On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) ask if the Jake Paul/Mike Tyson “fight” that was “watched” (when they could get the stream to work) by “60 million people” (okay I’ll stop with the scare quotes) represents the future of streaming. Then they reviewed A Real Pain, Jesse Eisenberg’s new film about a pair of very different cousins on a tour of their family’s heritage sites. Make sure to swing by Bulwark+ on Friday for a bonus episode on the enduring legacy of The Wizard of Oz. And if you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend!
You should take the perspective of a teenager growing up in this new streaming world. As a parent of teenagers, it’s terrible.
Thanks for the spoiler warning. I feel heard -- or, rather, read. I listened even though I haven't had an opportunity to see the movie (I live in what movieland apparently regards as an outpost - St. Petersburg FL, and it only recently began showing here). I am a tad disappointed that it didn't meet with unadulterated praise from you, Alyssa, and Peter, but I shall see it anyway.
I had a friend who was born in pre-WWII Silesia, which was then part of Germany, and who immigrated to the US in the early 60s. She needed to have her passport renewed in the late-90s. When the new one was delivered and she saw that the gov't had located her birthplace in Poland, in a forlorn wail, she stated, "But I'm not Polish."