Jem Girls Podcast

Get ready and buckle up, because dance is heading to Zagreb! No, wait, sorry, not “dance,” as in the practice of moving one’s body to music (they probably have that up out in Croatia already), we mean “Danse,” the person with a parasitic blob for hair who really can’t dance despite their name.

Why is Danse, accompanied by the whole Jem and the Hologram crew, heading to the former Yugoslavia? To find her mother or something. Who cares. What we’re really here for is the problematic portrayal of a foreign culture that Jem usually brings and, boy howdy, does this episode deliver!

You got frame ups. You got societal corruption. You got evil dance directors who wield more power than “lowly” doctors. Yes, this episode has everything you didn’t ask for and far more, basically making it American propaganda. Which is pretty much what Jem is anyway, so enjoy!