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NetflixNew LGBT+ Military Series boots has climbed the streamer’s charts after pentagon rejected it As in “woke trash”.
series, Based on the 2016 memoir by Greg Cope White pink seaFollows a closeted Louisiana teen (played by Miles Heizer) who impulsively enlists in the US Marine Corps.
It is set in the nineties, when it was still illegal to be openly gay in the US military.
Last week, Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson took aim at the show, saying that the US military “will not compromise our standards to serve an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership continuously produces and feeds dirty garbage to its viewers and children”.
The comments come after the Trump administration’s ban on transgender troops serving in the military.
But Wilson’s comments have actually boosted the show’s popularity, with the series reaching No. 2 on the US Netflix charts and No. 4 in the UK.
“I guess we have to give the Pentagon some credit there, right?” Series creator Andy Parker told Vanity Fair.
He said, “I certainly never intended to make something that was propaganda and I really reject the idea that it is propaganda.”
Parker said: “I would be very surprised if the Pentagon actually watches the show. The premise itself provokes or provokes some kind of reaction or assumptions. I would invite people to watch the show, and see how they feel about the questions the show is trying to provoke.”
He continued: “We were on an emotional mission. All of these questions involve politics — what’s happening to trans people now, and the policies that are now being imposed on trans service members.
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“Our show highlights what’s the cost of that? What’s the cost to the people affected by those policies? What’s the cost to the institution when they have to put the burden of that on service members who want to serve honorably and with dignity?”
Read about the true story that inspired the Netflix series Here,