Netflix's Polarizing Poster for The Goop Lab Sparks a Renewed Wave of Backlash

As some mock the poster's design, more take issue with Gwyneth Paltrow's 'pseudoscience'

Netflix just unveiled the poster for its new series that extends Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop empire, and it’s already proving to be one of the most polarizing pieces of streaming marketing in years.

There is, to be clear, a lot going on here. Many are simply mocking the poster’s far-from-subtle design approach of showing Paltrow, in pink, standing in the concentric folds of a descending cat’s-eye pattern. Any doubt about whether it’s meant to convey a vulva is doused by the “Reach new depths” tagline.

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