Curfew - new dystopian drama imagines male curfew

I wonder if it will go into the practicalities - there’d need to be a huge increase in (female?) police officers to attend “domestics” if all the men are stuck at home drinking. Would workplaces adapt and allow men to leave earlier so they can commute home by 7pm? Would the “night-time economy” collapse without male bartenders and bouncers, and would numbers of women going to bars, clubs, cinema etc increase enough for them to remain viable?

What happens to dating, etc? Huge change in workplace culture if work and/or lunchtime is the only time men and women can meet and socialise together. Or would men be allowed out during curfew as long as they have a woman with them? Is a woman walking a man home so he’s not out alone after curfew any safer than a woman being walked home by a man?

It’s one of those nice “what if” thought experiments but the practicalities make it unworkable.

Oh that's really interesting, thanks for telling us about that.

I'd love to see what they do with it, but alas it's on a subscription channel (Paramount+).

I shall read everyone's comments avidly!

I wonder if they are including transwomen in their definition of women and if they are let off curfew as they have women feelings

Exactly.

I wonder if it will address the issue that women often face violence in the home, so having a curfew might actually make it more dangerous for some who live with violent men.

Thats a really good point, and I imagine a lot of women could get guilted / forced into also staying at home during those hours.

I wonder how and if it deals with the trans issue?

then again, if men can define themselves as women ….

I shall look out for that. Thanks.

I see that someone has run with this idea that's often talked about whenever the police or other authorities suggest that women don't go out alone at night/in the dark in order to prevent violence against them.

I wonder if it will address the issue that women often face violence in the home, so having a curfew might actually make it more dangerous for some who live with violent men.

'Curfew also questions whether women are capable of violent acts, challenging traditional gender norms' - this is also quite stupid. Yes, women are capable of violent acts, we know this because a very small percentage of women currently do commit violent acts. So women are capable of it, but most of the time, the vast majority don't. Or, do they mean violent acts against other women, because there are no men around? I guess I'll have to watch and find out, thanks for posting about it here @ArabellaScott !

Have earmarked this to watch - am interested in what its actual underlying moral message is. Hope it isn’t as subtle as a sledgehammer…