Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Jason Mittell
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I watched Alice and Steve over the past couple of days. Lots of great aspects, particularly the performances and its willingness to take the escalation of the conflict quite far, but ultimately disappointing in not being able to pull it together (with a very unsatisfying ending).
My latest newsletter is about Thomas Chatterton Williams, who can't stop blaming racism on the left.
On the contrary, I believe that raising the cap on incomes for Social Security taxes above the current ceiling of $184,500 is the best and fairest option and would likely be politically popular. It still leaves plenty of room for taxing the rich, even if it brings their effective tax rate over 50%.
It's the 45th anniversary of the release of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, and I think it's time to talk about how weird it is that there are zero canonically Jewish characters in a movie written by a Jew, directed by a different Jew, about a Jewish myth being real and the Jewish God murking Nazis
