A Certain Kind of TV Show Is More Popular Than Ever. Thank Trump and the State of the World.
Briefly

The article discusses a common theme in contemporary storytelling involving protagonists who initially support powerful, secretive organizations but later question their motives. These characters often team up with outsiders to explore the dark realities of insidious forces like cultish corporations operating with government complicity. The narrative typically unfolds to reveal how deeply these entities influence everyday life, compelling the protagonists to take radical action, signifying a broader societal reckoning.
This character, once an enthusiastic participant within the institution, is becoming steadily more skeptical of what it really does, and why.
They have to take on the dangerous initiative on their own. And along the way, they'll make even more shocking discoveries about how this institution has embedded itself, inescapably, in everyday life.
Read at Slate Magazine
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