A committed anti-capitalist heroine attacking Christianity is near-invisible in US TV

Evidence

At key points, their differences from the “real” Americans are emphasised. While Philip is sometimes seen to vacillate, to appreciate at least some aspects of the American way of life, Elizabeth never wavers in her commitment to the destruction of American capitalism. At one moment during the second season, Paige starts going to a church group. Nothing brings home Elizabeth’s alienness to American life — and to many of the protocols of US TV drama — more than the ferocity of her hostility to this development. The scene in which a furious Elizabeth confronts Paige about all this is strangely hilarious: there aren’t many places elsewhere in American TV drama where we can see Christianity attacked with such fervour. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 724

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: what ideological commitments are structurally unrepresentable as sympathetic in mainstream US drama — Christianity attack as a case study.
• XREF: Connects to Fisher’s broader theme elsewhere in this book that certain ideological positions are unspeakable within contemporary culture.