#also it was another episode of this [lengthy & entertaining enough to reliably fire up & draw to] media analysis podcast where it was like
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"the things that this story turns away from is more interesting than what it's actually trying to do" just like in billions
#tragic resonance w/the analysis of the disaster that is a whole other series like yeah....yeah plenty of relevant things#not being About what it is ostensibly about or at least not exploring it b/c it can't b/c it doesn't even really believe that or like#explore anything through a lens of Choices Guided By Principles rather than Who Was Born Good. the Born Gooded make the principled choices#also it was another episode of this [lengthy & entertaining enough to reliably fire up & draw to] media analysis podcast where it was like#& perhaps another authorial touch that invoking effects of like compassion / warmth / kindness in dynamics p much always fails#like yeah wow once again....just like on billions. it's the more Jokey Loserly Weird dynamics that are tossed [wow actually positive]?#amazing. while billions obviously does its gymnastics sometimes Or just gives the widest berth to engaging w/ideas that oh yknow#would challenge the not only unquestioned but embraced hierarchy of wendy Great Woman Theory ostensibly at the top#while obviously her burden is really to be sidekick enabler to Men vs like. a National empire. then the various more shitted on tiers#doesn't get worse than if you are a disabled man who doesn't look enough like damian lewis or someone allowed in the mcu (non villain)#winston billions
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