LAND OF WOMEN: Chapter 1

Name: LAND OF WOMEN: Chapter 1
Item: LAND OF WOMEN: Chapter 1
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"Marred by Politically Correct Subplots"

Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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LAND OF WOMEN is a comedy series on Apple TV+. Eva Longoria stars as Gala, a New York socialite opening a fancy wine shop. Gala’s life is flipped upside down in Chapter One when her husband makes a deal with the wrong people. The husband disappears, and dangerous people come looking for Gala and her family. Gala hocks some jewelry and takes her mother and 17-year-old daughter to Spain. They travel to her mother’s small hometown in northern Spain to hide. However, once in Spain, the grandmother’s darkest secrets are revealed.

Chapter One of LAND OF WOMEN has a funny script with some unpredictable twists and fun, appealing performances. However, it has a mixed worldview. For example, Chapter One mixes Romantic, feminist elements with light Christian, moral content. The mother tries to protect her mother and her teenage daughter, but the daughter is a lesbian with a teenage girlfriend. The politically correct, homosexual subplot in Chapter One gets even strong in Chapter Two. Also, it turns out the grandmother in LAND OF WOMEN lied to her own daughter about her past in Spain.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Light mixed pagan worldview with Romantic, feminist, Christian, moral content such as some family members are willing to stick by each other’s side no matter what happens (the father owes millions of dollars to some gangsters and abandons the family but promises his wife before he leaves her that he will try to set things right, some positive references to God in a light Catholic context, with some lying and other immoral behavior, plus main character’s daughter is a lesbian, so Chapter 1 is politically correct (future episodes may be more politically correct or woke);

Foul Language:

10 obscenities, one GD profanity and eight light profanities (such as “Mother of God” and OMG);

Violence:

Two criminals threaten to kill woman’s daughter and mother because her fugitive husband allegedly owes them $15 million, car swerves and almost runs off the road, car then hits a cart full of grapes pulled by a tractor, and the cart falls and spills most of its grapes, woman driving the car argues with the angry man driving the tractor, arguing between a mother and daughter and between a man and a woman which include name calling;

Sex:

No bedroom scenes, but the main character’s daughter is a lesbian and has a girlfriend, and they kiss twice when mother pulls up to retrieve daughter for a trip, including saying goodbye, plus a flashback shows the grandmother as a young woman skinny dipping with her boyfriend, who in present day is the local police chief;

Nudity:

Young woman in a flashback wears a tight top showing her nipples, a woman in bra and underwear straps thin plastic packages of money to her body, young woman skinny dips in river with boyfriend in a flashback (there’s a shot of the woman’s bare back from behind as she shows off her naked torso to some townspeople on a bridge) and the same woman wearing her underclothes years later swims in the same river;

Alcohol Use:

Woman and other people drink wine at the grand opening of the woman’s fancy winery in New York City, women drink wine in a house, and elderly woman drinks on a plane to get drunk because she hates flying;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Several instances of lying, attempted bribery, breaking and entering (three women are arrested for this, which involves a business dispute), and stealing, and two arguments with the man driving the tractor include some name calling.

More Detail:

LAND OF WOMEN is a comedy series on Apple TV+. It stars Eva Longoria as Gala, a New York socialite trying to open a fancy wine shop in the city. Gala’s life is flipped upside down when her husband makes a deal with the wrong people. Gala’s husband disappears, and now dangerous people are looking for Gala and her family. Gala hocks some jewelry and takes her mother, Julia (Carmine Maura), and daughter, Kate (Victoria Bazúa), to Spain. They travel to her mother’s small hometown in northern Spain to hide. However, once in Spain, her mother’s darkest secrets are revealed.

Chapter 1 begins with Gala wearing only her bra and underwear. Gala is taping slim plastic packages with money to her stomach and hiding it under her dress.

Cut to the day before. Gala is shopping for a new dress for the grand opening of her new winery. Gala and her husband, Fred, are discussing several tasks, a normal married couple would need to do. Suddenly, Fred gets a text and says he forgot something at the office. He promises to meet her later at the grand opening event. A look of concern crosses Fred’s face.

Fred doesn’t show up at the grand opening. However, two tough-looking men approach Gala. She thinks they’re the caterers, but the men tell her that Fred owes them $15 million. They give Gala 24 hours to come up with the money, or they will kill her mother and daughter.

Gala finds Fred back at home. He tells her he must leave immediately, or he will be killed. As he runs out the door with his bag, he promises that he’ll find a way to fix things.

The next day, Gala finds out that all her money in the bank is gone and all her credit cards have been canceled. Gala takes some of her jewelry to a pawn shop, but she finds out that some of the jewelry is fake. She gets $50,000, however, and the movie picks up where it began, with Gala taping thin packets of money under her dress.

Gala calls her mother and daughter to take them on a “surprise girls’ trip.” In reality, however, Gala is taking them all to northern Spain, to keep them safe from the men angry at Fred. Gala lies to her mother and daughter when they ask why they’re going to the mother’s old hometown in Spain.

Once there, however, they find out the grandmother’s sister sold the family house to a handsome farmer who’s Gala’s age. Also, the sister doesn’t want anything to do with the grandmother.

At the end of the episode, Gala and her mother and daughter end up in jail. Even though the grandmother’s old boyfriend happens to be the local sheriff.

Chapter One of LAND OF WOMEN has a funny script with some unpredictable twists and fun, appealing performances. However, it has a mixed worldview with Romantic, politically correct, feminist elements competing with some light Christian, moral, pro-family elements. On the positive side, the episode shows a mother trying to protect her family. On the negative side, it has light Romantic, feminist elements and nearly 20 obscenities and profanities. Also, the daughter in LAND OF WOMEN is a transitioning lesbian with a girlfriend. Sadly, this politically correct subplot gets even stronger in Chapter Two. Viewers also learn in Chapter Two that the grandmother has a scandalous past. Finally, the Spanish vineyard in the movie is a cooperative vineyard run by women.

Media-wise families will find LAND OF WOMEN unacceptable, even if it eventually has a positive resolution to the main story about the evil criminals.