Today for #OnlySky (well, the first of two, I think - but coffee before I post the next), a TV review and some #SciFi talk.
Specifically, I look at The Peripheral: William Gibson's version, and the version presented by Amazon Prime in its freshly launched TV adaptation. Are you watching?
Sadly, a lot is lost in the choice to soften the class politics in Gibson's future thinking. ⬇️ When *will* we get better at bringing class into the equation?
#CoSoTV
https://onlysky.media/mclark/the-peripheral-plays-it-safe-with-william-gibsons-future-thinking/
@MLClark unfortunately i think the only real way to get class into most modern corporate media is so sneakily that half the audience misses it. Especially at Amazon of all places. I don’t know how they managed to get Squid Game made over at Netflix. The fact that a great deal of the right thinks it’s a condemnation of communism and not capitalism probably speaks to how the execs interpreted it.
@deadweirdo Hah! That, and the promise of a Season Two, which completely undermines the power of the first.
I wholeheartedly agree, though: corporate media will always consume dissent of corporate enterprise, and grow all the stronger for it.