Damn watching the second episode and this evil lawyer lady just said “we have a nice middle class jury, they dislike the insurance company second only to their distaste for working class people” ouch

How’d all this class consciousness get in this TV show? Damn

Lol, yeah I love McGowan. His work is real speculative 🤷‍♂️ “just asking questions”. But his role as a citizen reporter, clipping articles out of papers and finding strange patterns was definitely valuable. If nothing else he pointed out that almost all of the hippie rock stars were the apolitical (or openly right wing, looking at you Zappa) sons and daughters of the US elite, who were catapulted to success to neuter countercultural movements.

A lot of old film noir basically had a premise of “there are no ethical or humane choices a person can make in this fucked up world”. From what I recall though, quite a few of the people writing and directing these did actually have socialist politics, a lot coming from Europe during the world wars. But the way they created these bleak, inescapable capitalist hellscapes is very effective at getting some complex ideas across.