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* DaylightHorror: Moishe and Igor kidnapping Esty in broad daylight, along a busy street. You almost forget about Igor, and then you see the silver van following Moishe on his ambush...
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The series is based on Deborah Feldman's Memoir of the same name which claims to be based on a true story, but both people who knew Feldman and ''other'' people who have left the Hasidism have accused the book of being grossly exaggerated at best. There is a [[http://deborah-feldman-exposed.blogspot.com/ webpage devoted to debunking it]]. A former friend of Feldman's gives her own take on things [[https://forward.com/culture/195634/deborah-feldman-isnt-telling-you-the-whole-story/ here]].
** Articles by articles by women who left the Hasidism said that the show's portrayal of the Hasidic world is a "Grossly Inaccurate" caricature--both in the details it gets wrong (such as the rules relating to the eruv wire), and in the overall portrayal and atmosphere (they said that although the community is oppressive, it isn't utterly joyless and miserable all the time, and the women who can afford it dress quite stylishly).
** Articles by articles by women who left the Hasidism said that the show's portrayal of the Hasidic world is a "Grossly Inaccurate" caricature--both in the details it gets wrong (such as the rules relating to the eruv wire), and in the overall portrayal and atmosphere (they said that although the community is oppressive, it isn't utterly joyless and miserable all the time, and the women who can afford it dress quite stylishly).
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It's very loosely based on the story.
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''Unorthodox'' is a four-part Creator/{{Netflix}}-produced German-American miniseries directed by Maria Schrader and streamed since March 26, 2020. It is loosely based on Deborah Feldman's 2012 {{memoir}}, ''Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots''.
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''Unorthodox'' is a four-part Creator/{{Netflix}}-produced German-American miniseries directed by Maria Schrader and streamed since March 26, 2020. It is [[{{VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory}} loosely based based]] on Deborah Feldman's 2012 {{memoir}}, ''Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots''.
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* JerkassWoobie: Moishe is an asshole through and through, but he clearly has a lot of demons haunting him.
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* JerkassWoobie: Moishe is an asshole through and through, but he clearly has a lot of demons haunting him.
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** As a new bride, Esty's head is shaven. She finds the experience traumatizing, and cries throughout.
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** As a new bride, Esty's head is shaven. She finds the experience traumatizing, and cries throughout. [[spoiler:Later inverted, as her barely grown-out hair happily passes for a trendy buzzcut in artsy Berlin.]]
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler:Losing custody of your child.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Moishe's gun which he left with Esty is later used by Leah to [[WeaponForIntimidation keep Moshe at bay]]. Ironically for this trope, it doesn’t get fired.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Moishe's gun which he left with Esty is later used by Leah to [[WeaponForIntimidation keep Moshe Moishe at bay]]. Ironically for this trope, it doesn’t get fired.]]
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* LawOfInverseFertility: played with. Esty is under significant pressure to become pregnant quickly. Initially, viewers are given the impression that Esty and Yanky are struggling with infertility, but they later learn that the couple is actually having difficulty completing sexual intercourse itself.
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* LawOfInverseFertility: played Played with. Esty is under significant pressure to become pregnant quickly. Initially, viewers are given the impression that Esty and Yanky are struggling with infertility, but they later learn that the couple is actually having difficulty completing sexual intercourse itself.
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Moishe's gun which he left with Esty is later used by Leah to [[WeaponForIntimidation keep Moshe at bay]] Ironically for this trope, it doesn’t need to be fired.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Moishe's gun which he left with Esty is later used by Leah to [[WeaponForIntimidation keep Moshe at bay]] bay]]. Ironically for this trope, it doesn’t need to be get fired.]]
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The gun does play an important role later in the story (albeit without being fired), so I’m pretty sure it is this trope, played straight.
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* ChekhovsGun: Averted. [[spoiler:Moishe's gun never goes off once--though Leah does get a hold of it and uses it against Moishe persuasively.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Averted. [[spoiler:Moishe's gun never goes off once--though which he left with Esty is later used by Leah does get a hold of to [[WeaponForIntimidation keep Moshe at bay]] Ironically for this trope, it and uses it against Moishe persuasively.doesn’t need to be fired.]]
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* ItsAllMyFault: Unlike the rest of the community, who blames Esty for wanting to leave her oppressive and sexist community, Yanky ''immediately'' blames himself for her departure. This serves to [[Main/EstablishingCharacterMoment establish him]] as a genuinely {{Nice Guy}} who never meant to cause Esty any suffering.
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* AlcoholicParent: Esty's father is an alcoholic and unable to take care of her by himself, which is the main reason why she was raised by her grandparents after her mother left.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Esty is technically cheating on Yanky when she [[spoiler: sleeps with Robert]], but their married life is so difficult and misery-enducing for Esty that she is still viewed as sympathetic in spite of it.
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* TearJerker: Yanky's tearful and unsuccessful attempt to win Esty back in the last episode. He cuts off his sidelocks (which have cultural and religious significance) to show her that he can change. She refuses him, as their relationship is already too damaged.
* TraumaticHaircut: As a new bride, Esty's head is shaven. She finds the experience traumatizing, and cries throughout.
* TraumaticHaircut: As a new bride, Esty's head is shaven. She finds the experience traumatizing, and cries throughout.
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* TearJerker: Yanky's tearful and unsuccessful attempt to win Esty back in the last episode. He cuts off his sidelocks (which have cultural and religious significance) to show her that he can change. She refuses him, as their relationship is already too damaged.
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** As a new bride, Esty's head is shaven. She finds the experience traumatizing, and cries throughout.
* TraumaticHaircut:
** As a new bride, Esty's head is shaven. She finds the experience traumatizing, and cries throughout.
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* BlackSheep: Moishe has a complex relationship to his community and continues to break many of their rules even after his supposed reform--which makes him useful when someone has to go get Esty from the real world.
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* BlackSheep: BlackSheep:
** Moishe has a complex relationship to his community and continues to break many of their rules even after his supposed reform--which makes him useful when someone has to go get Esty from the realworld.world.
** Esty is this because she learns to play the piano with a Gentile teacher, and also because she doesn't get pregnant immediately after the wedding.
* BrandX: The search engine Esty uses looks very much like Google, but the word "Google" or a Google doodle is replaced by several magnifying glasses of different colors.
** Moishe has a complex relationship to his community and continues to break many of their rules even after his supposed reform--which makes him useful when someone has to go get Esty from the real
** Esty is this because she learns to play the piano with a Gentile teacher, and also because she doesn't get pregnant immediately after the wedding.
* BrandX: The search engine Esty uses looks very much like Google, but the word "Google" or a Google doodle is replaced by several magnifying glasses of different colors.
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** In the final episode, [[spoiler: Yanky cuts his own hair to try and prove to Esty that he loves her. She tries to convince him not to, since she knows she doesn't want to be with him.]]
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** In the final episode, [[spoiler: Yanky cuts his own hair sidelocks to try and prove to Esty that he loves her. She tries to convince him not to, since she knows she doesn't want to be with him.]]
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* TearJerker: Yanky's tearful and unsuccessful attempt to win Esty back in the last episode. He cuts off his side curls (which have cultural and religious significance) to show her that he can change. She refuses him, as their relationship is already too damaged.
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* TearJerker: Yanky's tearful and unsuccessful attempt to win Esty back in the last episode. He cuts off his side curls sidelocks (which have cultural and religious significance) to show her that he can change. She refuses him, as their relationship is already too damaged.
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* {{Anorgasmia}}: Exaggerated. Esther suffers from vaginismus, which makes intercourse with her husband excruciatingly painful and interferes with her cultural imperative to bear him children.
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* {{Anorgasmia}}: Exaggerated. Esther suffers from vaginismus, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginismus vaginismus]], which makes intercourse with her husband excruciatingly painful and interferes with her cultural imperative to bear him children.
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* BabyFactory: The holy purpose of the wives in Esty's community. Esty however doesn't see herself as a baby machine, taking offense when one of her Berlin friends characterizes Hasidic women as such.
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* BabyFactory: The holy purpose of the wives in Esty's community. Esty however doesn't see herself as a baby machine, taking offense when one of her Berlin friends characterizes [[{{Lampshading}} characterizes]] Hasidic women as such.
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* HopelessWithTech: PlayedForLaughs with Yanky, who, in accordance with the rules of his community, has had extremely limited exposure to technology. He is fascinated by Moishe's smartphone, without quite understanding its limitations.
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* HopelessWithTech: HopelessWithTech:
** PlayedForLaughs with Yanky, who, in accordance with the rules of his community, has had extremely limited exposure to technology. He is fascinated by Moishe's smartphone, without quite understanding its limitations.
** PlayedForLaughs with Yanky, who, in accordance with the rules of his community, has had extremely limited exposure to technology. He is fascinated by Moishe's smartphone, without quite understanding its limitations.
** When Esty uses a search engine for the first time, her first question is "Is there God?"
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* NotLikeOtherGirls: Esty warns Yanky that she is this after their marriage ceremony. It's played sympathetically, since she's been taught that any reluctance to fulfill her duty as a homemaker and BabyFactory is deviant and completely unique to her.
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* NotLikeOtherGirls: Esty warns Yanky that she is this after their marriage ceremony.when meeting him to decide whether they want to be married. It's played sympathetically, since she's been taught that any reluctance to fulfill her duty as a homemaker and BabyFactory is deviant and completely unique to her.
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* PsychoLesbian: Esty's family characterizes her mother as one, as she lives a nonreligious life in Berlin with a female partner.
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* PsychoLesbian: Esty's family characterizes her mother as one, as she lives a nonreligious life in Berlin with a non-Jewish female partner.
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** [[spoiler: Yanky gives himself one in the last episode, in an attempt to prove he loves Esty, even though she begs him not to. They're both in tears by the end of it.]]
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* TearJerker: Yanky's tearful and unsuccessful attempt to win Esty back in the last episode. He cuts off his side curls (which have cultural and religious significance) to show her that he can change. She refuses him, as their relationship is already too damaged.
