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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Unorthodox is a four-part Netflix-produced German-American miniseries directed by Maria Schrader and streamed since March 26, 2020. It is loosely based on Deborah Feldman's 2012 memoir, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots.Israeli actress Shira Haas stars as 19-year-old Esther ("Esty") Shapiro, a young woman from an ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The show chronicles her escape from the community and flight to Berlin, alternating between flashbacks from the last year of her life showing her upbringing, unhappy marriage, and secret pursuit of music lessons, and present day, where she becomes involved with a group of music students at an elite academy and eventually reconnects with her mother, who made a similar escape years before—all while being hunted down by her husband and his more world-wise cousin.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The story tackles themes of freedom, identity, family, heritage, and finding one's voice.
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 Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits: Esty's religious community is big on enforcing these rules. Women must cover their head and wear modest clothing (always dresses); they cannot sing in public or get a job and cannot perform instruments, and their main purpose is to give birth to as many babies as possible to replace the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
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 Anorgasmia: Exaggerated. Esther suffers from vaginismus, which makes intercourse with her husband excruciatingly painful and interferes with her cultural imperative to bear him children. Much of their problem stems from ignorance about sex, and trying to directly have intercourse without any foreplay. Later in the series, Esty is able to sleep with another character in Berlin (who understands better how sex works) and does not have any apparent difficulty.
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 Alcoholic Parent: Esty's father is an alcoholic and unable to take care of her by himself, which is the main reason why she was raised by her grandparents after her mother left.
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