Coffee Prince

A 2007 disguise plot, read for its assumptions

Before you watch

  • watch the assigned episodes
  • read the lecture’s ground rule before you arrive — this week opens with a shared rule, not a debate

What we’re testing

We treat the disguise premise as evidence of what a 2007 audience needed to find plausible, rather than as a verdict on anyone’s actual beliefs, then trace what’s changed since.

Represents, does not verdict, a whole society’s beliefs.