History Fridge / DontWorryDarling

** While all of the characters drink, very few of them smoke, which would have been '''highly''' unusual for the 1950s, where non-smoking was an exception, not a rule.

* There are no real children in Victory, and all of the sex - being a computer simulation - will never result in any. All of the children are created for a specific reason as a part of the fantasy. The only one of those reasons that's even close to positive are Bunny's children, who were created because of her grief over her children's death in the real world. Frank and Shelley's children are (their idea of) perfect status symbols. Peg's perpetual pregnancies may be because a perpetually-pregnant wife and a passel of kids might be part of her "husband's" Fifties fantasy, or it may be an outright [[TheBabyTrap Baby Trap]] to keep her under control. Since she was one of the first to shake off the illusion once Alice broke it and to push her husband away when she did, she may be one of the stronger women in real life. When Jack suggests having a baby to Alice, it's almost certainly [[TheBabyTrap to bind her more tightly to himself and the illusion]].

** All the food we see being cooked looks appetizing and isn't too outlandish - bacon and eggs for breakfast, steak and veggies for dinner, etc. In RealLife, the 1950s had food trends like [[StockYuck hors d'oeuvres consisting of vegetables suspended in gelatin and desserts like blancmange]].

* When we get a glimpse of the real world, we see Alice cuffed to her bed. Hopefully, she did not wake up to find herself still cuffed next to Jack's dead body. For that matter, even if she has woken up, how is she going to be able to free herself from her imprisonment and raise the alarm?

** All the food we see being cooked looks appetizing and isn't too outlandish - bacon and eggs for breakfast, steak and veggies, etc. In RealLife, the 1950s had food trends like hors d'oeuvres consisting of [[StockYuck vegetables suspended in gelatin and desserts like blancmange]].

** Part of what helps to establish the illusion of being in The Fifties is a very "Fifties" attitude toward drugs and alcohol: everyone drinks like fish including the pregnant Peg, and female discontent is treated with pills. The clue that something is awry is that no one ''smokes''. Smoking was almost universal among American adults in The Fifties, and while it would be perfectly normal to have large gatherings where no one smokes today, it would be almost impossible in The Fifties.

* When we get a glimpse of the real world, we see Alice cuffed to her bed. Hopefully, she did not wake up to find herself still cuffed next to Jack's dead body. For that matter, even if she has woken up, how is she going to be able to free herself from her imprisonment and raise the alarm?
* While it’s easy to sympathize with Bunny once you realize her reason for staying in the simulation (her kids are alive in Victory, and not the real world) her innocence is called into question when you remember she’s aiding Frank in keeping the women there too. She gaslights Margaret, and later Alice, when they speak openly about their “hallucinations.” Throughout the movie we hear what sounds like underground explosions, meant to aid in the illusion that the men of Victory are working on something top-secret. After one of these explosions, Bunny says “well, at least we know they’re working,” and silences Peg when she starts to speak loudly about what she thinks the men are “working on.” Bunny is complicit in this world founded on abuse, even if it means she gets to remain a mother to her children.

** If you know anything about the history of American suburbia, you'll know that the sorts of places Victory is based on were had racial segregation not as a bug but a feature, with the effects of this still being felt in the present day. At Frank and Shelley's pool party, we see that there are many multiracial households in Victory. While it can be chalked up to PoliticallyCorrectHistory or ColorBlindCasting, it begs a few questions after TheReveal. Was Victory conceived as an enclave where its inhabitants might be able to escape the racism of the day? If this is an ostensibly post-racial utopia, then why wouldn't it also attract queer people? The answer is that Frank's real-world equivalents tend to be upfront about their homophobia and misogyny, but may be less eager to be seen to be openly racist, if only because potential recruits still on the fence might find that distasteful.
*** Also, for all that the "1950s middle class submissive housewife" was an almost exclusively white phenomenon in RealLife, it's likely that some of the participants of Victory wished for that fantasy, while being attracted to black or non-white women.
** Similarly, you would think that a planned community with all those [[StandardFiftiesFather Standard '50s Fathers]] would have at least a few World War II or Korean War vets with noticeable war wounds, but no one in Victory has a disability because it's an idealized fantasy where everyone is model-attractive and in peak physical condition.

* Frank (a fairly transparent representation of a right-wing incel commentator) is in a relationship with the Asian woman Shelley; this dynamic might allude to how some men on the alt-right or in incel communities idealize Asian women for supposedly being [[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow submissive and traditionally feminine]].

** After Alice returns home from her shock therapy treatments, she has gaps in her memory, including regarding the names of some of her friends and neighbors. Bunny says, offhandedly, “Oh you know, Peg, always pregnant?” This basically confirms Peg is never going to have her baby, and her being pregnant is just one more part of her husband’s fantasy in Victory (if he’s even really her husband).