Podcast: Nope & Not Okay

Nope & Not Okay

Greeting programs! This week on the podcast we are discussing Jordan Peele’s latest directorial effort, the UFO horror thriller Nope, and Quinn Shephard’s indictment of influencer culture Not Okay.

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Review: ‘The Humans’ uses horror tropes to heighten family drama despite not being a horror movie

The Humans

While a family dinner can be a daunting prospect, I don’t know that I would call it a horror story. Of course, there is always drama and expertly deployed guilt and passive aggression, but it’s not like a demon is going to crawl out of the walls and eat everyone. The Humans, directed and adapted by Stephen Karam from his own Tony Award-winning play of the same, uses that feeling, that spectre of something waiting to cause harm, to heighten and enhance the drama around family dinner, and it works to great effect.

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