overhears Martin blowing his cover by phoning home to Annett. That, unfortunately, turns out to be the only bit of good luck that young Martin/Moritz gets this episode as after managing to secretly photograph General Jackson’s plans he then finds that it’s not quite as straightforward as mission accomplished and get me out of here. Instead, Aunt Lenora points out that what he’s photographed is a list of American bomb targets, all of which are in East Germany. “The lives of millions of East Germans are at stake, not just one” she acerbically points out.
- - - - Hopper: originally loser town police chief, supports toxic masculinity, drinks & smokes and is unbothered by missing Will. then we see him looking at a picture drawn by a child, and he cries and is emotional, which challenges toxic masculinty
      - Jonathan & Steve: originally geek vs jock, Jock bullies geek / nerd for being non-macho. Jonathan becomes a victim of toxic masculinity via bullying. Steve has to prove his masculinity.
        Jonathan prevails and gets the girl, Steve gets softer and nicer as the series goes on
      - Lucas: hyper aggressive black man, reinforces stereotypes
      - Dustin: represents disability? is a soft gentle character
  - - - Middle class suburban life, mother, father 2 children nuclear family
      - Karen Wheeler rejects this, She has it, but it doesnt make her happy
    - - Minor main character, the series is predominantly white
      - Represented as the young, aggressive black man - LINK TO GILROY
  - - - “What would Steven do?”
        That was the mantra for Director of Photography Tim Ives on the set of Stranger Things.
      - Nuclear family torn apart - shown via wills family
      - the idea of a suburban neighborhood being taken over by something supernatural
      - ET
        
        There’s the scene where Mike stays home from school ill and the scene where Eleven puts on a dress and a blonde wig, like the way the kids dress up E.T. in the movie. And the shot where Eleven flips the van so the gang can escape on their bikes, which mirrors the famous scene in E.T. where the kids soar into the air on their bikes with a little from their friend.