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Originally Posted by iLLest

Didn't want to watch the Barbie one but the rest are good. I hope they make more.

The Barbie episode, unfortunately, kind of went off the rails in short order. Where the others were fun retrospectives on the genesis and early successes of the brands in question, the Barbie crew wasted a lot of running time droning on about how empowering and culturally important the dolls were, in a style that would’ve better suited a first-year lecture in Women’s Studies (to the point of bringing in an actual academic to comment). I’m not sure if that spin was more the result of genuine narcissism or Mattel’s ongoing psy-ops campaign to defend the brand against accusations of “lookism” and “fat-shaming” or whatever, but it certainly made the anecdotes that the He-Man design team related about their counterparts in the Barbie division so easily getting their noses out of joint that much more compelling.