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Which Uhmerican Consumers Will Be Watching These?

A modern coming-of-age story or some such nonsense peddled for the modern woman, just like the original novel...



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Critical Drinker's One-Year Anniversary Livestream

Apparently HBO has money to burn as it's going to make another season of Westworld, which will presumably be as woke or even more woke than season 3.
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Trump Derangement Syndrome in Hollywood

Some of that BS popped up in the latest Ray Donovan too, with the white supremacist group donning red hats that looked like MAGA hats.

The best part of this trailer is the use of "Blue Monday" by New Order.

The Saint Petersburg Valkyries

Russia is not fully traditional yet. Nor as autocratic as some would have us believe?

More Subversion of the Popular Understanding of the "Traditional Elites"

Fans of the TV series will be happy. But it will probably be junk. Upstairs, Downstairs will be a classic but will contemporary audiences and their children care? The Golden Age of British television is long past.

Roy Clark

Breitbart obituary

What Country Legend Roy Clark’s Death Symbolizes for America in 2018 By Boyd Cathey

Miranda Lambert, "Tin Man"

*edit* Don't know why the Austin City Limits youtube channel took the video down. Here's an video of a concert performance:

Figure out the title for yourselves

Joseph Pearce on The Andy Griffith Show

The Decline and Fall of The Andy Griffith Show

I've never watched the entire series so I didn't know that it takes such a turn at the end. How sad. Can the Shire be saved without force? Joseph Pearce thinks that vague love is enough but I disagree.

Because Strike Back Wasn't Converged Enough

TVLine

The Writers Wrote Themselves Into a Corner

with respect to the ending/big reveal for How I Met Your Mother? I didn't watch it, this is my opinion based on what others wrote about the ending. Anyway, apparently the character of Lily is not cute and quirky but a witch. Another reason to flush the show down the memory hole.

Since AmConMag Published This

Maybe there is something to those 20th century Christmas songs after all. Just kidding. Maybe.

No One Writes Great Christmas Songs Anymore by Addison Del Mastro
But maybe those midcentury classics weren’t really Christmas songs at all.

Know your target audience

These songs may be based on personal experiences, or not, but they definitely do resonate with women.



And Taylor Swift's "A Better Man" sung by Little Big Town.




Miranda Lambert's "Tin Man" received nominations for Grammy awards; so did "A Better Man."

What would Boyd Cathey Say about the new movie Hostiles?

"All I Want to Do Is Enter My House Justified!"
The Classic American Western As Emblem of Historic American Culture



Ride the High Country: An Elegy on Leadership

(((Stranger Things)))

Apparently the concern I had about Stranger Things going in a PC direction of girl-power was justified. But then again
this may have been the plan of the Duffer brothers all along, with El. First they hook you then they feed you propaganda.

That the show received praise from a writer for The American Conservative should have sparked suspicion that all was not right? And even if SJWs, who might prefer their antifa wet dream that is Bushwick, are critical of the series for being too white or some other reason, it does not mean that "conservatives" should embrace the show as their own.

The actress who plays Eleven, Millie Bobby Brown, reminded me of a young Nathalie Portman in The Professional. It turns out that she is also a Jew. And then there's Paul Reiser and Winona Ryder and at least one other actor, Finn Wolfhard. What about the creators, the Duffer Brothers? Are they Jewish? One of them has married a staunch Jew.

More of a resonance with Talmudic Judaism than just the portrayal of outcasts, the nerds of Stranger Things? Will Eleven turn out to be a Super Pharisee? Another orphan girl with super powers who saves the day, like Rey of nuStar Wars? Are the Duffer Brothers engaging in more Pharasaical subversion of American pop culture, once again through 80s nostalgia, following the footsteps of Jar Jar Abrams? ("Hello fellow white people"?) Avoiding the sentimentalism of Steven Spielberg is not enough to make their show good.

A story that has the moral that one should do good, avoid evil, is not sufficient to make it a good American story, if what is "American" is understood as properly having a Christian facet, even if only implicit, like in the fantasy of Tolkien. What is the Divine component of Stranger Things, if there is one? How is the embodiment of evil in the Upside Down to be understood? Even if the series is a good riff of or homage to 80s horror and fantasy, this would not be a point in its defense, as much of that genre wasn't Christian either, even if some element of truth can be found in it.

The evil thing reminds me a bit of the smoke monster of Lost. Is there any connection between the two series? And how is it "evil," other than being destructive of life or causing death? (Is there an equivalence being made between science of sci-fi and magic of fantasy?)

What about the supposed Biblical allusions?


Season 3
The Duffer Brothers Recap Stranger Things 2 The Lost Sister
"Stranger Things" and the sinister innocence of Reagan's America
NBC 'Think' piece: Netflix's ‘Stranger Things’ is racist
How Stranger Things 2 Explores Trauma

Indeed, He Is

Maybe someone in the alt right could put the poster to good use.

impa

He plays a mainland Chinese who is causing trouble in the UK, pursuing vigilante justice. Of course that the villains of the movie must be Irish, instead of Muslim terrorists.

A SJW Utopia?

But maybe they will find something to complain about for the new Star Trek TV series. After all, the Klingons seem to be the primary antagonists in the story, and they appear to be of darker colors, and perhaps even repulsive in appearance. A way to play up the xenophobia of some of certain human characters?

A Herb Movie

Men will go alt right.

Tokyo Idols

Screen Anarchy: Sundance 2017: World Premiere Trailer and Poster for TOKYO IDOLS



What are the similarities and differences in South Korea? (China? Taiwan?)

Mass urban society + "beta" inclinations of Asian men + delayed age for marriage --> idol entertainers