Goop’s Netflix trailer: Paltrow sinks into a vagina, spews pseudoscience

Enlarge / Promotional image of Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow emerging from a stylized image of the female genital anatomy. (credit: Netflix)

Netflix released a trailer Monday for the six-episode series The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow, which-as expected-appears to spew as much pseudoscience and evidence-free wellness muck as the mogul's notorious "contextual commerce" business, Goop.

In Netflix's own words, the show intends to guide "deeply inquisitive" viewers through "boundary-pushing wellness topics," such as "energy healing and psychics." The show-like Goop-appears to be largely aimed at women, and the trailer's release was accompanied by an image of Paltrow appearing to descend into an artist's rendition of a vagina.

Goop critics were quick to decry the show, arguing that-like the brand-it actually intends to guide exploitable viewers through unproven and potentially dangerous health practices, such as the same garbage Goop has been promoting for years. And the show-like Goop-claims to "empower" women only by convincing them to try dubious treatments and products.

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