We need parables more than ever. Perhaps we've grown too accustomed to a cultural climate that flattens complexity into right and wrong, sorts people into boxes, draws tribal lines and brandishes ...
Many people, one brain. It’s a classic storytelling device, and it’s showing up a lot more lately. By Maya Phillips This story contains spoilers. Masses of humans moving in total synchronization.
Source: Drawing by Adam Haynes-LaMotte based on a still image from S1E4 of Pluribus The first season of Vince Gilligan’s excellent sci-fi series Pluribus concluded on Apple TV a few weeks ago, and ...
Stranger Things Season 5’s biggest twist, that the Mind Flayer was the real villain all along, was pretty well signposted. The end of Season 4 had apparently turned the entire story upside down, with ...
In the imaginative mind of Vince Gilligan, the end of the world does not arrive with flaming alien spacecraft or pulverized monuments, but with the unsettling cheer of a Walmart greeter. His new ...
For a few exuberant days, Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), the despondent heroine of “Pluribus,” almost convinces herself to be happy at the end of the world. That wouldn’t be much of a challenge for most ...
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains major plot details from Volume 2 of Stranger Things Season 5 – Episodes 505-507. Three more episodes of Stranger Things Season 5 have arrived, leaving just the ...
A few years ago the writer Erik Hoel made a haunting observation. “I think the most depressing fact about humanity,” he said in a Substack newsletter, “is that during the 2000s most of the world was ...
There has been one potential twist in Stranger Things lore that a lot of fans were debating going into Season 5: who is the real big bad of this show? In Season 4 we learned how Henry Creel, aka test ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Vince Gilligan’s strange take on a postapocalypse required a lot of set-up. Vince Gilligan’s strange take on a ...