![]() ![]() In the space of a few weeks, the MCRN flagship Donnager, would be destroyed by an unknown class of stealth warship, which the MCR and the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA) believed were constructed by the UN. However, these tensions came to a head following the destruction of the Canterbury and the sequence of events that followed. The UN and MCR (Martian Congressional Republic) had been mutual superpowers in the Solar System for decades prior to the war, with tensions escalating constantly. ![]() “You can't go home” - Spoilers for " Season 2" follow. The UN-MCR War was the first major interplanetary war fought by humanity. The war saw the destruction of dozens of military vessels, the near-collapse of Ganymede Station, the destruction of the city of Goias Maior on Earth and several million civilian casualties, alongside the removal of Esteban Sorrento-Gillis and Sadavir Errinwright from power in the UN (United Nations). ![]() The fighting centered primarily in the Outer Planets - most notably the Jovian system, although fighting was also conducted amongst the Inner Planets. The UN-MCR War was a conflict fought in the Sol System by forces of the United Nations Navy (UNN), United Nations Marine Corps (UNMC), Martian Congressional Republic Navy (MCRN), and Martian Marine corps (MMC), serving as the culmination of decades of tension building up in the Cold War and a conspiracy conducted by Protogen to cause a conflict. 1✕ Morrigan-class patrol destroyer abandoned.Over 2 million civilians in South America.5✕ MCRN Stealth C Ballistic Missile Platforms.Resignation of Secretary-General Esteban Sorrento-Gillis and ascension of Chrisjen Avasarala as Secretary-GeneralĬommanders and leaders Esteban Sorrento-Gillis.Arrest of Sadavir Errinwright for treason.Which should be the title for her spin-off series. Tim’s a jerk, but Ruth’s a sociopathic slacker. In truth, there’s never been a cause less worthy of applause than Ruth. There’s a running gag about Ruth demanding Idris clap for carers whenever she comes into the room. In fact, Jerk isn’t so much a sitcom about disability as about how the virtuous get mugged off by sociopaths. Ruth, the uncaring carer (played with majestic surliness by Sharon Rooney) returns as an empathy-free zone who exists, like Tim only more so, to exploit virtuous numpties like Bobbiey and Idris. Happily, though, there is one person more appalling than Tim. “He’s just another able-bodied cis white man who thinks he can do anything,” she says, tangled up in her own ostensibly post-oppressive ideology. When Tim manages to blow away £200 of cocaine at a student party, Bobbiey refuses to accept that his disability caused the accident. The rest of the first episode is a funny meditation on the absurdity of a society that seems predicated on giving everyone the right to self-define but readily shows its true colours in crisis. When he offers to get drinks, she snarls: “Can you not handle someone you perceive as a woman paying for a round?” The more she denounces him for political incorrectness, the more he adores her. “If Tim decides to identify as able-bodied, that’s fine.”Įven Idris, the kind of man who unironically wears a “This is what a feminist looks like” T-shirt, is trumped in virtue signalling by the student he fancies, Bobbiey (played by the droll Helen Monks). “We are living in a post-label society,” says Idris. This results in superbly awkward scenes in which our hero struggles to get in or out of a chair at the college bar no one, at the risk of undermining his right to self-designate as whatever he wants to be, can help him. Tim self-describes as able-bodied and double-dares anyone to gainsay him. Between series one and two, Tim has gone voguishly identity-fluid. Tim just wants to work the system and be 3,000 miles away from his ball-breaking mother, played by Lorraine Bracco, who pops up on video chat to tell her son to use condoms: “Don’t be getting anybody pregnant, OK, ‘cause they’ll come out like you.” So sweet. But he’s too much of a slacker to fulfil that destiny. ![]() Why? Possibly to give the lie to the adage that you can’t be what you can’t see. His chosen field is puppetry, via a postgraduate course. Back in Britain, Tim wangles a rent-free flat and a student visa. In series two, Renkow ramps up the jeopardy while again demonstrating that he is to political correctness what Boris Johnson is to statesmanship. He was Larry David with a twist – none of the biddable Brits this unpleasant American met, especially his super-gullible friend Idris, dared confront Tim for his sociopathic ways. In the first series of Jerk, Tim’s cerebral palsy gave him carte blanche to get away with saying what others dare not. Photograph: Adam Lawrence/BBC/Roughcut TV Tim Renkow, Anushka Charkravarti and Helen Monks in Jerk. ![]()
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