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Film writer Corey Atad, a contributor to Esquire, Hazlitt, Slate and other outlets, returns to the podcast for a discussion of Adam McKay's new all-star satire for Netflix Don’t Look Up, a disaster movie about a comet heading directly for Earth that also stands as an allegory for the threat of climate change and the systemic problems in American media and government that we've seen manifested during the pandemic.

Corey and I discuss what works about the movie and also what doesn't work, why this satire isn't exactly the new Dr. Strangelove, as well as our reaction to the filmmakers' odd conflation of any criticism this film has received from critics with their supposed climate change denialism or their hurt feelings about the film's depiction of the media.

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Trailer for The Wandering Earth (Gwo, 2019)