63 - The New Mutants Postmortem with Olav Rokne (Patreon)

The audio for this episode was corrupted but our brilliant producer Jamar was able to recover it as much as possible. 

Olav Rokne from the Hugo Book Club joins for this episode on The New Mutants, the final Fox X-Men film. The film, which comes straight from the mind of the director of The Fault in our Stars and one of the writers of Jackass, turns out to be a really tepid last gasp of this franchise with a healthy dose of anti-Indigenous prejudice. The movie literally starts with "there are two bears inside you." From this awful film we have a great discussion on its distinctions from the source material, identity, class, race, and the economics of superhero films. 

Check out Olav's writing at the Hugo Book Club Blog 

ReComradations

Olav: Ted Lasso on Apple TV+ [Trailer]

Evan: With Gourley and Rust [Patreon]