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Presenting: The Review, a new podcast from The Atlantic

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Politics, News, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Hello Floodlines listeners — a new podcast is here just for you. On The Review, The Atlantic's writers and guests discuss how we entertain ourselves and how that shapes the way we understand the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There is something weirdly deep about this movie.

0:07.8

I'm Megan Garver and on the Atlantic's new podcast, The Review, you can join writers from

0:12.6

our culture desk and around the magazine.

0:14.9

I am Shirley Weigh.

0:16.6

I'm David Sims.

0:17.6

I'm Hannah Dorgis.

0:18.6

I'm Sophie Gilbert.

0:19.6

We'll talk about movies, TV, music, and more, and try to tackle the big questions they

0:25.4

raise about art and American society.

0:28.6

So much of the reckoning now is a confrontation with how mean the internet was and why that

0:35.2

was and whether we can be different as people who continue celebrity culture now.

0:41.0

We'll go deep on great artists like August Wilson.

0:43.7

He's the closest we have to like a Shakespeare in the 20th century.

0:48.0

August Wilson's work really concerns itself with the experiences and with the language

0:53.2

and the music of black people in America who are working class whose experiences are

0:59.3

not like hashtag black excellence if you will.

1:03.8

And we'll explain how the business of entertainment shapes culture, often in ways that are hard

1:08.3

to see it first.

1:09.3

I think we've never needed fictional villains more to kind of inform the way we think about

1:14.1

real life villains.

1:15.1

But the problem is that the conversation is so polarized on who the real life villains

1:19.4

are.

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