ABOUT THIS EPISODE
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
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