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  • Applicability: The episode received renewed interest after the rise and fall of ISIS in Africa and the Middle East, high-profile gang-rapes in India, the "men's rights" movement and "incel" phenomenon in the West, and the increasingly open discussion of Christian fundamentalist beliefs in American politics culminating with the overruling of Roe vs. Wade by a Conservative-majority Supreme Court and the limitation or outright ban of abortion for all cases in several states in 2022.
  • Genius Bonus: Genesis 3:16 is the passage where God curses Eve.
    To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to husband, but he shall rule over you.”
  • Playing Against Type: When you think of the kind of horror films that Joe Dante had done, you think of horror comedies like the two Gremlins films, The Howling (1981) and Piranha (1978) where the scares are mixed with either camp or humor. But here as well as his Season One episode, "Homecoming", Joe Dante goes to his dark place with the horrific and downright disturbing tone of the episode filled with sexual violence (Female breast bags anyone?), down to the uncharacteristically rare for him Downer Ending.

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