The show flirts with the absurd in the best way.
While viewers learn that the crash is a farce early on, the scope and purpose of the experiment are fleshed out further in Season 2. The name of the fake women’s empowerment retreat Gretchen uses to lure the girls—“the Dawn of Eve”—offers a clue. The psychologist outwardly frames her experiment as an assessment of how a society would develop in the absence of patriarchy, using the boys—“the Twilight of Adam”—as a control group.
The purpose of Gretchen’s experiment is to solidify the gender binary, albeit in service of the matriarchy, but the participants keep complicating her agenda. The series introduces the teens as archetypes only to have them break the mold. The girls are not always more compassionate and collaborative than the boys, and the boys are not always more volatile and violent.
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