Media Receipts: Lanterns, Oscar Wilde, Pursuit of Jade, The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones

Summary: The Reactor Team (Christina Orlando, Leah Schnelbach, Emmet Asher-Perrin, Bailey Simer) discuss the best things they’ve watched or read this month.

Things we talk about:

• Lanterns and shows that stick the landing
• Superheroes and military propaganda, and ACAB includes Lanterns
• Friday Night Lights rewatch when!
• Hal Jordan is a notorious bum and a middle-aged slutty mess
• Primetime, Robert Pattinson’s weird career choices, and on-screen genitalia as jump scares
• You Can See Everything
• Media monsters & films about tech
• Major writer/filmmakers asking if they’re part of the problem
• Christopher Nolan & Elliot Page
• The legacy of Oscar Wilde & Alfred Lord Duglas
• Records of reading, Booktok, and how reading defines a life
• C-Dramas, Pursuit of Jade, and The Untamed
• Hurt/comfort and a male character as damsel in distress
• Black Sails is the most perfect show of all time, fight me about it.
• How we react when “everyone” is watching a thing
• Fifty Shades of Grey is the Young Sheldon of erotica
• Christina’s feelings about dark academia and shitty rich kids (it’s not trauma, it’s praxis)
• The seasons of dark academia books, The Secret History
• Richard Papen, unlikeable main characters, and the purpose of discomfort in fiction
• Piranesi, Black Star, and media vibe curation

View full show notes and transcript on Reactormag.com

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