By Oleg Atbashian
First published at the American Thinker

Even if you haven’t watched the new Amazon series Malice, the piece makes the case for why it’s worth your time - and why it resonates beyond TV.

The smiling Zohran Mamdani look-alike in the series poster is actually Adam - a gifted sociopath and pathological liar who prostitutes himself to rich old men he hates, then worms into wealthy families and methodically wrecks them from within to avenge “capitalism’s unfairness.” The facial resemblance - and the smile - are purely coincidental. Or are they?

I just finished watching Malice on Amazon (6 episodes / 2 nights). Tell me I’m not the only one who sees it as a parable for how we keep ending up with Mamdani-types atop the power pyramid.

Propelled by the “eat-the-rich” mindset, a charming tutor/nanny infiltrates a wealthy family, wins their trust, then systematically sabotages dad (Duchovny) and the kids - class-revenge cosplay in a five-star setting.

The Greece getaway and glossy wealth-porn are the bait. The switch is gradually engineered “equity”: arrests, career hits, family fractures. Malice marketed as justice.

But Adam’s motive isn’t justice so much as a nurtured grudge dressed up as morality. In his case, his father’s collapse becomes a permanent permission slip for revenge (see Obama’s “Dreams from my Father” and other anticolonialism drivel).  It doesn’t even need to be personal - any abstract “unfairness” will do, provided the target is prosperous enough to deserve it (as in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione).

The show leans hard into our politics-by-resentment moment: it’s White Lotus meets Ripley, but with fewer brakes and more rhetoric.

Call it a meme of today’s equity crusades: break something whole, call it fairness, and blame the target for bleeding.

In that sense, Adam isn’t just a fictional character; he’s a malicious policy platform with a disarming smile - a warning to all of us that might have arrived a little late.
 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... rcna245309

RE: ZM the Commie Rat Bastard (or is that redundant?)

The White House meeting was classic Trump: "Okay, enough of the posturing and nonsense, Let's Get Something DONE" and "Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer".

Trumpasaurus is the Grand Master of that.

Yes, President Trump can be an egotistical bombastic blowhard and can seem like an a$$hole at times, but he's OUR egotistical bombastic blowhard a$$hole.....and I sincerely believe he loves this country, and when it matters he knows how to be the bigger man.

RE: Malice

More class-warfare anti-capitalist nonsense and another vehicle to show off David Duchovy's patented style of loutish selfish hedonistic behavior (Fox Mulder was the best character he ever played). Notice they had to work in homo-leftist "gayness" as a central theme in the plot, too, because.......oh, well you know....inclusion.....

Red Zeppelin wrote: ↑

11/24/2025, 10:53 am

More class-warfare anti-capitalist nonsense and another vehicle to show off David Duchovy's patented style of loutish selfish hedonistic behavior (Fox Mulder was the best character he ever played). Notice they had to work in homo-leftist "gayness" as a central theme in the plot, too, because.......oh, well you know....inclusion.....

I’m with you on the first part of your proclamation. As for the quoted bit at the end - sure, it can be seen that way, but it can also mean the opposite - a veiled exposure of how absurd and ultimately repellent that whole leftist mindset is. Adam’s gay acts are purely transactional - he does it to raise money fast when he needs it. Otherwise he isn’t gay at all: he seduces a family friend’s wife, and she enjoys it. He’s a sociopathic male prostitute; the only times he visits the seedy spots is to earn some cash to bribe the babysitter into disappearing, or to finance his final trip to Greece.

I peeked at Rotten Tomatoes and was surprised by the critics’ rock-bottom score. Then I remembered how politically biased they are: progressive-deviant dreck always gets gold stars, but anything that counters the narrative gets the blackball. So despite the excellent acting, camera, the whole package - tying class struggle and gay sex to a murderous psycho can’t be forgiven.

My first post.

After watching maybe 4 episodes of Malice, Jackalopelipsky presaw unhappiness was the future for the son, and the jackalope had to put that Malice remoteless, bingewatch monkey down, comrades.

Families that are together, but not >together< is the jackalope's warning telex: Direct from: Laika's. Desk.

In conversation with Austinite about Malice, of which he was one episode behind, I mentioned the whole pretense we have that everybody is Christian which means, >not evil< mentality. We have deluded ourselves into taking it for granted that human nature is normally good, making it possible for malice types of people to thrive. He laughed when I quipped the silliness of pretending everybody's just nice Christian people, but got scared with the second part of my point because he is the whole David Duchovny Family scene. What Austin ISD does to other people's children isn't his concern. It didn't affect his children. >Right< He's into software that assists companies in making good hires that will appreciate in business value to his customers.

Jackalopelipsky is not his customer, or even a potential hire.

All this smiling malice reminds Jackalopelipsky of an episode in Wallander titled: The Man Who Smiled, which Jackalopelipsky has seen to its final credits. There is something in Red Square noticing the facial resemblance of the predator in Malice, and the Mamdani smile. The ability to smile when doing EVIL to everyone you have conversation with is a rehearsed and perfected behavior, and then that individual is protected, as in the Wallander episode.

Malice and Wallander, The Man Who Smiled are nothing more than theater art view of life, not reality. Isn't that "why" Batman's nemesis, The Joker, has a painted on, garish, clown act of a smile. Right, Colonel Obyezyana? It's meant to be a threatening smile, the opposite of the friendly smile, like Mamdani, who possesses the smile that ate NYC.

Do not trust the Man Who Smiled.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1581667/fu ... pl_ov_ql_1



Bill Clinton could do the smile, now we know the truth behind Bill's smile as a national tragedy, and cultural morality loss.

Hillary can't smile.
E.V.E.R. ... because of her tragedy and loss, because communism failed, HER!!!
Of all people!!!

New York City is going to fail, because they trusted the smile, and would not believe his plan was to destroy them. New York City is no different than the family under attack in Malice, or the original owners of the organs making Wallander s smiling man the most smilingness man, ever.

New York City is learning what being under the control of a smiling joker is going to become, and are learning that it wasn't exactly as they thought his smile about his success meant.

Without watching the rest of Malice series, tell me if there any hope of justice by last episode? Jackalopelipsky's "art" often imitates real life, and at this moment is very low in the hope for Department of Justice at present. Being denied justice for theatric sake, is simply too much entertainment to enjoy, at the moment.

Besides, I've got popcorn to pop because comrades around Texazistan are clamoring for yet another batch of my beet bacon sorghum pecan, this batch, popcorn.

ALL BEET PRODUCTS TPCHA APPROVED!!

That's 3 batches, comrades! That popcorn still doesn't pop itself, does it? Besides, cooking caramel is a STEM laboratory practice, from the Breaking Good STEM® wing of TPC's Community College. Situationally located in the same parking lot as TPC SUB WH.
"On your right as you're driving in from marked exit and into the parking lot."

Merry Christmas!!!