The DM Review #2

In this review I will be discussing the Dhar Mann video “Turbaned Passenger Kicked Off Plane, What Happens is Shocking” and the problems along with it. One, it stars mother and son Kathy and Mikey Miller. While this has Mikey in it, this is not entirely a Mikey centered episode as he has a supporting role and is more calm and probably got off punishment. The villain of the video is Kathy herself. The video begins on a plane as Kathy and Mikey take their seats. Then a man with a turban named Baljit arrives and sits across from them. Kathy is not happy with this arrangement and asks Mikey, who is chewing sunflower seeds, to switch seats with her as she sees Baljit as a terrorist and at one point rudely calls him ‘Mohammed’ which caught the attention of a few passengers. When Kathy hears him chanting to himself, she assumes that he is a Muslim while he is actually a Sikh. Mikey is playing on his tablet and chewing on the sunflower seeds during the whole scene. Baljit sees him chewing and advises him to be careful with the seeds especially after he briefly chokes on one and coughs it out and Kathy rudely tells him to stay out of their business. A flight attendant tells all of the passengers to fasten their seatbelts as the plane is about to take off. Kathy calls for her and asks if she can switch her seats because she believes that Baljit’s prayer is a plot for a terrorist attack. The flight attendant assures her that the chanting prayer is common within his religion especially before flight and that there is nothing to worry about. Mikey is still coughing and Kathy gives him a bottle of water. She then takes out her phone and quickly snaps a picture of Baljit who instantly notices. When he questions it, she tries to deny it but then tells him the real reason why. She took the picture to show her husband so just in case if something happened to or on the flight, she would want him to know who would be responsible: Baljit. The flight attendant hears the argument and Kathy tells her she is not comfortable sitting next to Baljit and wants to move her seat. The flight attendant says there is one open seat left. Taking exception to everything said to him, Baljit takes the last seat. Kathy is relieved that he is gone and the flight attendant tells her that she should not have judged him. Kathy outright calls him a terrorist and the passengers heard her. The flight attendant leaves in utter disgust. Mikey takes a few more sunflower seeds and begins choking again. Kathy frantically calls for help as it is more severe this time. One passenger offers to give him water but Kathy turns her away, saying Mikey already had water. Baljit comes over to Mikey but Kathy refuses to have him near her son. He manages to get Mikey to spit out the seeds and everyone applauds him. Kathy thanks him for saving Mikey and he tells her that he is a doctor and performing surgery in town. He also tells her he was praying for Mikey’s safety. At that moment she felt really bad about how she treated him. She asks him if he could sit in his original seat next to her. He does so after turning down an offer from the plane captain to sit in first class. My perspective is that in the first video Kathy is first shown as playing favorites between her sons. But in this video, she is shown as highly critical of someone she just met. Things get worse in her later appearances when it comes to Mikey.