Suspicions of Paramount’s corporate ideological leanings are unlikely to be abated by Little Disasters : The new Paramount+ limited series boasts one of the most demonstrably anti-vax screen protagonists in recent memory, folding distrust of the medical establishment into a bigger conversation about how it’s bad to be judgmental of other people’s parenting styles.

To be fair, Little Disasters is never really a political treatise of any kind, and for at least three of six episodes, the show’s pragmatism when it comes to the main characters’ imperfections is interesting and even entertaining. Still, by the fifth and sixth episodes, which turn several key figures into villainous caricatures and resolve the season-long mystery in cartoonishly unconvincing fashion, I was pondering what

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