Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle site, Goop, might be more well-known for the lawsuits and misleading science, but Netflix has decided it needs its own show.
The Goop Lab debuts Jan. 24, and Netflix wasted no expense getting the aesthetic just right: A vacant-eyed Paltrow standing inside a vagina that looks a little like the Looney Tunes intro. Netflix describes the series as a “curiosity-driven exploration of boundary-pushing wellness topics” though it’s not clear what kind of “wellness” experts helped with the research.
Gwyneth Paltrow welcomes you to The Goop Lab on January 24 pic.twitter.com/ZzeEEbAy9L
— Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) January 6, 2020
In a New York Times profile from July 2018, Paltrow imparted that she knows Goop backlash can be “monetized,” even after the company was forced to employ a fact-checker. There’s also longstanding criticism around who Goop is marketed to: Women who, ostensibly, can afford a $1,350 BDSM kit or $84 “amethyst crystal-infused water bottle.” In the trailer, Goop Chief Content Officer Elise Loehnen claims she “had an exorcism” but we’re guessing it wasn’t sanctioned by the Catholic Church.
The sentiment around this show, which was announced last year, was prickly. And there were plenty of jokes about what a “goop lab” is.
https://twitter.com/_ElizabethMay/status/1214209169689063428
Yay, I love encouraging and promoting pseudoscience in a time when parents are increasingly endangering their children by listening to influencers over doctors 🙌😍
— 🇵🇸 Do you hear the people sing? (@thrillout) January 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/AmandaRosenberg/status/1214209184717103104
https://twitter.com/Judoon_Platoon/status/1214209543225384960
Well, there will definitely be some fact-checking come Jan. 24.
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