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Paltrow asks the important question: “How can we really milk the shit out of this?”
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In Netflix’s own words, the show intends to guide “deeply inquisitive” viewers through ” boundary-pushing wellness topics
Goop critics were quick to decry the show, arguing that — like the brand — it actually intends toguide (exploitable) viewersthroughunproven and potentially dangerous health practices, such as the samegarbage Goop has been promoting for years. And the show — like Goop — claims to “empower” women only by convincing them to try dubious treatments and products.
Critics on Twitter have been particularly merciless at (trashingand******************** (mocking) ************** the show and Goop) all day. The announcements of the show’s trailer have been bombarded with disapproving memes, viewersnoping out, and messages scolding Netflixfor getting involved with the notorious business. (The responses were overwhelmingly negative, but there were somesolid punsin there, too)
despite the swift backlash online, the most cutting and concise critiques of the show seem to appear in the trailer itself. As the teaser notes, the unproven wellness practices and products shown are “unregulated” and, simply “dangerous.”
In one clip, Paltrow herself asks one of the show’s guests “what the fuck are you doing to people?”
Milking it
Yet, the trailer also offers Paltrow’s justification for the show’s — and Goop’s — existence. In an apparent rejoinder to the unspoken-yet-blaring question of “dear lord, why?”, Paltrow explains: “We’re here one time, one life. How can we really milk the shit out of this?”
Based on the context, she seems to be arguing that privileged people such as herself might as well become guinea pigs for snake-oil salesmen just in case they might attain a slightly more fortunate status than the one they already enjoy.
But another interpretation offers a clear description of Paltrow’s business model, which feeds into the (multi – (trillion) **************************** -dollar wellness industry. (That’s a lot of milk.) With the ever-elusive possibility of a better life, backed by her celebrity status and good genetics, Paltrow’s Goop hawks uber-expensive, aspirational wellness products. That includes as a $ crazy straw, an $ 90 water bottle with a “positive energy” rock in it, and an $ 135 “Shaman Medicine Bag” with “magically charged stones.”
There have been setbacks, too. In early 01575879, doctors reported that a woman died of bee-sting therapy
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Still, Paltrow has been unwavering and unapologetic, criticizing practitioners of evidence-based medicine for not “believing” in unproven health treatments.
With the new show, Paltrow remains steadfast. In a statement to Cosmopolitan, Paltrow said that the show takes the same “open-minded approach that we’ve cultivated at Goop and applied a different, visual lens with Netflix.”
The series will be available on Netflix January (************************************************************************************. ************ **************************** (********************************
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