Reviews Are In For 'Queen Of Coal' Starring Pedro Pascal's Transgender Sibling

And they are not good

”A trans woman dreams of working the coal mines — but in a town steeped in superstition and patriarchy, Carlita must fight to earn her place underground” reads the Netflix description of Queen of Coal. (Original title: Miss Carbon.) Put in plain language, the plot is that a man who works in a coal mine dreams of becoming a woman who works in a coal mine, only to be told that he must now take one of the jobs set aside for women outside the mine, so he raises the consciousness of the coal town until they let him be a “woman in the coal mine”, the very first, a breakthrough for gender justice.

I have not watched Queen of Coal. Not because I cannot handle the content, but because I cannot handle the sheer, soul-sucking boredom I would experience. Luckily, I don’t have to watch it myself. I have YouTubers who watch it for me. Here are Chris Gore and Alan Ng, who did see this Argentinian cheese, to describe what they saw and heard. (SPOILER: the English dubbing is hilariously bad.) The actor playing Carlita is Lux Pascal, the transgender-identifying brother of Pedro Pascal, who is the worst leading man that Hollywood ever made ubiquitous.

Now, this might not seem like an important moment in the history of Netflix, if not for the ongoing drama around the sale of Warner Brothers. At the time I publish this, there is still no resolution to the Netflix merger or the rival ‘hostile takeover’ bid by Paramount. Writers and actors and theatre owners are all opposed to Netflix taking over one of the last major studios, cannibalizing its intellectual properties, and reducing its output.

Two weeks ago, culture commentator Thom Pratt aka Kneon made a video laying out the bizarre politics of the moment. Suddenly, Hollywood might need Donald Trump to block the merger. But if Warner Brothers ends up in the hands of David Ellison, he could very well put a Bari Weiss in charge of CNN just to make Trump happy. Netflix, on the other hand, is synonymous with woke content, including transgender propaganda that was made for kids. Kneon also noticed the bad dubbing in the preview.

“Who the fuck is this made for?!” Dave asks. (I didn’t get his last name.) Dave is exactly why I like YouTube in its present form and do not look forward to a future of AI slop in the algorithm. I discovered Dave in my video search. Blunt and hilarious, he can still see the Adam’s apple in Lux’s throat in some shots. Turns out that there is a bathroom controversy in the film. Like Kneon, he wonders why this character would ever want to work in a coal mine. It is the most unrealistic thing about the character.

Is woke dead in 2026? Stay tuned, because the outcome of this merger/takeover controversy matters. At this point, the film careers of Lux and Pedro Pascal appear to be in hospice care, anyway. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas.