The “Be Kind” dramatizations – morality plays with hilarious acting

These come up on my YouTube feed now and again, and one in a while I’ll click on the clickbaity title to watch them. And trust me, these morality plays – which all center around being a good person, doing good things, and if you do bad things, you’re going to get your comeuppance in the end – are a decent 10-minute diversion from the day.

This YouTube channel, “Be Kind” – there are others in this genre, but I’m going to focus on this batch – features arguably some of the hokiest acting I’ve ever seen outside of a 2-hour Lifetime “wife/girlfriend/single girl in distress from evil husband/boyfriend/total stranger” movie.

First off, why does everybody in these “Be Kind” movies have the thickest Eastern European accent and act like it’s nothing out of the ordinary? And why are some of the characters so one-dimensional, you almost expect the villain to twirl their curled mustache after tying the damsel to the railroad tracks?

Take, for example, this little gem, where some girl develops Munchausen proxy as an excuse for an illicit affair.

Hoo boy. That was a doozy.

Or this one, where a girl tries to hide the abuse from her fiance by switching her clothes with an errant stranger.

This one’s even better. It’s got a clickbait title that draws you into the video, only to watch 6-minute morality play about a scheming woman who tries to sabotage another girl’s employment interview.

Oh, and one more. I’m sure that in today’s world of store security and loss prevention, nobody would actually believe that a person could swap out a price tag on a luxury item and submit it to to the cashier at Dollar Tree prices … but hey, I’m not making these videos.

So as I said before, these are a nice little diversion, and if you can get past the hokey acting and the A-B-C plotlines of every episode … these videos are kinda cute.