Long before anyone had heard about Covid-19, Patrick Somerville was pitching Station Eleven as “a postapocalyptic show about joy.” Somerville’s largely faithful adaptation of Emily St. John Mandel’s 2015 novel takes place 20 years after a particularly nasty flu strain has wiped out 99 percent of the world’s population. It’s …
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“The lurid publications depend for their appeal upon mayhem, murder, torture, abduction, superman heroics, voluptuous females, blazing machine guns, and hooded justice.” -Sterling North, Chicago Daily News, May 8th, 1940 “The Superman formula is essentially lynching.” – Gershon Legman, “The Psychopathology of Comic Books,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. II, …
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