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S7E9 - Flight of the Navigator by Childish Gambino

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We continue our season-long examination of Because The Internet with “Death by Numbers” and “Flight of the Navigator.” After attempting to take his own life, Gambino’s drug overdose sends him to a dreamy, intermediate world where he flies over everything and sees the connection and unity among all life on earth.

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Terms and conditions apply. From Spotify, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible

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episodes.

1:10.5

I'm your host Cole Kushner. Today we

1:26.0

continue our serialized analysis of because the internet by Childish Gambino.

1:31.0

On our last episode, we dissected Act 3 and witnessed the boy go

1:35.6

berserk at his house party, violently smashing everything in sight and kicking everyone out.

1:41.1

He goes on a late night drive to contemplate suicide as a means of escaping

1:44.8

his existential struggle and eventually returns home and attempts to kill himself by overdosing

1:49.7

on an unnamed drug. As the boy slides out of consciousness he becomes fixated on the

1:54.9

disappearance of the brown recluse spider on his wall, worried about the spider's

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