No, I think that makes sense. And I can see scenarios in which the literal woman in a refrigerator would be a powerful and angry critique, but the way Joss combines it with female pain and the POV in the narrative made it feel less like a critique and more like... emo porn or something. It is hard to put my finger on why, but just that a large portion of the show felt like it was from the male gaze, not the female one.

And yeah, I think even the premise could be done well and could make a dark and disturbing critique of the patriarchy and the construction of women as objects to be wiped again and again to fit into the structure (and I think Claymore and Gunslinger Girl do so much more successfully), but it feels too much like Joss wants to have his exploitative cake and eat it too by critiquing it, but only sort of.