Four years is a long time, especially after prevailing conservative media converged on transgender people as their punching bag du jour. Effective capture of the once-considered thoughtful, left-leading media landscape (see Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, etc) and using it to flood the zone with biased, horseshit talking points does a lot to nudge public opinion.
Remember all those Iraqi WMDs that everyone said were totally there?
It's going to take time to turn people around, and the work is going to fall onto the backs of transgender people being oppressed and victimized until those media sources can no longer deny the inhumanity they facilitated.
Not that they'll apologize for it or anything.
That last line tho...
Ed was also facing serious controversy in recent years – at the time of his death, he was still under investigation for allegedly trying to solicit sex from multiple minors.
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I'm gonna tell the kids this is F1 starring Brad Pitt.
Sumarizing recommendations from others, and adding a few deeper cuts...
- Hilda (start here)
- Amphibia
- Steven Universe
- Gravity Falls
- Infinity Train
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
- Craig of the Creek
- Centaurworld
- Over the Garden Wall
- Home Movies
Not understanding the larger context or who any of the referenced characters are is what kept me away. I gave it one episode and couldn’t understand what was happening so I bailed. It needed more narrative training wheels for folks like me.
Sad to see Apocalypse Hotel not here, but happy to see Lazarus suffering from its narrative wheel-spinning and complete lack of character definition.
A prodigy of a filmmaker and VFX artist barely out of high school, Parsons shot his YouTube following into the stratosphere with the viral success of his mysterious short, “The Backrooms (Found Footage).” It’s the first in a series of found-footage horror videos which have garnered many, many millions of views online and will now be adapted for the big screen by A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin Entertainment and 21 Laps.
Parsons will direct from a script by Roberto Patino. Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps, along with James Wan and Michael Clear for Atomic Monster, and Patino. Alayna Glasthal is overseeing for Atomic Monster, with Judson Scott exec producing for the company alongside White.
So it's actually being directed by Kane Parsons, the person who made the original shorts. I'm very glad to hear this. And written by Roberto Patino who wrote several season 2 episodes of Westworld.
This all bodes very well.
Frustrated by Guy Ritchie no longer making Guy Ritchie movies, Darren Aronofsky tags himself in.
All good; thanks so much!
Heuristics are real things deserving of both respect and fear.
The first season is pretty bad, but necessary to set up the various arcs.
Season 4 crammed the final two major plot arcs into it because they thought they were getting cancelled. But then they didn’t. Season 5 is almost entirely filler.
In fact, once you finish Season 4, I’d recommend jumping right to the series finale (last episode of S5) and watching that. Then watch Season 5 from the beginning and think of it as a spin-off show that didn’t go anywhere.
This was how I went through my last rewatch of the series a few years ago and it was perfect.