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At one point did your dad ever look at you and say, “Hey, I hear there’s a bunch of tech jobs just right over there. If you get into tech, you know, there’s some real money to be made!”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wanted the best for his kids. He was a positive influence on me. When he figured out I wanted to be an actor, which happened maybe in the sixth grade, I played Mogwli in \u003cem>The Jungle Book\u003c/em>. Since there were no actors or singers in my family, my dad would drive me every Sunday to a commercial acting class for kids. He was a disciplinarian, and I remember car rides on the way to an audition for a musical. He would be like, “Okay, you got to make sure you hit that note.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Throughout your career, how have you dealt with the issue of representation? There aren’t many roles for Latinos. According to a 2021 UCLA report, Latinos appeared in only about 6 percent of roles, despite making up 19 percent of the population in the United States.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel honored to be a part of the change. Latinx is the new wave of representation. We’re seeing a lot more diversity in film and TV. When I was growing up, all I saw on TV was George Lopez and Cheech and Chong. On our show, we have two Latinos in the lead cast—Shakira Barrera and I. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope there’s a young man or woman who lives on the east side of San Jose and watches \u003cem>Sprung\u003c/em> and sees me, brown skin, and says, “Oh, wow, I could do that, too. You work so hard, grinding at your career and then to finally get to a point where you can give back and effect some change. That’s the dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As I understand it, you’re still loyal to Bay Area sports teams. So if someone decided to make a biopic or TV show about an era for one of those teams, who would you want to play?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know! I’d want to help produce. Maybe the passing of the torch from [Joe] Montana to Steve Young [both former 49ers quarterbacks]. Those are the 49ers’ glory days, man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Sprung’ premieres on Friday, Aug. 19, on the free streaming service Freevee. \u003ca href=\"https://press.amazonstudios.com/us/en/amazon-freevee-series/sprung/1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The actor talks with Brian Watt about his South Bay roots, family expectations, and Latino representation. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006491,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1031},"headData":{"title":"Raised in San Jose, Phillip Garcia Stars in New Pandemic Comedy Series 'Sprung' | KQED","description":"The actor talks with Brian Watt about his South Bay roots, family expectations, and Latino representation. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Raised in San Jose, Phillip Garcia Stars in New Pandemic Comedy Series 'Sprung'","datePublished":"2022-08-15T18:20:02.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:54:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/7a803c56-07a2-44f9-b7a5-aef700170292/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"WpOldSlug":"raised-in-san-jose-philip-garcia-stars-in-new-pandemic-comedy-series-sprung","nprByline":"Brian Watt and Alexander Gonzalez","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"Yes","path":"/arts/13917506/phillip-garcia-san-jose-sprung","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Phillip Garcia landed a starring role in the new TV comedy \u003cem>Sprung\u003c/em>, which premieres this Friday on Amazon subsidiary Freevee, he couldn’t wait to tell his grandma—and not just because he knew she’d be proud. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 34-year-old actor, who’s guest starred on crime dramas like \u003cem>Criminal Minds\u003c/em> and \u003cem>CSI: Vegas\u003c/em>, was excited about something else: “I could spare her not having to see me die on TV anymore,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11908377","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Garcia, originally from San Jose, says family is important to him—on and off screen. In \u003cem>Sprung\u003c/em>, his character Rooster is released from prison due to COVID, and he ends up sheltering in place with a group of formerly incarcerated folks. Those include the show’s hero and Rooster’s former cellmate Jack (Garret Dillahunt), Rooster’s mom Barb (Martha Plimpton) and Gloria, Jack’s former prison girlfriend (Shakira Barrera).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show, created by Greg Garcia (\u003cem>My Name Is Earl\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Raising Hope\u003c/em>), follows Jack as he navigates life outside prison and bands together with this new family, using their criminal expertise to do some good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes this Robin Hood story, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor,” said Garcia, who got his start in musical theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Brian Watt caught up with Garcia to talk about \u003cem>Sprung\u003c/em>, his Bay Area roots and the possibility of a 49ers film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.headshot.sq_.jpg\" alt=\"A Latino man in headshot against a dark background\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13917624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.headshot.sq_.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.headshot.sq_-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillip Garcia. \u003ccite>(Anderson Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIAN WATT: Was there ever a moment of trepidation about doing a show that basically laughs at the expense of the pandemic?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PHILLIP GARCIA: Without getting too political, Greg [Garcia] did a great job, not hitting you over the head with it. The story is truly about these characters going through something that we all went through. I think we need something like this right now. We need to poke fun at ourselves a little bit, and to say, “Hey, remember when we didn’t know whether we could touch our faces?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it about your character Rooster that you connect with?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, I auditioned for the villain character, and all my friends, they all said, “Oh, Phillip is so sweet. He has such a positive outlook.” I think that’s Rooster. He’s the good guy, but he’s misunderstood at times. If there’s something that he could mess up along the way, oh, he’ll definitely mess it up: He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. And it’s funny because my mom, Barb, played by Martha Plimpton, I think the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, in terms of the IQ perspective. Greg did a good job, making Barb and Rooster the butt of every joke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re based in L.A. now, but you started in eastern San Jose, in Alum Rock. What was it like growing up there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s predominantly Latino, more blue-collar people who are working everyday to try and make ends meet. You saw people struggling. My dad worked three jobs to try and support my brother and me. For me, to be the change, it’s a lot of weight. I just want to make my city proud. I want to make my family proud. I think about the way I grew up and the things I was surrounded by, and thank God for my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13917625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.rose_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Latino man holds a flower in the middle of the street looking forlorn \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13917625\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.rose_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.rose_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.rose_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.rose_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.rose_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Garcia.rose_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillip Garcia, seen in an episode of ‘Sprung.’ \u003ccite>(Freevee/Amazon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re right next to the tech sector. At one point did your dad ever look at you and say, “Hey, I hear there’s a bunch of tech jobs just right over there. If you get into tech, you know, there’s some real money to be made!”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wanted the best for his kids. He was a positive influence on me. When he figured out I wanted to be an actor, which happened maybe in the sixth grade, I played Mogwli in \u003cem>The Jungle Book\u003c/em>. Since there were no actors or singers in my family, my dad would drive me every Sunday to a commercial acting class for kids. He was a disciplinarian, and I remember car rides on the way to an audition for a musical. He would be like, “Okay, you got to make sure you hit that note.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Throughout your career, how have you dealt with the issue of representation? There aren’t many roles for Latinos. According to a 2021 UCLA report, Latinos appeared in only about 6 percent of roles, despite making up 19 percent of the population in the United States.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel honored to be a part of the change. Latinx is the new wave of representation. We’re seeing a lot more diversity in film and TV. When I was growing up, all I saw on TV was George Lopez and Cheech and Chong. On our show, we have two Latinos in the lead cast—Shakira Barrera and I. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope there’s a young man or woman who lives on the east side of San Jose and watches \u003cem>Sprung\u003c/em> and sees me, brown skin, and says, “Oh, wow, I could do that, too. You work so hard, grinding at your career and then to finally get to a point where you can give back and effect some change. That’s the dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As I understand it, you’re still loyal to Bay Area sports teams. So if someone decided to make a biopic or TV show about an era for one of those teams, who would you want to play?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know! I’d want to help produce. Maybe the passing of the torch from [Joe] Montana to Steve Young [both former 49ers quarterbacks]. Those are the 49ers’ glory days, man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Sprung’ premieres on Friday, Aug. 19, on the free streaming service Freevee. \u003ca href=\"https://press.amazonstudios.com/us/en/amazon-freevee-series/sprung/1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13917506/phillip-garcia-san-jose-sprung","authors":["byline_arts_13917506"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2210","arts_10278","arts_1084","arts_585","arts_2792"],"featImg":"arts_13917626","label":"arts"},"arts_13908056":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13908056","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13908056","score":null,"sort":[1642022106000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-not-so-secret-second-life-of-your-amazon-returns","title":"The (Not-So) Secret Second Life of Your Amazon Returns","publishDate":1642022106,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The (Not-So) Secret Second Life of Your Amazon Returns | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Sometimes, I have the good fortune to use this space to advance an arcane theory about television. Sometimes I use it to talk about a news event of interest. Today, I want to tell you about the weirdest thing I have been watching on YouTube recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has to do with returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Mull \u003ca href=\"https://click.nl.npr.org/?qs=f71d108f3e57526e23e2b5ba08681981f9ca8fc41455e244597b7098eb7668c212d89f755a6d07ece4442863c2e7f9dc7ec23e2432497694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote a piece for \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in October about the fact that when online purchases in particular are returned, they generally aren’t worth going to the trouble of vetting, inspecting and reselling. They’re sort of cursed (my word, not hers), and it’s really just a problem of getting rid of them. As it turns out, one thing that can happen to them is that people order pallets of them, knowing either something or next to nothing about what they’re getting, and then they open the pallets for the benefit of YouTube viewers. (These videos are not new, to be clear; they are just new to me.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider HopeScope. Hope has just over a million followers as of this writing (she ran a promotion where she would give away, among other things, a Peloton when she hit a million). She buys a lot of weird stuff in different videos and shows it off: lost luggage, used Kardashian clothes, knockoff versions of movie dresses. But one of the things she does is buy pallets of Amazon returns from a liquidation site. (And Target returns, incidentally.) The merchandise comes to her in massive pallets full of mystery, and she opens the packages and sees how she fared. She tends to go for pallets that are labeled as if they’re mostly clothes. Oooh, leggings! Underwear! A KFC Christmas sweater!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_U29oAqsiw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One time, she bought a pallet that seemed to have been damaged: a bunch of the clothes looked like they had been burned and/or run over. The clothes might not have been much to look at, but there was clearly a heck of a story there. I might have paid just for the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This might seem like a pretty chill hobby, but I am always startled when she reveals that she paid something like $1,500 for a box of returns that are supposedly “worth” $20,000. She keeps some things, donates some things, resells some things and throws away things that have been, for instance, on fire at some point. She always seems to feel that in the end she did well, but … what is doing well, actually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13874905']She is not the only person who does this. There are different \u003cem>genres\u003c/em> of these videos. People who are clothing oriented do them. I’ve seen a bunch of people who are tech oriented crow about getting $2,000 worth of “tech” for $150 or something and then open the box and find a lot of mislabeled cables and printer ink and, often, one or two things that really \u003cem>were\u003c/em> sold for a pretty high price and really \u003cem>do\u003c/em> seemingly work; you just don’t get to decide what they are. (I once saw a stray, apparently unopened Anova sous vide machine—a pretty decent grab—show up in a clothing pallet, and the person was like, “Eh, I don’t know what this is.” Similarly, one guy got a Dire Straits record on vinyl and said, “Never heard of them.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the reveals—It’s a hot styling tool for your hair! It’s expensive earbuds! It’s a Nespresso!—are only the beginning of figuring out what you’ve actually done. Because these things have been returned. That means many have been opened, many have been used, many have been found wanting in some way. Again: Many have been \u003cem>used\u003c/em>. I saw a guy who was pretty psyched about a pair of earbuds until he saw … the evidence that they had been in someone’s ears. Ditto a shaver that had been used to shave someone’s … something before being returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One couple I have seen has actually done a couple of rounds of tracking how much money they can make by buying and trying to resell (like on Facebook Marketplace) the items in a pallet. They have found it to be … somewhat unsatisfying. The woman estimated that once she accounted for her time, she earned about 12 bucks an hour “flipping” a pallet, after quite a bit of effort. It’s better than nothing!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4Nrgs6iV4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I don’t think the actual monetary gain is the goal here at all. It’s the surprise of it and the performance of it. And it’s the promise of getting something for nothing, even if the something is not something you want. These folks use the word “worth” in the stretchiest and most generous way possible—”This is worth $300!” just means that’s what it was being sold for on Amazon. The fact that something was once sold for a particular price does not actually imbue it with that substantive value (ask the people who invested in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907776/elizabeth-holmes-convicted-of-fraud-is-more-fascinating-than-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theranos\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894072']What’s really striking is how these videos underscore the onslaught of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em>, the acquisition and disposable nature of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em>, and the fact that sometimes just getting a bunch of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em> that’s so cheaply made it’s not worth trying to resell piece by piece makes these YouTubers feel like they’re getting away with something. (I also think that in effect, these people have discovered the dollar store and could get a similar effect by going into a dollar store with their eyes closed and just taking home the first 50 things they ran into.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a guy who summed this up \u003ca href=\"https://click.nl.npr.org/?qs=f71d108f3e57526ea70f46c70c5f37ef0f9ea59fe01b09c592f82b4e05b1c3ad8f31fecadce0db3019eaded4deda0c9cb82e7e48d7e2de7a\">in one video\u003c/a> so perfectly that I wrote down his comment immediately. He had just found, among his “tech” stuff, a package of 100 interoffice mail envelopes. Just … interoffice mail envelopes, in there with the doggie camera and the filthy earbuds. He didn’t need them, didn’t want them, knew immediately he would throw them away, but he was still really impressed that he’d gotten such great value. He said: “No use for these, unfortunately, but damn!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fDMcWYg2wU\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you liked this excerpt from NPR’s \u003cem>Pop Culture Happy Hour\u003c/em>, consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>subscribing to our newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> to get recommendations on what’s making us happy every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+%28not-so%29+secret+second+life+of+your+Amazon+returns&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"People order mystery pallets of online returns, then open the boxes on YouTube—and it's surprisingly fascinating.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007318,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1142},"headData":{"title":"The (Not-So) Secret Second Life of Your Amazon Returns | KQED","description":"People order mystery pallets of online returns, then open the boxes on YouTube—and it's surprisingly fascinating.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The (Not-So) Secret Second Life of Your Amazon Returns","datePublished":"2022-01-12T21:15:06.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:08:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Thomas Samson","nprByline":"Linda Holmes","nprImageAgency":"AFP via Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1072148460","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1072148460&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072148460/online-returns-youtube?ft=nprml&f=1072148460","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:58:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 12 Jan 2022 06:00:36 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:58:42 -0500","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13908056/the-not-so-secret-second-life-of-your-amazon-returns","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sometimes, I have the good fortune to use this space to advance an arcane theory about television. Sometimes I use it to talk about a news event of interest. Today, I want to tell you about the weirdest thing I have been watching on YouTube recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has to do with returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Mull \u003ca href=\"https://click.nl.npr.org/?qs=f71d108f3e57526e23e2b5ba08681981f9ca8fc41455e244597b7098eb7668c212d89f755a6d07ece4442863c2e7f9dc7ec23e2432497694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote a piece for \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in October about the fact that when online purchases in particular are returned, they generally aren’t worth going to the trouble of vetting, inspecting and reselling. They’re sort of cursed (my word, not hers), and it’s really just a problem of getting rid of them. As it turns out, one thing that can happen to them is that people order pallets of them, knowing either something or next to nothing about what they’re getting, and then they open the pallets for the benefit of YouTube viewers. (These videos are not new, to be clear; they are just new to me.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider HopeScope. Hope has just over a million followers as of this writing (she ran a promotion where she would give away, among other things, a Peloton when she hit a million). She buys a lot of weird stuff in different videos and shows it off: lost luggage, used Kardashian clothes, knockoff versions of movie dresses. But one of the things she does is buy pallets of Amazon returns from a liquidation site. (And Target returns, incidentally.) The merchandise comes to her in massive pallets full of mystery, and she opens the packages and sees how she fared. She tends to go for pallets that are labeled as if they’re mostly clothes. Oooh, leggings! Underwear! A KFC Christmas sweater!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/H_U29oAqsiw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/H_U29oAqsiw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One time, she bought a pallet that seemed to have been damaged: a bunch of the clothes looked like they had been burned and/or run over. The clothes might not have been much to look at, but there was clearly a heck of a story there. I might have paid just for the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This might seem like a pretty chill hobby, but I am always startled when she reveals that she paid something like $1,500 for a box of returns that are supposedly “worth” $20,000. She keeps some things, donates some things, resells some things and throws away things that have been, for instance, on fire at some point. She always seems to feel that in the end she did well, but … what is doing well, actually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13874905","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She is not the only person who does this. There are different \u003cem>genres\u003c/em> of these videos. People who are clothing oriented do them. I’ve seen a bunch of people who are tech oriented crow about getting $2,000 worth of “tech” for $150 or something and then open the box and find a lot of mislabeled cables and printer ink and, often, one or two things that really \u003cem>were\u003c/em> sold for a pretty high price and really \u003cem>do\u003c/em> seemingly work; you just don’t get to decide what they are. (I once saw a stray, apparently unopened Anova sous vide machine—a pretty decent grab—show up in a clothing pallet, and the person was like, “Eh, I don’t know what this is.” Similarly, one guy got a Dire Straits record on vinyl and said, “Never heard of them.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the reveals—It’s a hot styling tool for your hair! It’s expensive earbuds! It’s a Nespresso!—are only the beginning of figuring out what you’ve actually done. Because these things have been returned. That means many have been opened, many have been used, many have been found wanting in some way. Again: Many have been \u003cem>used\u003c/em>. I saw a guy who was pretty psyched about a pair of earbuds until he saw … the evidence that they had been in someone’s ears. Ditto a shaver that had been used to shave someone’s … something before being returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One couple I have seen has actually done a couple of rounds of tracking how much money they can make by buying and trying to resell (like on Facebook Marketplace) the items in a pallet. They have found it to be … somewhat unsatisfying. The woman estimated that once she accounted for her time, she earned about 12 bucks an hour “flipping” a pallet, after quite a bit of effort. It’s better than nothing!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/1z4Nrgs6iV4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1z4Nrgs6iV4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>But I don’t think the actual monetary gain is the goal here at all. It’s the surprise of it and the performance of it. And it’s the promise of getting something for nothing, even if the something is not something you want. These folks use the word “worth” in the stretchiest and most generous way possible—”This is worth $300!” just means that’s what it was being sold for on Amazon. The fact that something was once sold for a particular price does not actually imbue it with that substantive value (ask the people who invested in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907776/elizabeth-holmes-convicted-of-fraud-is-more-fascinating-than-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theranos\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13894072","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>What’s really striking is how these videos underscore the onslaught of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em>, the acquisition and disposable nature of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em>, and the fact that sometimes just getting a bunch of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em> that’s so cheaply made it’s not worth trying to resell piece by piece makes these YouTubers feel like they’re getting away with something. (I also think that in effect, these people have discovered the dollar store and could get a similar effect by going into a dollar store with their eyes closed and just taking home the first 50 things they ran into.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a guy who summed this up \u003ca href=\"https://click.nl.npr.org/?qs=f71d108f3e57526ea70f46c70c5f37ef0f9ea59fe01b09c592f82b4e05b1c3ad8f31fecadce0db3019eaded4deda0c9cb82e7e48d7e2de7a\">in one video\u003c/a> so perfectly that I wrote down his comment immediately. He had just found, among his “tech” stuff, a package of 100 interoffice mail envelopes. Just … interoffice mail envelopes, in there with the doggie camera and the filthy earbuds. He didn’t need them, didn’t want them, knew immediately he would throw them away, but he was still really impressed that he’d gotten such great value. He said: “No use for these, unfortunately, but damn!”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7fDMcWYg2wU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7fDMcWYg2wU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you liked this excerpt from NPR’s \u003cem>Pop Culture Happy Hour\u003c/em>, consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>subscribing to our newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> to get recommendations on what’s making us happy every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+%28not-so%29+secret+second+life+of+your+Amazon+returns&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13908056/the-not-so-secret-second-life-of-your-amazon-returns","authors":["byline_arts_13908056"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_2210","arts_4554"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13908057","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13906387":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13906387","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13906387","score":null,"sort":[1637612432000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"amazon-reinvents-the-wheel-of-time-for-the-small-screen-with-surprising-turns","title":"Amazon Reinvents 'The Wheel of Time' for the Small Screen, With Surprising Turns","publishDate":1637612432,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Amazon Reinvents ‘The Wheel of Time’ for the Small Screen, With Surprising Turns | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>This isn’t the article about Amazon’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series \u003cem>The Wheel of Time\u003c/em> that you were supposed to be reading right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn’t one I’d planned to write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You were supposed to be reading a sort of chatty, funny, and ultimately invaluable introduction to the sprawling world of the series, and its many characters, factions, lands and institutions drawn from Jordan’s books. It would be the product of a deep knowledge of, and affection for, the scope and details of the 14-volume saga (the last three of which were co-written by Brandon Sanderson, following Jordan’s death in 2007). It would offer a refresher course for those who’ve read the novels, and much-needed guidance to those going into the Amazon series without knowing the difference between the Red Ajah and the Blue Ajah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also be filled with incisive, clear-eyed critiques of the series—noting with effusive praise what it got right, and ticking off, with withering barbs, what it got wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re not reading that piece, because my friend and colleague Petra Mayer isn’t around to write it like she was supposed to. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1055585327/npr-books-editor-petra-mayer-has-died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She died suddenly last weekend.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d traded texts about the \u003cem>Wheel of Time \u003c/em>primer she was planning to write for NPR. It would have been something to bookmark, a rich and satisfying stew of information and opinion to keep by your side as you watched the series, I know that with an ironclad certainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, you get this comparatively thin gruel—a review, written by me, someone who has never gotten around to reading the books. To the impossibly long list of reasons to be angry that my brilliant, funny, profoundly nerdy friend died so suddenly, it’s way down at the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it makes the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/wot-2_wide-d03738581cbedc71c5705203cf528b84ea77c6c9-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A woman, viewed from above, stands with arms outstretched, head titled up, eyes closed, performing a ritual.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moiraine Layer: An Aes Sedai (Rosamund Pike) gets her magic on. \u003ccite>(Amazon Studios)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The shadow of the past\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gotta admit, that ferry scene gave me pause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in the Amazon series, several of our doughty heroes escape from their isolated, bucolic village at night, via ferry. In hot pursuit: A hooded creature, dressed in black, astride a black horse—he’s a servant of a powerful malevolent entity called The Dark One, who has, it appears, returned after a long absence to threaten the world once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Huh\u003c/em>, I thought. \u003cem>How about that. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That certain elements of\u003cem> The Wheel of Time\u003c/em> would echo elements of \u003cem>The Lord of the Rings\u003c/em> seems inevitable, of course. Tolkien’s massive work inspired scores of imitators, and later, interpolators—writers who would create high-fantasy worlds that would inflect and invert the now-hoary tropes Tolkien helped usher in: A Chosen One, A Dark Lord and his Dark Riders, a Foul Army of Orcs, A Council of Wise, Color-Coded Wizards, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for a scene so early on to so closely map itself over one of the more memorable events in \u003cem>The Fellowship of the Ring\u003c/em>—both the Tolkien book and its Peter Jackson film adaptation—seemed to bode ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needn’t have worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the ferry scene in question doesn’t end with the heroes’ escape, as it does in Tolkien—it goes further, and includes a turn of events that raises the stakes and reveals that the world of the series will admit many more shades of gray than the tidy Light/Shadow duality of Middle-Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, the plot involves the search for The Chosen One—in the lore of the series, the long-prophesied person called the Dragon Reborn, who alone can defeat the Dark One. This, too, is familiar ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13654506']But the series introduces a twist, and introduces it early: The Dragon Reborn may be one of four people in the remote village of Two Rivers. There is Rand (Josha Stradowski), a humble farmboy; Egwene (Madeleine Madden), a young woman recently admitted to the ranks of the village’s matriarchy; Perrin (Marcus Rutherford), a hulking young blacksmith; and Mat (Barney Harris), a charming wastrel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that “Reborn” business? Turns out the clash between Dragon and Dark One has happened before, many times, and will continue to happen. (\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Wheel\u003c/strong> of Time\u003c/em>, geddit?) But another twist: The last time the Dragon faced the Dark One, he blew it, and the world was broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempting to patch things up: An elite organization of women magic-users called the Aes Sedai. We first meet Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) and her warder, the taciturn Lan (Daniel Henney), who are searching for the Dragon Reborn before he or she can be found by the Dark One, his servants, or his army of Trollocs (think Orcs with horns and goat-feet).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again and again, the series executes familiar story beats and fantasy tropes with a contemporary sensibility that would likely cause old Professor Tolkien to spill his Twinings all over his tweed waistcoast. A matter-of-factly diverse approach to casting, storylines that foreground women, the existence of same-sex couples, and it all taking place in a moral universe where characters make choices that aren’t dictated by their noble blood, or the relative swarthiness of their skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ZozKfRqvA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the six episodes made available to the press (the first season consists of eight episodes, and a Season 2 has already been picked up), the central storyline splits off into several threads, giving each of our main characters room to breathe, and their situations time to complicate, in ways that feel necessary and intriguing—without the sense of narrative bloat the bogs down so many streaming series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dialogue mostly avoids the fantasy-genre trap of sounding falsely stiff and heightened, as if the screenwriter entered Beowulf into Google Translate; neither does it sound too jarringly contemporary (i.e., “Word comes from the North! We are to just like chill here for the nonce!”)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What do you call a scaled-down epic?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You won’t need to have read the sprawling, 14-volume fantasy saga to know instinctively that what you’re seeing on the Amazon series only skims its surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feints are made to indicate the scope of Jordan’s world, and its history—a bit of dialogue here, a snippet of song there. Characters gets a moment or two to invoke their homeland, or their ancestry. But the ultimate effect is to cause the world underpinning the events depicted—the world that always seems to hover just offscreen—to insist upon itself, and always compete for our attention with the story we’re watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894806']It’s not that the show looks cheap, by any means. There are plenty of breathtaking vistas and vibrant, richly textured costumes and elaborate sets. It’s just that it can’t help but feel scaled down, reduced, distilled, made for television. Something about the quality of light in certain scenes seems a bit too sharp, too clean, for a world lit only by sun and fire. The sinister Children of the Light, for example, wear cloaks so blindingly and pristinely white, even as they trudge through muddy forests, that you can’t help wondering about their OxyClean budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the world of \u003cem>The Wheel of Time \u003c/em>doesn’t come off as satisfyingly grimy and lived-in as the world of other fantasy series, and it never quite musters the sweep and scope of its older brothers—Jackson’s \u003cem>Lord of the Rings\u003c/em>, HBO’s \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>—it does manage to tell its story in a way that’s compelling, unique and, frequently, surprising, full of narrative twists and character turns that even the most jaded fantasy reader might not see coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know Petra had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/01/06/168627939/for-wheel-of-time-fans-the-last-battle-is-at-hand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deep affection for the book series\u003c/a> (and also strong caveats, because: Petra). I don’t know what her ultimate of the opinion of the show might have been, but I do know this: The last time we talked, she was just beginning to watch the Amazon show, so I braced myself to spend a few days reading a series of her stream-of-consciousness, expletive-studded texts about it, full of joy and outrage, effusive praise and bones to pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m still waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Amazon+reinvents+%27The+Wheel+of+Time%27+for+the+small+screen%2C+with+surprising+turns&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Compelling characters and twists keep things rolling in this long-awaited adaptation of Robert Jordan's sprawling fantasy epic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007460,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1441},"headData":{"title":"Amazon Reinvents 'The Wheel of Time' for the Small Screen, With Surprising Turns | KQED","description":"Compelling characters and twists keep things rolling in this long-awaited adaptation of Robert Jordan's sprawling fantasy epic.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Amazon Reinvents 'The Wheel of Time' for the Small Screen, With Surprising Turns","datePublished":"2021-11-22T20:20:32.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:11:00.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Jan Thijs","nprByline":"Glen Weldon","nprImageAgency":"Amazon Studios","nprStoryId":"1056816693","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1056816693&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/20/1056816693/amazon-reinvents-the-wheel-of-time-for-the-small-screen-with-surprising-turns?ft=nprml&f=1056816693","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 21 Nov 2021 10:34:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 20 Nov 2021 07:00:50 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 21 Nov 2021 10:34:28 -0500","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13906387/amazon-reinvents-the-wheel-of-time-for-the-small-screen-with-surprising-turns","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This isn’t the article about Amazon’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series \u003cem>The Wheel of Time\u003c/em> that you were supposed to be reading right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn’t one I’d planned to write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You were supposed to be reading a sort of chatty, funny, and ultimately invaluable introduction to the sprawling world of the series, and its many characters, factions, lands and institutions drawn from Jordan’s books. It would be the product of a deep knowledge of, and affection for, the scope and details of the 14-volume saga (the last three of which were co-written by Brandon Sanderson, following Jordan’s death in 2007). It would offer a refresher course for those who’ve read the novels, and much-needed guidance to those going into the Amazon series without knowing the difference between the Red Ajah and the Blue Ajah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also be filled with incisive, clear-eyed critiques of the series—noting with effusive praise what it got right, and ticking off, with withering barbs, what it got wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re not reading that piece, because my friend and colleague Petra Mayer isn’t around to write it like she was supposed to. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1055585327/npr-books-editor-petra-mayer-has-died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She died suddenly last weekend.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d traded texts about the \u003cem>Wheel of Time \u003c/em>primer she was planning to write for NPR. It would have been something to bookmark, a rich and satisfying stew of information and opinion to keep by your side as you watched the series, I know that with an ironclad certainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, you get this comparatively thin gruel—a review, written by me, someone who has never gotten around to reading the books. To the impossibly long list of reasons to be angry that my brilliant, funny, profoundly nerdy friend died so suddenly, it’s way down at the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it makes the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/wot-2_wide-d03738581cbedc71c5705203cf528b84ea77c6c9-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A woman, viewed from above, stands with arms outstretched, head titled up, eyes closed, performing a ritual.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moiraine Layer: An Aes Sedai (Rosamund Pike) gets her magic on. \u003ccite>(Amazon Studios)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The shadow of the past\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Gotta admit, that ferry scene gave me pause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in the Amazon series, several of our doughty heroes escape from their isolated, bucolic village at night, via ferry. In hot pursuit: A hooded creature, dressed in black, astride a black horse—he’s a servant of a powerful malevolent entity called The Dark One, who has, it appears, returned after a long absence to threaten the world once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Huh\u003c/em>, I thought. \u003cem>How about that. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That certain elements of\u003cem> The Wheel of Time\u003c/em> would echo elements of \u003cem>The Lord of the Rings\u003c/em> seems inevitable, of course. Tolkien’s massive work inspired scores of imitators, and later, interpolators—writers who would create high-fantasy worlds that would inflect and invert the now-hoary tropes Tolkien helped usher in: A Chosen One, A Dark Lord and his Dark Riders, a Foul Army of Orcs, A Council of Wise, Color-Coded Wizards, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for a scene so early on to so closely map itself over one of the more memorable events in \u003cem>The Fellowship of the Ring\u003c/em>—both the Tolkien book and its Peter Jackson film adaptation—seemed to bode ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needn’t have worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the ferry scene in question doesn’t end with the heroes’ escape, as it does in Tolkien—it goes further, and includes a turn of events that raises the stakes and reveals that the world of the series will admit many more shades of gray than the tidy Light/Shadow duality of Middle-Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, the plot involves the search for The Chosen One—in the lore of the series, the long-prophesied person called the Dragon Reborn, who alone can defeat the Dark One. This, too, is familiar ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13654506","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the series introduces a twist, and introduces it early: The Dragon Reborn may be one of four people in the remote village of Two Rivers. There is Rand (Josha Stradowski), a humble farmboy; Egwene (Madeleine Madden), a young woman recently admitted to the ranks of the village’s matriarchy; Perrin (Marcus Rutherford), a hulking young blacksmith; and Mat (Barney Harris), a charming wastrel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that “Reborn” business? Turns out the clash between Dragon and Dark One has happened before, many times, and will continue to happen. (\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Wheel\u003c/strong> of Time\u003c/em>, geddit?) But another twist: The last time the Dragon faced the Dark One, he blew it, and the world was broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempting to patch things up: An elite organization of women magic-users called the Aes Sedai. We first meet Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) and her warder, the taciturn Lan (Daniel Henney), who are searching for the Dragon Reborn before he or she can be found by the Dark One, his servants, or his army of Trollocs (think Orcs with horns and goat-feet).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again and again, the series executes familiar story beats and fantasy tropes with a contemporary sensibility that would likely cause old Professor Tolkien to spill his Twinings all over his tweed waistcoast. A matter-of-factly diverse approach to casting, storylines that foreground women, the existence of same-sex couples, and it all taking place in a moral universe where characters make choices that aren’t dictated by their noble blood, or the relative swarthiness of their skin.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/11ZozKfRqvA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/11ZozKfRqvA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In the six episodes made available to the press (the first season consists of eight episodes, and a Season 2 has already been picked up), the central storyline splits off into several threads, giving each of our main characters room to breathe, and their situations time to complicate, in ways that feel necessary and intriguing—without the sense of narrative bloat the bogs down so many streaming series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dialogue mostly avoids the fantasy-genre trap of sounding falsely stiff and heightened, as if the screenwriter entered Beowulf into Google Translate; neither does it sound too jarringly contemporary (i.e., “Word comes from the North! We are to just like chill here for the nonce!”)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What do you call a scaled-down epic?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You won’t need to have read the sprawling, 14-volume fantasy saga to know instinctively that what you’re seeing on the Amazon series only skims its surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feints are made to indicate the scope of Jordan’s world, and its history—a bit of dialogue here, a snippet of song there. Characters gets a moment or two to invoke their homeland, or their ancestry. But the ultimate effect is to cause the world underpinning the events depicted—the world that always seems to hover just offscreen—to insist upon itself, and always compete for our attention with the story we’re watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13894806","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s not that the show looks cheap, by any means. There are plenty of breathtaking vistas and vibrant, richly textured costumes and elaborate sets. It’s just that it can’t help but feel scaled down, reduced, distilled, made for television. Something about the quality of light in certain scenes seems a bit too sharp, too clean, for a world lit only by sun and fire. The sinister Children of the Light, for example, wear cloaks so blindingly and pristinely white, even as they trudge through muddy forests, that you can’t help wondering about their OxyClean budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the world of \u003cem>The Wheel of Time \u003c/em>doesn’t come off as satisfyingly grimy and lived-in as the world of other fantasy series, and it never quite musters the sweep and scope of its older brothers—Jackson’s \u003cem>Lord of the Rings\u003c/em>, HBO’s \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>—it does manage to tell its story in a way that’s compelling, unique and, frequently, surprising, full of narrative twists and character turns that even the most jaded fantasy reader might not see coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know Petra had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/01/06/168627939/for-wheel-of-time-fans-the-last-battle-is-at-hand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deep affection for the book series\u003c/a> (and also strong caveats, because: Petra). I don’t know what her ultimate of the opinion of the show might have been, but I do know this: The last time we talked, she was just beginning to watch the Amazon show, so I braced myself to spend a few days reading a series of her stream-of-consciousness, expletive-studded texts about it, full of joy and outrage, effusive praise and bones to pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m still waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Amazon+reinvents+%27The+Wheel+of+Time%27+for+the+small+screen%2C+with+surprising+turns&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13906387/amazon-reinvents-the-wheel-of-time-for-the-small-screen-with-surprising-turns","authors":["byline_arts_13906387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2210"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13906388","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13900846":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13900846","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13900846","score":null,"sort":[1628279144000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whats-making-us-happy-a-tv-guide-for-your-weekend-watching","title":"What's Making Us Happy: A TV Guide For Your Weekend Watching","publishDate":1628279144,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What’s Making Us Happy: A TV Guide For Your Weekend Watching | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The second week of the Olympics had us \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/05/1024994162/equestrian-dressage-composer-music-dancing-charlotte-dujardin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watching horses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/03/1024169459/greece-olympic-synchronized-swimming-team-out-positive-covid-tests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">swimmers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/04/1024774505/olympic-runners-are-fast-on-tokyos-fast-track-theyre-shattering-world-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">runners,\u003c/a> and we wouldn’t trade them for anything. But as we head into \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-the-tokyo-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the final weekend of all that,\u003c/a> we’ve got plenty of other entertainment on tap for the first weekend of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What to watch\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Making The Cut,\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B096MZ26GY/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Amazon Prime\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHmdfVjAYnQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em> without the stuff you fast forward through. This is much more a show about design than simply assembly. The designers, most of whom already have their own clothing lines, get teams of seamstresses to do the actual assembling. But the designers never get to meet their teams and have to leave incredibly detailed instructions on how to finish their garments overnight. When they come back into the workroom the next day, they see how well they’ve communicated their intent. It’s a very clever way of showcasing the designers’ management skills or lack of the same. \u003cem>— Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Paramount+\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SbGFdhVwZo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All Stars\u003c/em> is always fun because people are coming back with a knowledge of having been a part of it and having grown. When the cast for season six of \u003cem>All Stars\u003c/em> was announced, there were a lot of mixed reactions. Half the cast is true fan favorites and the other half are former contestants that people were less aware off. But after some really rough seasons from the franchise, it’s really good to have the show kind of find a good footing again. There hasn’t been a clear frontrunner this season, which has been fun. I’m enjoying it instead of being frustrated by it.\u003cem> — \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RunDMR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Daisy Rosario\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Twilight Saga,\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/70206632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Netflix\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR9_rDSxxFg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to talk about \u003cem>Twilight Breaking Dawn: Part 2\u003c/em>. I’m not necessarily interested in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/10/06/446351732/after-10-years-of-bella-and-edward-twilight-reimagined-brings-a-twist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bella and Edward,\u003c/a> but the rest of the world, I’m really interested in. Watching this movie, I realized the one thing I love about the \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> movies is the werewolves. I love the werewolves. I don’t think there’s enough of them. I think they could be a franchise on their own. In \u003cem>Breaking Dawn: Part 2,\u003c/em> they started building out the world of all these other vampires in Egypt, Japan and other parts of the globe. Sitting there, I was just like, “Man, this would make a great series.” I wish somebody would come back and make a gritty reboot of just the werewolves, just the world-building of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>. —\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OhitsBIGRON\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Ronald Young Jr.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Reservation Dogs,\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.hulu.com/series/reservation-dogs-5a310c23-e2db-4c9f-a66c-27c2fee43d92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Hulu on FX\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHewFAkrWU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting Monday, you’ll be able to check out the new comedy series \u003ca href=\"https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/reservation-dogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Reservation Dogs \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>on Hulu\u003c/a> in the FX section. It’s a terrific show about a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/10/06/446351732/after-10-years-of-bella-and-edward-twilight-reimagined-brings-a-twist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indigenous kids in Oklahoma,\u003c/a> and I think you’ll be utterly charmed by its laid-back, super-chill vibe. We’ll also be talking about it on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510282/pop-culture-happy-hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the podcast\u003c/a> soon. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Untold,\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81026439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Netflix\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3IgmCgeMNo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting on Tuesday, Netflix will be releasing installments of the sports documentary series \u003cstrong>\u003cem>Untold\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, the first of which is called \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2021/08/04/netflix-trailer-malice-at-the-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Malice at the Palace”\u003c/a> and retells the tale of the 2004 NBA brawl in Detroit when Pacers player Metta World Peace, then known as Ron Artest, went into the stands and brawled with a spectator after being pelted with garbage by a Pistons “fan.” It’s less that this documentary uncovers massive new facts than it tries to contextualize that night and the consequences that came to the players—and the lack of consequences that came to pass for most of the fans. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What to listen to\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/household-faces-with-john-ross-bowie/id1578937155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Household Faces\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fine comic actor John Ross Bowie has a new podcast coming out on August 10 called \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/household-faces-with-john-ross-bowie/id1578937155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Household Faces\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in which he interviews character actors (of which he is one). I haven’t heard it yet, but I’ve already subscribed. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gene and Roger, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theringer.com/gene-and-roger-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>The Ringer\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is an eight-part podcast looking at how \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/21/nyregion/gene-siskel-half-of-a-famed-movie-review-team-dies-at-53.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gene Siskel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/movies/roger-ebert-film-critic-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roger Ebert\u003c/a> really transformed and popularized film criticism. There’s lots of investigation into their relationship. It’s the product of \u003ca href=\"https://www.brianraftery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Raftery,\u003c/a> the same guy who wrote the book \u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Best-Movie-Year-Ever/Brian-Raftery/9781501175404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Best. Movie. Year. Ever.,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> about the films of 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the podcast, Raftery looks at the ways studios changed their marketing and how thumbs up, thumbs down became this kind of nationally recognized bellwether of a film’s commercial prospects. Whether or not you are old enough to remember seeing Siskel and Ebert on television, this is a fascinating series. —\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ctklimek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Chris Klimek\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What%27s+Making+Us+Happy%3A+A+Guide+For+Your+Weekend+Watching%2C+Listening+And+Reading&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Why 'Reservation Dogs' and 'Untold' deserve your attention, along with new seasons of 'Making the Cut' and 'Drag Race All Stars'.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705008004,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":828},"headData":{"title":"What's Making Us Happy: A TV Guide For Your Weekend Watching | KQED","description":"Why 'Reservation Dogs' and 'Untold' deserve your attention, along with new seasons of 'Making the Cut' and 'Drag Race All Stars'.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"What's Making Us Happy: A TV Guide For Your Weekend Watching","datePublished":"2021-08-06T19:45:44.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:20:04.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Ali Goldstein","nprByline":"Chris Klimek","nprImageAgency":"Ali Goldstein/Amazon Prime Video","nprStoryId":"1025319322","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1025319322&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025319322/rupaul-drag-race-twilight-gene-and-roger?ft=nprml&f=1025319322","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:15:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:15:48 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:16:02 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13900846/whats-making-us-happy-a-tv-guide-for-your-weekend-watching","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The second week of the Olympics had us \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/05/1024994162/equestrian-dressage-composer-music-dancing-charlotte-dujardin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watching horses\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/03/1024169459/greece-olympic-synchronized-swimming-team-out-positive-covid-tests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">swimmers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/04/1024774505/olympic-runners-are-fast-on-tokyos-fast-track-theyre-shattering-world-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">runners,\u003c/a> and we wouldn’t trade them for anything. But as we head into \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-the-tokyo-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the final weekend of all that,\u003c/a> we’ve got plenty of other entertainment on tap for the first weekend of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What to watch\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Making The Cut,\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B096MZ26GY/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Amazon Prime\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wHmdfVjAYnQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wHmdfVjAYnQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This is \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em> without the stuff you fast forward through. This is much more a show about design than simply assembly. The designers, most of whom already have their own clothing lines, get teams of seamstresses to do the actual assembling. But the designers never get to meet their teams and have to leave incredibly detailed instructions on how to finish their garments overnight. When they come back into the workroom the next day, they see how well they’ve communicated their intent. It’s a very clever way of showcasing the designers’ management skills or lack of the same. \u003cem>— Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Paramount+\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/5SbGFdhVwZo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/5SbGFdhVwZo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>All Stars\u003c/em> is always fun because people are coming back with a knowledge of having been a part of it and having grown. When the cast for season six of \u003cem>All Stars\u003c/em> was announced, there were a lot of mixed reactions. Half the cast is true fan favorites and the other half are former contestants that people were less aware off. But after some really rough seasons from the franchise, it’s really good to have the show kind of find a good footing again. There hasn’t been a clear frontrunner this season, which has been fun. I’m enjoying it instead of being frustrated by it.\u003cem> — \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RunDMR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Daisy Rosario\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Twilight Saga,\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/70206632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Netflix\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/cR9_rDSxxFg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/cR9_rDSxxFg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>I want to talk about \u003cem>Twilight Breaking Dawn: Part 2\u003c/em>. I’m not necessarily interested in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/10/06/446351732/after-10-years-of-bella-and-edward-twilight-reimagined-brings-a-twist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bella and Edward,\u003c/a> but the rest of the world, I’m really interested in. Watching this movie, I realized the one thing I love about the \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> movies is the werewolves. I love the werewolves. I don’t think there’s enough of them. I think they could be a franchise on their own. In \u003cem>Breaking Dawn: Part 2,\u003c/em> they started building out the world of all these other vampires in Egypt, Japan and other parts of the globe. Sitting there, I was just like, “Man, this would make a great series.” I wish somebody would come back and make a gritty reboot of just the werewolves, just the world-building of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>. —\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OhitsBIGRON\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Ronald Young Jr.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Reservation Dogs,\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.hulu.com/series/reservation-dogs-5a310c23-e2db-4c9f-a66c-27c2fee43d92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Hulu on FX\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/RoHewFAkrWU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/RoHewFAkrWU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Starting Monday, you’ll be able to check out the new comedy series \u003ca href=\"https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/reservation-dogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Reservation Dogs \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>on Hulu\u003c/a> in the FX section. It’s a terrific show about a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/10/06/446351732/after-10-years-of-bella-and-edward-twilight-reimagined-brings-a-twist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indigenous kids in Oklahoma,\u003c/a> and I think you’ll be utterly charmed by its laid-back, super-chill vibe. We’ll also be talking about it on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510282/pop-culture-happy-hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the podcast\u003c/a> soon. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Untold,\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81026439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Netflix\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/j3IgmCgeMNo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/j3IgmCgeMNo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Starting on Tuesday, Netflix will be releasing installments of the sports documentary series \u003cstrong>\u003cem>Untold\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, the first of which is called \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2021/08/04/netflix-trailer-malice-at-the-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Malice at the Palace”\u003c/a> and retells the tale of the 2004 NBA brawl in Detroit when Pacers player Metta World Peace, then known as Ron Artest, went into the stands and brawled with a spectator after being pelted with garbage by a Pistons “fan.” It’s less that this documentary uncovers massive new facts than it tries to contextualize that night and the consequences that came to the players—and the lack of consequences that came to pass for most of the fans. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What to listen to\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/household-faces-with-john-ross-bowie/id1578937155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Household Faces\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fine comic actor John Ross Bowie has a new podcast coming out on August 10 called \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/household-faces-with-john-ross-bowie/id1578937155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Household Faces\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in which he interviews character actors (of which he is one). I haven’t heard it yet, but I’ve already subscribed. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gene and Roger, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theringer.com/gene-and-roger-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>The Ringer\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is an eight-part podcast looking at how \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/21/nyregion/gene-siskel-half-of-a-famed-movie-review-team-dies-at-53.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gene Siskel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/movies/roger-ebert-film-critic-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roger Ebert\u003c/a> really transformed and popularized film criticism. There’s lots of investigation into their relationship. It’s the product of \u003ca href=\"https://www.brianraftery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Raftery,\u003c/a> the same guy who wrote the book \u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Best-Movie-Year-Ever/Brian-Raftery/9781501175404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Best. Movie. Year. Ever.,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> about the films of 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the podcast, Raftery looks at the ways studios changed their marketing and how thumbs up, thumbs down became this kind of nationally recognized bellwether of a film’s commercial prospects. Whether or not you are old enough to remember seeing Siskel and Ebert on television, this is a fascinating series. —\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ctklimek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Chris Klimek\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What%27s+Making+Us+Happy%3A+A+Guide+For+Your+Weekend+Watching%2C+Listening+And+Reading&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13900846/whats-making-us-happy-a-tv-guide-for-your-weekend-watching","authors":["byline_arts_13900846"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2210","arts_8237","arts_5234","arts_3324"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13900847","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13898906":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13898906","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13898906","score":null,"sort":[1623889181000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dozens-of-bay-area-arts-social-justice-groups-get-huge-donations-from-mackenzie-scott","title":"Dozens of Bay Area Arts, Social Justice Groups Get Huge Donations From MacKenzie Scott","publishDate":1623889181,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Dozens of Bay Area Arts, Social Justice Groups Get Huge Donations From MacKenzie Scott | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated June 23 to include a correction. See below. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, extremely rich human MacKenzie Scott leaned into her fairly new role as a philanthropic superhero by giving away $2.7 billion to 286 worthy organizations—many of them in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13882749']Scott, who was born and raised in San Francisco, committed to donating at least half of her wealth after she was awarded a 4% stake in Amazon during her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos. The novelist, who was married to the Amazon founder for 25 years, gave almost $6 billion to nonprofits in 2020 as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Scott made charitable contributions to a huge variety of Bay Area organizations: social justice collectives, healthcare providers, academic institutions and arts groups. In a \u003ca href=\"https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/seeding-by-ceding-ea6de642bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Medium\u003c/em> blog\u003c/a> posted on Tuesday, Scott expressed her belief that “social structures that inflate wealth present obstacles to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Arts and cultural institutions can strengthen communities by transforming spaces, fostering empathy, reflecting community identity, advancing economic mobility, improving academic outcomes, lowering crime rates, and improving mental health, so we evaluated smaller arts organizations creating these benefits with artists and audiences from culturally rich regions and identity groups that donors often overlook.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://womensaudiomission.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women’s Audio Mission\u003c/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women and girls in music production, was one of many local groups to receive a million dollars. Founder and executive director Terri Winston described the biggest single donation in the organization’s history as “transformational.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this moment in our country, it is incredibly important to include and amplify the voices of women, girls and gender-expansive folks, especially in the production of the music and messages in the soundtrack of our lives,” Winston wrote in a press release, adding that the money will support the organization’s expansion into Los Angeles and Nashville. “[Scott’s] investment in WAM will allow us to expand nationally to other music hubs and bring our award-winning training and mentoring programs to thousands of women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-16-at-4.32.53-PM-800x537.png\" alt=\"MacKenzie Scott: The face of a human who's making her ex-husband look terrible in public. (And, you know, helping people...)\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MacKenzie Scott, a human who’s making her ex-husband look terrible in public. (And, you know, helping people…) \u003ccite>(Facebook/ @Mackenzie.Scott2020)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loscenzontles.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy\u003c/a> in Richmond was another organization that received a million dollar donation. Academy president Marco Gonzales said, “This remarkable gift will help stabilize our organization and hopefully attract additional investment that supports our mission and our community.” The Academy is a Latino-led, artist-driven, nonprofit dedicated to Mexican American community and arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long list of Bay Area organizations that received donations from MacKenzie Scott this week is as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://linesballet.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alonzo King Lines Ballet\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://asianpacificfund.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asian Pacific Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://caamedia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Asian American Media\u003c/a> (CAAM)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese For Affirmative Action\u003c/a> (CAASF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.donorschoose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donors Choose\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.idinsight.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ID Insight\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kiva.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiva\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://magicbussf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magic Bus SF\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ngosource.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NGO Source\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://recesscollective.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recess Collective\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.roomtoread.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Room to Read\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfcommunityhealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Community Health Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://meet.techsoup.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TechSoup Global\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensaudiomission.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women’s Audio Mission\u003c/a> (WAM)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.womensfundingnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women’s Funding Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> (YBCA)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://youthspeaks.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth Speaks\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Menlo Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.drkfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://aapip.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy\u003c/a> (AAPIP)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalpower.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center For Cultural Power\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commoncounsel.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common Counsel Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonfuture.co/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.compasspoint.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CompassPoint Non-Profit Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebcf.org/community/ebfa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Fund For Artists\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://faithinaction.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faith in Action\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenlining Institute\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transformativetechnologies.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute For Transformative Technologies\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalequityproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Equity Project\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nfg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neighborhood Funders Group\u003c/a> (NFG)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.raceforward.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Race Forward\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://riseuptogether.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rise Up\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://rockwoodleadership.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rockwood Leadership Institute\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://solidairenetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solidaire Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.volunteermatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volunteer Match\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://yr.media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth Radio\u003c/a> (YR Media)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richmond\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loscenzontles.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://rysecenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RYSE Youth Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>No word yet on whether his ex-wife’s commitment to being awesome has had any effect on Jeff Bezos’ commitment to being a supervillain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction\u003c/strong>: A previous version of this article incorrectly listed Kepler’s Literary Foundation in Menlo Park as a recipient of these funds. The organization receiving the funds is Kepler, based in Rwanda. KQED regrets the error.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Amazon billionaire just gave $2.7 billion to Women's Audio Mission, Los Cenzontles and numerous other local organizations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705008202,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":658},"headData":{"title":"Dozens of Bay Area Arts, Social Justice Groups Get Huge Donations From MacKenzie Scott | KQED","description":"The Amazon billionaire just gave $2.7 billion to Women's Audio Mission, Los Cenzontles and numerous other local organizations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Dozens of Bay Area Arts, Social Justice Groups Get Huge Donations From MacKenzie Scott","datePublished":"2021-06-17T00:19:41.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:23:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13898906/dozens-of-bay-area-arts-social-justice-groups-get-huge-donations-from-mackenzie-scott","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated June 23 to include a correction. See below. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, extremely rich human MacKenzie Scott leaned into her fairly new role as a philanthropic superhero by giving away $2.7 billion to 286 worthy organizations—many of them in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13882749","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Scott, who was born and raised in San Francisco, committed to donating at least half of her wealth after she was awarded a 4% stake in Amazon during her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos. The novelist, who was married to the Amazon founder for 25 years, gave almost $6 billion to nonprofits in 2020 as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Scott made charitable contributions to a huge variety of Bay Area organizations: social justice collectives, healthcare providers, academic institutions and arts groups. In a \u003ca href=\"https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/seeding-by-ceding-ea6de642bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Medium\u003c/em> blog\u003c/a> posted on Tuesday, Scott expressed her belief that “social structures that inflate wealth present obstacles to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also noted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Arts and cultural institutions can strengthen communities by transforming spaces, fostering empathy, reflecting community identity, advancing economic mobility, improving academic outcomes, lowering crime rates, and improving mental health, so we evaluated smaller arts organizations creating these benefits with artists and audiences from culturally rich regions and identity groups that donors often overlook.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://womensaudiomission.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women’s Audio Mission\u003c/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women and girls in music production, was one of many local groups to receive a million dollars. Founder and executive director Terri Winston described the biggest single donation in the organization’s history as “transformational.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this moment in our country, it is incredibly important to include and amplify the voices of women, girls and gender-expansive folks, especially in the production of the music and messages in the soundtrack of our lives,” Winston wrote in a press release, adding that the money will support the organization’s expansion into Los Angeles and Nashville. “[Scott’s] investment in WAM will allow us to expand nationally to other music hubs and bring our award-winning training and mentoring programs to thousands of women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-16-at-4.32.53-PM-800x537.png\" alt=\"MacKenzie Scott: The face of a human who's making her ex-husband look terrible in public. (And, you know, helping people...)\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MacKenzie Scott, a human who’s making her ex-husband look terrible in public. (And, you know, helping people…) \u003ccite>(Facebook/ @Mackenzie.Scott2020)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loscenzontles.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy\u003c/a> in Richmond was another organization that received a million dollar donation. Academy president Marco Gonzales said, “This remarkable gift will help stabilize our organization and hopefully attract additional investment that supports our mission and our community.” The Academy is a Latino-led, artist-driven, nonprofit dedicated to Mexican American community and arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long list of Bay Area organizations that received donations from MacKenzie Scott this week is as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://linesballet.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alonzo King Lines Ballet\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://asianpacificfund.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asian Pacific Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://caamedia.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Asian American Media\u003c/a> (CAAM)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese For Affirmative Action\u003c/a> (CAASF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.donorschoose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donors Choose\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.idinsight.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ID Insight\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kiva.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiva\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://magicbussf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magic Bus SF\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ngosource.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NGO Source\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://recesscollective.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recess Collective\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.roomtoread.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Room to Read\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sfcommunityhealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SF Community Health Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://meet.techsoup.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TechSoup Global\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensaudiomission.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women’s Audio Mission\u003c/a> (WAM)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.womensfundingnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women’s Funding Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> (YBCA)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://youthspeaks.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth Speaks\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Menlo Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.drkfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://aapip.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy\u003c/a> (AAPIP)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.culturalpower.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center For Cultural Power\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commoncounsel.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common Counsel Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonfuture.co/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.compasspoint.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CompassPoint Non-Profit Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebcf.org/community/ebfa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Fund For Artists\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://faithinaction.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faith in Action\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenlining Institute\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transformativetechnologies.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute For Transformative Technologies\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalequityproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Equity Project\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nfg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neighborhood Funders Group\u003c/a> (NFG)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.raceforward.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Race Forward\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://riseuptogether.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rise Up\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://rockwoodleadership.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rockwood Leadership Institute\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://solidairenetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solidaire Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.volunteermatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volunteer Match\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://yr.media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth Radio\u003c/a> (YR Media)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richmond\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.loscenzontles.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://rysecenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RYSE Youth Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>No word yet on whether his ex-wife’s commitment to being awesome has had any effect on Jeff Bezos’ commitment to being a supervillain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction\u003c/strong>: A previous version of this article incorrectly listed Kepler’s Literary Foundation in Menlo Park as a recipient of these funds. The organization receiving the funds is Kepler, based in Rwanda. KQED regrets the error.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13898906/dozens-of-bay-area-arts-social-justice-groups-get-huge-donations-from-mackenzie-scott","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_2210","arts_1331","arts_9034"],"featImg":"arts_13831112","label":"arts"},"arts_13895452":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13895452","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13895452","score":null,"sort":[1617925943000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"amazons-them-is-drowning-in-terror-trauma-and-too-many-ideas","title":"Amazon's 'Them' is Drowning in Terror, Trauma and Too Many Ideas","publishDate":1617925943,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Amazon’s ‘Them’ is Drowning in Terror, Trauma and Too Many Ideas | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Lately, everyone’s talking about trauma. Trauma in news form, trauma in essay form, trauma in Twitter thread form. In pop culture, creators are mining the depths of trauma both personal and historical in a variety of ways—documenting the testimonials of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/21/969425823/allen-v-farrow-digs-deep-into-a-tale-of-celebrity-power-and-silence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real-life victims\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876348924/in-on-the-record-black-women-s-voices-get-a-needed-spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shocking detail\u003c/a>; weaving harrowing experiences into \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/bojack-horseman-season-5-lisa-hanawalt-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fictional characters’ narratives\u003c/a>. In those fictional characterizations sometimes, the trauma is merely a plot point; at other times, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/958526533/the-agony-and-subversion-of-the-promising-young-woman-ending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>the point\u003c/a>, or rather, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/07/871472968/i-may-destroy-you-is-hbo-s-new-unforgettable-unmissable-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrestling with and processing of it\u003c/a> is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Amazon series \u003cem>Them\u003c/em>, created by Little Marvin (Lena Waithe is one of the executive producers), has been billed as an anthology that “explores terror in America.” Terror, trauma … is there much difference between the two? Certainly not in this case, as the first season centers the Emorys, a Black family moving from rural North Carolina to the suburbs of East Compton, Calif., in 1953, back when East Compton was virtually all white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you hadn’t already seen the much-discussed trailer, it would be easy enough to guess what said terror might entail based on that short description alone: Good ol’, mid-20th century American racism. (With a brief detour to the 19th century in a later episode.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More specifically, the terror/trauma depicted in \u003cem>Them \u003c/em>includes, but is not limited to: White characters spewing the N-word at Black people; white characters graphically assaulting, torturing, and (occasionally) murdering Black people; a creepy minstrel character rendered in blackface; filicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Of course\u003c/em>, the Emorys’ new neighbors in this cookie-cutter Pleasantville are the opposite of welcoming. Betty (Alison Pill)—a dissatisfied housewife who absolutely would have been front and center of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8rdtq-KBE#t=01m10s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">angry white mob\u003c/a> that harassed the Little Rock Nine outside Central High School in Arkansas—leads the charge, rounding up the rest of the community to coordinate targeted attacks on the new family. Adding to these immediate threats is the fact that the Emorys—Lucky (Deborah Ayorinde), Henry (Ashley Thomas) and their daughters Ruby Lee (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Gracie Jean (Melody Hurd)—are already entering into this new environment carrying their own set of deeply unsettling emotional baggage. Because \u003cem>of course\u003c/em>; they are Black in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL3Jz8fDgFI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Them\u003c/em> features an impressive array of filmmaking talent across 10 episodes, including Janicza Bravo (who’s directed, among other things, the excellent “Juneteenth” episode of \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>) and notable horror director Ti West (\u003cem>The Innkeepers\u003c/em>). The performances are invigorating, particularly Ayorinde and Thomas, who are tasked with excavating the pain that comes from wounds both generational and directly personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But baked into this production is the pesky, exhausting problem of “doing too much.” This is evident in the glut of needle-drops, many of them anachronistic, which clutter the storytelling and club the viewer over the head with their obviousness. When Lucky responds to one of Betty’s racist tirades by smacking her clear across the face (right after she politely asks little Gracie to hold her purse), James Brown’s electrifying “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istJXUJJP0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Payback\u003c/a>” kicks in for a hot second; yet the punctuation feels less like a triumphant nod to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCc99Gh-IEM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foxy Brown\u003c/a> than it does a crass, intentional play for Black Twitter meme status. There are so many stylish music cues like this that early on it begins to seem as if the writers have relied on the likes of Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, and Isaac Hayes to do all of the heavy lifting to cover up the thin story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Them \u003c/em>is also drowning in terror and trauma, and little else. And that trauma and terror are so horrific, several episodes begin with content warnings of graphic violence. I’m not one who believes every piece of art depicting awful events needs such disclosure, but in this case, the producers made the correct choice; there are scenes involving Black pain and suffering so mortifying, I can imagine many viewers not being able to finish watching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attention to the details of this suffering is chilling not necessarily because of what is depicted—there’s a time and place for such explicitness in the right creative hands—but because it’s depicted in service of a cynical mode of storytelling. Each of the Emorys are haunted by a demon corresponding to their individual life experiences, and through these spirits, one can see the makings of a potentially more interesting character study than what we’re given—a story using supernatural elements to tap into trauma within Black families with the richness and sharpness of a movie like Kasi Lemmons’ \u003cem>Eve’s Bayou\u003c/em> or, more recently, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY0QJhlXjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>His House\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the captivating haunted house tale about a South Sudanese refugee couple living in the U.K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead it borrows from the playbook of last year’s unwieldly and exploitative \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913246254/what-exactly-is-antebellum-trying-to-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Antebellum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and shows like \u003cem>Westworld \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Lovecraft Country, \u003c/em>which favor slick convolution over coherent narrative choices\u003cem>. \u003c/em>There are So! Many! Ideas! And! Tones! being mashed up here, and to little effect. At one point the show diverts to a baffling hostage-in-a-bunker plotline for reasons that remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the full trailer for \u003cem>Them \u003c/em>dropped last month, the Twitter timeline was alit with commentary about how the show’s themes and aesthetic seemed to be \u003ca href=\"http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2021/3/23/us-against-them-amazon-series-roasted-as-ripoff-of-jordan-pe-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biting from Jordan Peele\u003c/a>. Superficial similarities aside—the titles \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNCmb-4oXJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Us\u003c/em>\u003c/a> vs. \u003cem>Them\u003c/em>; the casting of Shahadi Wright Joseph in both projects—such conclusions gloss over a few realities, such as the fact that Peele himself has always been vocal about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/article/get-out-oral-history-jordan-peele.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many films that inspired \u003cem>his own\u003c/em> work\u003c/a>. They also seem to misunderstand, or ignore, how genres fundamentally build upon and play with familiar elements and tropes. There’s as much standard horror stuff of the Stephen King variety in \u003cem>Them\u003c/em> as there is Peele’s influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, then, has less to do with parallels to \u003cem>Get Out \u003c/em>than the show’s inability to establish a reason to exist beyond the thesis of “Racism is terrorism, and it’s everywhere; in our entertainment, schools, workspaces, churches, homes.” It’s a fair starting point for telling a story (or teaching basic history), but it can’t be the \u003cem>only \u003c/em>point. By all means, wrestle with the real-life terrors that can come with Black homeownership, Black parenting, white women’s complicity in upholding racist infrastructure, and so on. But also bring more to the narrative in the way of inventive scares, characterization, or even, where appropriate, some levity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Them\u003c/em> suffers from the same predicament that has arisen in the wake of Black people becoming hashtags in death—the public knows far more about their last moments on Earth than all the moments that made up their life before. Viewers who make it through all 10 episodes will know plenty about how the Emorys have suffered and been traumatized, but they won’t come away with much else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Them \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>debuts on Amazon Prime on Friday, April 9.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Them%27%3A+The+Trauma%2C+The+Trauma&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Amazon's new anthology series, executive produced by Lena Waithe, unrelentingly explores \"terror in America.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019198,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":1210},"headData":{"title":"Amazon's 'Them' is Drowning in Terror, Trauma and Too Many Ideas | KQED","description":"Amazon's new anthology series, executive produced by Lena Waithe, unrelentingly explores "terror in America."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Amazon's 'Them' is Drowning in Terror, Trauma and Too Many Ideas","datePublished":"2021-04-08T23:52:23.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:26:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Courtesy of Amazon Prime Video","nprByline":"Aisha Harris","nprImageAgency":"Courtesy of Amazon Prime Video","nprStoryId":"984614649","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=984614649&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/984614649/them-the-trauma-the-trauma?ft=nprml&f=984614649","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:38:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:01:01 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:38:01 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13895452/amazons-them-is-drowning-in-terror-trauma-and-too-many-ideas","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lately, everyone’s talking about trauma. Trauma in news form, trauma in essay form, trauma in Twitter thread form. In pop culture, creators are mining the depths of trauma both personal and historical in a variety of ways—documenting the testimonials of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/21/969425823/allen-v-farrow-digs-deep-into-a-tale-of-celebrity-power-and-silence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real-life victims\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876348924/in-on-the-record-black-women-s-voices-get-a-needed-spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shocking detail\u003c/a>; weaving harrowing experiences into \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/bojack-horseman-season-5-lisa-hanawalt-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fictional characters’ narratives\u003c/a>. In those fictional characterizations sometimes, the trauma is merely a plot point; at other times, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/958526533/the-agony-and-subversion-of-the-promising-young-woman-ending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>the point\u003c/a>, or rather, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/07/871472968/i-may-destroy-you-is-hbo-s-new-unforgettable-unmissable-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrestling with and processing of it\u003c/a> is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Amazon series \u003cem>Them\u003c/em>, created by Little Marvin (Lena Waithe is one of the executive producers), has been billed as an anthology that “explores terror in America.” Terror, trauma … is there much difference between the two? Certainly not in this case, as the first season centers the Emorys, a Black family moving from rural North Carolina to the suburbs of East Compton, Calif., in 1953, back when East Compton was virtually all white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you hadn’t already seen the much-discussed trailer, it would be easy enough to guess what said terror might entail based on that short description alone: Good ol’, mid-20th century American racism. (With a brief detour to the 19th century in a later episode.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More specifically, the terror/trauma depicted in \u003cem>Them \u003c/em>includes, but is not limited to: White characters spewing the N-word at Black people; white characters graphically assaulting, torturing, and (occasionally) murdering Black people; a creepy minstrel character rendered in blackface; filicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Of course\u003c/em>, the Emorys’ new neighbors in this cookie-cutter Pleasantville are the opposite of welcoming. Betty (Alison Pill)—a dissatisfied housewife who absolutely would have been front and center of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8rdtq-KBE#t=01m10s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">angry white mob\u003c/a> that harassed the Little Rock Nine outside Central High School in Arkansas—leads the charge, rounding up the rest of the community to coordinate targeted attacks on the new family. Adding to these immediate threats is the fact that the Emorys—Lucky (Deborah Ayorinde), Henry (Ashley Thomas) and their daughters Ruby Lee (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Gracie Jean (Melody Hurd)—are already entering into this new environment carrying their own set of deeply unsettling emotional baggage. Because \u003cem>of course\u003c/em>; they are Black in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/WL3Jz8fDgFI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/WL3Jz8fDgFI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Them\u003c/em> features an impressive array of filmmaking talent across 10 episodes, including Janicza Bravo (who’s directed, among other things, the excellent “Juneteenth” episode of \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>) and notable horror director Ti West (\u003cem>The Innkeepers\u003c/em>). The performances are invigorating, particularly Ayorinde and Thomas, who are tasked with excavating the pain that comes from wounds both generational and directly personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But baked into this production is the pesky, exhausting problem of “doing too much.” This is evident in the glut of needle-drops, many of them anachronistic, which clutter the storytelling and club the viewer over the head with their obviousness. When Lucky responds to one of Betty’s racist tirades by smacking her clear across the face (right after she politely asks little Gracie to hold her purse), James Brown’s electrifying “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istJXUJJP0g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Payback\u003c/a>” kicks in for a hot second; yet the punctuation feels less like a triumphant nod to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCc99Gh-IEM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foxy Brown\u003c/a> than it does a crass, intentional play for Black Twitter meme status. There are so many stylish music cues like this that early on it begins to seem as if the writers have relied on the likes of Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, and Isaac Hayes to do all of the heavy lifting to cover up the thin story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Them \u003c/em>is also drowning in terror and trauma, and little else. And that trauma and terror are so horrific, several episodes begin with content warnings of graphic violence. I’m not one who believes every piece of art depicting awful events needs such disclosure, but in this case, the producers made the correct choice; there are scenes involving Black pain and suffering so mortifying, I can imagine many viewers not being able to finish watching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attention to the details of this suffering is chilling not necessarily because of what is depicted—there’s a time and place for such explicitness in the right creative hands—but because it’s depicted in service of a cynical mode of storytelling. Each of the Emorys are haunted by a demon corresponding to their individual life experiences, and through these spirits, one can see the makings of a potentially more interesting character study than what we’re given—a story using supernatural elements to tap into trauma within Black families with the richness and sharpness of a movie like Kasi Lemmons’ \u003cem>Eve’s Bayou\u003c/em> or, more recently, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY0QJhlXjc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>His House\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the captivating haunted house tale about a South Sudanese refugee couple living in the U.K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead it borrows from the playbook of last year’s unwieldly and exploitative \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913246254/what-exactly-is-antebellum-trying-to-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Antebellum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and shows like \u003cem>Westworld \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Lovecraft Country, \u003c/em>which favor slick convolution over coherent narrative choices\u003cem>. \u003c/em>There are So! Many! Ideas! And! Tones! being mashed up here, and to little effect. At one point the show diverts to a baffling hostage-in-a-bunker plotline for reasons that remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the full trailer for \u003cem>Them \u003c/em>dropped last month, the Twitter timeline was alit with commentary about how the show’s themes and aesthetic seemed to be \u003ca href=\"http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2021/3/23/us-against-them-amazon-series-roasted-as-ripoff-of-jordan-pe-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biting from Jordan Peele\u003c/a>. Superficial similarities aside—the titles \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNCmb-4oXJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Us\u003c/em>\u003c/a> vs. \u003cem>Them\u003c/em>; the casting of Shahadi Wright Joseph in both projects—such conclusions gloss over a few realities, such as the fact that Peele himself has always been vocal about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/article/get-out-oral-history-jordan-peele.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many films that inspired \u003cem>his own\u003c/em> work\u003c/a>. They also seem to misunderstand, or ignore, how genres fundamentally build upon and play with familiar elements and tropes. There’s as much standard horror stuff of the Stephen King variety in \u003cem>Them\u003c/em> as there is Peele’s influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, then, has less to do with parallels to \u003cem>Get Out \u003c/em>than the show’s inability to establish a reason to exist beyond the thesis of “Racism is terrorism, and it’s everywhere; in our entertainment, schools, workspaces, churches, homes.” It’s a fair starting point for telling a story (or teaching basic history), but it can’t be the \u003cem>only \u003c/em>point. By all means, wrestle with the real-life terrors that can come with Black homeownership, Black parenting, white women’s complicity in upholding racist infrastructure, and so on. But also bring more to the narrative in the way of inventive scares, characterization, or even, where appropriate, some levity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Them\u003c/em> suffers from the same predicament that has arisen in the wake of Black people becoming hashtags in death—the public knows far more about their last moments on Earth than all the moments that made up their life before. Viewers who make it through all 10 episodes will know plenty about how the Emorys have suffered and been traumatized, but they won’t come away with much else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Them \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>debuts on Amazon Prime on Friday, April 9.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Them%27%3A+The+Trauma%2C+The+Trauma&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13895452/amazons-them-is-drowning-in-terror-trauma-and-too-many-ideas","authors":["byline_arts_13895452"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2210"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13895459","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13894072":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13894072","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13894072","score":null,"sort":[1615926047000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-amazons-shadow-an-america-divided-in-search-of-fulfillment","title":"In Amazon's Shadow, an America Divided in Search of 'Fulfillment'","publishDate":1615926047,"format":"standard","headTitle":"In Amazon’s Shadow, an America Divided in Search of ‘Fulfillment’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>America has been sorted. There are “winner-take-all” places and “left-behind” places—and the two are increasingly isolated, struggling to comprehend the divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the story that unfolds in Alec MacGillis’ \u003cem>Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America\u003c/em>. Ostensibly about Amazon, the book is instead an economic history of the country, shaped by an intimate introduction to people living and working in Amazon’s shadow as their home cities and states transform around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894073\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-800x1198.jpg\" alt=\"A truck drives down an empty road on the cover of 'Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America,' by Alec MacGillis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-800x1198.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-768x1150.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-1026x1536.jpg 1026w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb.jpg 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America,’ by Alec MacGillis. \u003ccite>(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That shadow of Amazon forms slowly. MacGillis, a reporter for \u003cem>ProPublica, \u003c/em>devotes much of his writing to intricate portraits: a forklift driver and a salvaged-brick seller from Baltimore, a lawyer-turned-artist and a gospel-choir leader from Seattle, a young politician and a truck driver from Ohio. These personal stories are sweeping and in-depth, and not all connect directly to Amazon. But most bring to light some facet of the company or socioeconomic forces shaping the communities affected by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrative traces how hypergrowth and prosperity clustered in a few places—Seattle, Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C.—in parallel to the regression and often overwrought pursuit of revival by cities that corporate rainmakers bypassed. MacGillis lingers on several historic retrospectives about the decline of companies that once thrived in “left-behind” places: Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore, Md.; National Cash Register in Dayton, Ohio; Bon-Ton in York, Pa.; auto plants and other manufacturing across the states. [aside postid='arts_13874905']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, America’s tech economy launched an era where the key to competitiveness became human rather than physical capital. New corporate giants concentrated workers and wealth around themselves, creating a feedback loop that continued to propel already prosperous cities even as they got more expensive. Since the 1970s, MacGillis writes, wages in the very largest cities have grown far faster than in the rest of the country—by 20 percentage points. And lower-wage workers relocating to the costly prosperous cities stood to gain much less than highly educated professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regional inequality was making parts of the country incomprehensible to one another—one world wracked with painkillers, the other tainted by elite-college admission schemes,” MacGillis writes. Amazon, he eventually posits, “was playing an outsized role in this zero-sum sorting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of Amazon’s sorting is its internal division. Now the second-largest private U.S. employer, Amazon is now a company with clout in both white-collar and blue-collar work. Employing some 1.3 million people worldwide, it’s run—\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963370968/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazons-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at least for a few more months\u003c/a>—by one of the wealthiest people in modern history. MacGillis delivers a key insight:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The company had, in a sense, segmented its workforce into classes and spread them across the map: there were its engineering and software-developer towns, there were the datacenter towns, and there were the warehouse towns.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fulfillment \u003c/em>visits each type of town, punctuating their many pain-points. The erosion of historic Black neighborhoods in Seattle. Anonymous, mass-recruiting fairs for warehouses in struggling suburbs. Deaths and injuries involving forklifts and trucks. A civic battle in Virginia over a power line to Amazon’s data center—a plan that at first intended to seize land from residents of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/as-data-centers-bloom-a-century-old-african-american-enclave-is-threatened/2017/07/02/f33db65a-5502-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">century-old African-American enclave\u003c/a>, but later took a different tack funded partly by new fees on local electric bills. (Amazon, MacGillis notes, sought a discounted rate.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacGillis lays out, with detail gathered through freedom of information requests, exactly how Amazon methodically built its presence in several communities: playing “the reluctant target rather than the suitor” to receive tax breaks and other financial perks, often demanding total secrecy. A recurrent spotlight falls on Amazon’s tax-avoidance, which MacGillis calls out as contributing to “the unraveling of the civic fabric:” the company’s facilities straining roadways, housing and utilities while eroding the governments’ ability to support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critic’s business case against Amazon takes shape in the chapter about the company’s push to become a top provider of office supplies to schools, governments and other organizations. A former pen salesman lays out, at a registered-guests-only expo MacGillis attended in Texas, how Amazon wins at the expense of small sellers: The company collects fees on every item that sells; it bears no cost for items that don’t sell well, but can copycat hot sellers and drive even more demand by pushing prices down, eroding small sellers’ profits while still collecting more fees. [aside postid='arts_13882749']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fulfillment is a functional term for work done inside Amazon’s sprawling warehouses. It is also a promise advertised by Amazon on the buildings “to all who passed by, all who had a longing—for what, exactly, they might still be trying to decide—and now knew from whence it would be delivered to them.” This promise, MacGillis points out, applies less obviously to workers inside. They and other people under Amazon’s shadow are the main subjects of his book: finding and losing jobs, building families and grieving loved ones, growing roots and uprooting, quelling sore limbs with numbing creams and ice—performing and, or, searching for \u003cem>fulfillment.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+Amazon%27s+Shadow%2C+An+America+Divided+In+Search+Of+%27Fulfillment%27+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new book explains how Amazon has carved America up into \"software-developer towns, datacenter towns and warehouse towns.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019342,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":925},"headData":{"title":"In Amazon's Shadow, an America Divided in Search of 'Fulfillment' | KQED","description":"A new book explains how Amazon has carved America up into "software-developer towns, datacenter towns and warehouse towns."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"In Amazon's Shadow, an America Divided in Search of 'Fulfillment'","datePublished":"2021-03-16T20:20:47.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:29:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Alina Selyukh","nprImageAgency":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","nprStoryId":"975013832","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=975013832&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/975013832/in-amazons-shadow-an-america-divided-in-search-of-fulfillment?ft=nprml&f=975013832","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:28:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:28:29 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:28:29 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13894072/in-amazons-shadow-an-america-divided-in-search-of-fulfillment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>America has been sorted. There are “winner-take-all” places and “left-behind” places—and the two are increasingly isolated, struggling to comprehend the divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the story that unfolds in Alec MacGillis’ \u003cem>Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America\u003c/em>. Ostensibly about Amazon, the book is instead an economic history of the country, shaped by an intimate introduction to people living and working in Amazon’s shadow as their home cities and states transform around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894073\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-800x1198.jpg\" alt=\"A truck drives down an empty road on the cover of 'Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America,' by Alec MacGillis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-800x1198.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-768x1150.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-1026x1536.jpg 1026w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/amazon_custom-946d118b67f91d40d811f0651de08a23dc70f8cb.jpg 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America,’ by Alec MacGillis. \u003ccite>(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That shadow of Amazon forms slowly. MacGillis, a reporter for \u003cem>ProPublica, \u003c/em>devotes much of his writing to intricate portraits: a forklift driver and a salvaged-brick seller from Baltimore, a lawyer-turned-artist and a gospel-choir leader from Seattle, a young politician and a truck driver from Ohio. These personal stories are sweeping and in-depth, and not all connect directly to Amazon. But most bring to light some facet of the company or socioeconomic forces shaping the communities affected by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrative traces how hypergrowth and prosperity clustered in a few places—Seattle, Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C.—in parallel to the regression and often overwrought pursuit of revival by cities that corporate rainmakers bypassed. MacGillis lingers on several historic retrospectives about the decline of companies that once thrived in “left-behind” places: Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore, Md.; National Cash Register in Dayton, Ohio; Bon-Ton in York, Pa.; auto plants and other manufacturing across the states. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13874905","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, America’s tech economy launched an era where the key to competitiveness became human rather than physical capital. New corporate giants concentrated workers and wealth around themselves, creating a feedback loop that continued to propel already prosperous cities even as they got more expensive. Since the 1970s, MacGillis writes, wages in the very largest cities have grown far faster than in the rest of the country—by 20 percentage points. And lower-wage workers relocating to the costly prosperous cities stood to gain much less than highly educated professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regional inequality was making parts of the country incomprehensible to one another—one world wracked with painkillers, the other tainted by elite-college admission schemes,” MacGillis writes. Amazon, he eventually posits, “was playing an outsized role in this zero-sum sorting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of Amazon’s sorting is its internal division. Now the second-largest private U.S. employer, Amazon is now a company with clout in both white-collar and blue-collar work. Employing some 1.3 million people worldwide, it’s run—\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963370968/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazons-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at least for a few more months\u003c/a>—by one of the wealthiest people in modern history. MacGillis delivers a key insight:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The company had, in a sense, segmented its workforce into classes and spread them across the map: there were its engineering and software-developer towns, there were the datacenter towns, and there were the warehouse towns.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fulfillment \u003c/em>visits each type of town, punctuating their many pain-points. The erosion of historic Black neighborhoods in Seattle. Anonymous, mass-recruiting fairs for warehouses in struggling suburbs. Deaths and injuries involving forklifts and trucks. A civic battle in Virginia over a power line to Amazon’s data center—a plan that at first intended to seize land from residents of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/as-data-centers-bloom-a-century-old-african-american-enclave-is-threatened/2017/07/02/f33db65a-5502-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">century-old African-American enclave\u003c/a>, but later took a different tack funded partly by new fees on local electric bills. (Amazon, MacGillis notes, sought a discounted rate.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacGillis lays out, with detail gathered through freedom of information requests, exactly how Amazon methodically built its presence in several communities: playing “the reluctant target rather than the suitor” to receive tax breaks and other financial perks, often demanding total secrecy. A recurrent spotlight falls on Amazon’s tax-avoidance, which MacGillis calls out as contributing to “the unraveling of the civic fabric:” the company’s facilities straining roadways, housing and utilities while eroding the governments’ ability to support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critic’s business case against Amazon takes shape in the chapter about the company’s push to become a top provider of office supplies to schools, governments and other organizations. A former pen salesman lays out, at a registered-guests-only expo MacGillis attended in Texas, how Amazon wins at the expense of small sellers: The company collects fees on every item that sells; it bears no cost for items that don’t sell well, but can copycat hot sellers and drive even more demand by pushing prices down, eroding small sellers’ profits while still collecting more fees. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13882749","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fulfillment is a functional term for work done inside Amazon’s sprawling warehouses. It is also a promise advertised by Amazon on the buildings “to all who passed by, all who had a longing—for what, exactly, they might still be trying to decide—and now knew from whence it would be delivered to them.” This promise, MacGillis points out, applies less obviously to workers inside. They and other people under Amazon’s shadow are the main subjects of his book: finding and losing jobs, building families and grieving loved ones, growing roots and uprooting, quelling sore limbs with numbing creams and ice—performing and, or, searching for \u003cem>fulfillment.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+Amazon%27s+Shadow%2C+An+America+Divided+In+Search+Of+%27Fulfillment%27+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13894072/in-amazons-shadow-an-america-divided-in-search-of-fulfillment","authors":["byline_arts_13894072"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73"],"tags":["arts_2210","arts_9034"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13894078","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13876849":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13876849","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13876849","score":null,"sort":[1584465428000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bookstores-face-weeks-of-closure-just-as-readers-need-them-most","title":"Bookstores Face Weeks of Closure Just as Readers Need Them Most","publishDate":1584465428,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bookstores Face Weeks of Closure Just as Readers Need Them Most | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Like many small businesses deemed non-essential, Bay Area bookstores will close to the public on Tuesday, sending their staff home and sheltering in place by county or city mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is especially hard for booksellers, many of whom view their services as essential to the health of civic life, by keeping their customers informed, entertained and distracted during a global pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t closed since the 1989 earthquake and that was only one day,” says Pete Mulvihill, co-owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenapplebooks.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Green Apple Books\u003c/a>, which currently has three locations and 40 staff. “That’s 52 years of uninterrupted bookselling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the shelter-in-place order, he says, “It’s a relief in some way because it takes it out of our hands. We weren’t sure what the best thing to do was.” He had planned to restrict the number of customers in the store and provide curbside pick-ups for online orders, but he admits that the pessimist in him saw these more drastic measures coming. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he can’t predict is the future of his business during and after the shelter-in-place order. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13876870\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200-1020x1020.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Green Apple on Clement Street; the bookstore has two additional locations, Green Apple Books on the Park and Browser Books. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Green Apple Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, independent bookstores have distinguished themselves by providing what online retailers like Amazon can’t: a sense of community. Now, that very advantage is a danger to their customers, many of whom are at higher risk for serious illness from the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in the business in bringing people together over literature and art,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.silversprocket.net/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Sprocket\u003c/a> owner Avi Ehrlich. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrlich just moved his indie comics shop from the Haight to a new location on Valencia Street at the beginning of February, ordering large quantities of books for the store’s grand opening party, which was meant to take place March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re already in the red,” Ehrlich says. “We were counting on the opening party to pay back all these credit cards we put the books on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B8R8jlAhKTu/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bookstore employees, like other hourly workers, are facing weeks of uncertainty in the face of city restrictions on work and travel. Sarah Manolis, events manager and bookseller at \u003ca href=\"https://www.booksmith.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Booksmith\u003c/a>, says, “A lot of our staff are pretty anxious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulvihill says Green Apple’s priority in the coming weeks will be their staff. With what little money they have on hand, they will pay everyone through Friday and then exhaust their PTO for the year. After that, he says, “I truly don’t know how long we will be able to keep anybody.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My number-one hope is that my staff can eat and live and have their health taken care of,” Mulvihill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='coronavirus' label='Related coverage']With San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley Public Library locations closed to the public for the foreseeable future, people who want to momentarily transport themselves via a good book will need to turn to either digital services or purchasing books online. All local bookstores urge their patrons to frequent their online stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most local bookstores do not have the infrastructure and backend that places like Amazon have,” Manolis says. “When you are buying a book from a bookstore, the people you’re benefiting are the actual people in the store.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope you have enough books for your shelter-in-pace,” reads the “updates” section of The Booksmith’s homepage. “If not, we’ve curated lists of our current feature displays so you can browse and choose books the way you would in three dimensions.” Manolis say they’ll be adding the shelf talkers (bookseller testimonials) that so often convince customers to buy books as they build out The Booksmith’s site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrlich encourages people to listen when businesses and affected by the shelter-in-place order ask for help: “People are being direct about what they want.” At the same time, he says, he won’t be angry if anyone prioritizes groceries over comic books. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, store owners say, we shouldn’t underestimate the health benefits of a good read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see print and books as a throughline or continuity that people can rely on when things get weird or it feels like the world is ending,” Booksmith manager Camden Avery says. “Books aren’t in a hurry.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bookstores offer what online retailers can’t: a sense of community. 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We weren’t sure what the best thing to do was.” He had planned to restrict the number of customers in the store and provide curbside pick-ups for online orders, but he admits that the pessimist in him saw these more drastic measures coming. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he can’t predict is the future of his business during and after the shelter-in-place order. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13876870\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/GreenApple_1200-1020x1020.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Green Apple on Clement Street; the bookstore has two additional locations, Green Apple Books on the Park and Browser Books. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Green Apple Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, independent bookstores have distinguished themselves by providing what online retailers like Amazon can’t: a sense of community. Now, that very advantage is a danger to their customers, many of whom are at higher risk for serious illness from the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in the business in bringing people together over literature and art,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.silversprocket.net/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Sprocket\u003c/a> owner Avi Ehrlich. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrlich just moved his indie comics shop from the Haight to a new location on Valencia Street at the beginning of February, ordering large quantities of books for the store’s grand opening party, which was meant to take place March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re already in the red,” Ehrlich says. “We were counting on the opening party to pay back all these credit cards we put the books on.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"B8R8jlAhKTu"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bookstore employees, like other hourly workers, are facing weeks of uncertainty in the face of city restrictions on work and travel. Sarah Manolis, events manager and bookseller at \u003ca href=\"https://www.booksmith.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Booksmith\u003c/a>, says, “A lot of our staff are pretty anxious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulvihill says Green Apple’s priority in the coming weeks will be their staff. With what little money they have on hand, they will pay everyone through Friday and then exhaust their PTO for the year. After that, he says, “I truly don’t know how long we will be able to keep anybody.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My number-one hope is that my staff can eat and live and have their health taken care of,” Mulvihill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"coronavirus","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley Public Library locations closed to the public for the foreseeable future, people who want to momentarily transport themselves via a good book will need to turn to either digital services or purchasing books online. All local bookstores urge their patrons to frequent their online stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most local bookstores do not have the infrastructure and backend that places like Amazon have,” Manolis says. “When you are buying a book from a bookstore, the people you’re benefiting are the actual people in the store.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope you have enough books for your shelter-in-pace,” reads the “updates” section of The Booksmith’s homepage. “If not, we’ve curated lists of our current feature displays so you can browse and choose books the way you would in three dimensions.” Manolis say they’ll be adding the shelf talkers (bookseller testimonials) that so often convince customers to buy books as they build out The Booksmith’s site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehrlich encourages people to listen when businesses and affected by the shelter-in-place order ask for help: “People are being direct about what they want.” At the same time, he says, he won’t be angry if anyone prioritizes groceries over comic books. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, store owners say, we shouldn’t underestimate the health benefits of a good read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see print and books as a throughline or continuity that people can rely on when things get weird or it feels like the world is ending,” Booksmith manager Camden Avery says. “Books aren’t in a hurry.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13876849/bookstores-face-weeks-of-closure-just-as-readers-need-them-most","authors":["61"],"categories":["arts_73","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_2210","arts_928","arts_10126","arts_10278","arts_9598"],"featImg":"arts_13876869","label":"arts"},"arts_13874905":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13874905","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13874905","score":null,"sort":[1581622557000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"filmmaker-tracks-bezos-rise-and-reign-and-how-amazon-became-inescapable","title":"Filmmaker Tracks Bezos' 'Rise and Reign' and How Amazon Became 'Inescapable'","publishDate":1581622557,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Filmmaker Tracks Bezos’ ‘Rise and Reign’ and How Amazon Became ‘Inescapable’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is now the richest man in the world, with an empire that stretches from Hollywood to Whole Foods—and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/15/440521318/amazons-bezos-announces-plan-to-build-launch-rockets-from-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">into outer space\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new PBS FRONTLINE documentary, \u003cem>Amazon Empire: The Rise And Reign Of Jeff Bezos,\u003c/em> investigates how Bezos transformed Amazon from an online bookseller into a trillion-dollar business that’s unprecedented in its size and reach. Director James Jacoby, who worked with fellow filmmaker Anya Bourg on the project, calls the company an “inescapable part of our modern lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXzDXsXKjFk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just how the majority of Americans are shopping online,” he says. “It’s also these devices in our homes. It’s also the facial recognition software that’s used by police departments. It’s cloud computing for the government and national security establishment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacoby notes that Amazon’s ubiquity—and the fact that “so much power is pooled into the hands of one company and one man”—raises a host of issues. The company’s Echo smart speaker has been known to record—and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/25/614470096/amazon-echo-recorded-and-sent-couples-conversation-all-without-their-knowledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">occasionally listen to\u003c/a>—the conversations of unsuspecting homeowners. In 2019, the European Union antitrust arm announced an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/742615426/eu-investigates-if-amazon-hurts-competition-by-using-sellers-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> into Amazon’s use of data collected from third-party sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that [\u003cem>Atlantic \u003c/em>writer] Franklin Foer in the film puts it best, which is like everything that’s amazing or awesome about Jeff Bezos and Amazon is also something to be feared about Amazon and Jeff Bezos,” Jacoby says.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why, in part, Amazon began as a bookseller\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Books are easy to ship. … And [Bezos] also realized that in the online world, there would be an advantage that no single bookstore could hold all of the books in print. … He also, I think, saw an opportunity to learn about customers through what they read. He recognized very early on the power of data to predict what people would want. So in many ways, you are what you read and you could glean a lot about a customer from what he or she reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On working conditions in Amazon warehouses \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke to dozens of current and former employees in the reporting process. The nature of the work has changed a bit over the years. When Bezos was first building out these fulfillment centers all over the country in order to deliver on the promise of delivering packages quickly, it was almost ad hoc. They were growing so quickly. And there were a lot of complaints at the time about things like heat stress. There wouldn’t be the proper air conditioning in these warehouses, and people would be working like crazy to try to meet these quotas to get the packages out. People would be fainting in these warehouses. There’d be injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the warehouses have become much more systematized, in part because of the automation of the warehouses and buying a robot company that helped to automate things. But one thing that hasn’t changed in talking to workers—both current and former—is the pace of work is incredibly grueling. You have to make rates. … The rate essentially measures how quickly you pick and pack items. … Every single worker we spoke to [talked about how] the rates were really high. They have a way of setting the rates for the whole warehouse—that if you don’t make that rate, then you can get a write up. And if you get three write ups, then you can be fired. There’s a lot of anxiety in these warehouses about making rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13874906\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/ap_17355673041435-da6c9a9e352c23da25128aaa655674b4308acd76-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A clerk picks an item for a customer order at the Amazon Prime warehouse in New York. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A clerk picks an item for a customer order at the Amazon Prime warehouse in New York. \u003ccite>(Mark Lennihan/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On a recent hack on Amazon’s “Ring” cameras \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ring makes these doorbell cameras, that was their first main device. … It’s a doorbell that has a camera on it. In part, Amazon liked the idea of it, because package theft is a big deal for the company—a lot of people get packages to their door and someone’s stealing that package. So now you can watch your front step. Of course, if the camera is watching the front step, it’s also watching the public space on the street as well, which is somewhat problematic. So there’s now this whole suite of Ring devices and Ring cameras, not just to monitor the outside of your home but also the inside of your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/12/she-installed-ring-camera-her-childrens-room-peace-mind-hacker-accessed-it-harassed-her-year-old-daughter/?arc404=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent hack\u003c/a> of indoor Ring cameras, which was rather frightful. … There’s a little girl in her room and her parents had installed a Ring camera in that room and all of a sudden there’s a voice coming from the camera that’s basically terrorizing her as she’s alone in her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how facial recognition software and data collection is in Amazon’s hands, and is vulnerable to hacks and bad agents \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this data, all of these networks—it’s all up to Amazon to manage this well. And they say that that’s the thing that holds them accountable, keeps them responsible on a daily basis, is that they can’t breach customer trust. For a company that’s built its brand on building customer trust on delivering for customers, on not breaching their trust, these sorts of hacks, these sorts of problems, are devastating to their image, because it gets customers and citizens concerned about whether we should entrust a company like Amazon with all of this. And, of course, there are safeguards in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I think some of the larger questions about Amazon are whether there are really any auditing systems, public auditing systems for cases of abuse. … We’re reliant on a private company to police abuse, and there’s no way to publicly audit whether they’re doing a good job of that. And that’s something that we asked Amazon executives about—not just about Ring cameras and Echo devices—but certainly facial recognition software, which is a very powerful tool that they have really encouraged police departments around the country to experiment with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s idea of \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/15/702707734/sen-elizabeth-warren-takes-longtime-fight-for-a-level-playing-field-to-2020-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>breaking up\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> big tech companies \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, what “break them up” really means is to try to limit the lines of business that Amazon can engage in. So, for instance, Amazon is this platform for online commerce that they themselves are competing on as a store against other stores and retailers. So she has this idea of maybe they shouldn’t be competing on a platform that they own, maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to be doing that, because they have an unfair advantage. That’s in part what break them up means. And so I think it’s certainly something that Congress is going to be considering. And I think some of the other candidates have been supportive of that idea of breaking them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Bezos’ space exploration company Blue Origin \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to Jeff Bezos, he’s got two CEOs that are running Amazon and he has stepped away a bit from the company. I mean, he’s helping to expand it into India and other places. But as we understand it, his primary goal is to focus on his company Blue Origin. And Blue Origin is his space exploration company. It’s his rocket ship company. And essentially it’s the fulfillment of something that has been his lifelong goal and plan, which is to, as he puts it, build the infrastructure to go to space and to make it cost-effective for us to figure out what to do in space. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Bezos] claims—and I think he’s genuine in believing this—that he wants to save planet Earth, and his whole idea is that he wants there to be dynamism and growth. He believes in capitalism. He believes in consumerism. He believes that … we’re going to need to look to the heavens, essentially, to figure out how we can continue to live in a world of dynamism and growth. And that, in Jeff Bezos’ mind, means we may need to move heavy industry into space. We may need to mine other planets or planetary objects for their resources, or we may need to actually build space colonies. He is really serious about this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Heidi Saman and Seth Kelley produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. 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Director James Jacoby, who worked with fellow filmmaker Anya Bourg on the project, calls the company an “inescapable part of our modern lives.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/DXzDXsXKjFk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/DXzDXsXKjFk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“It’s not just how the majority of Americans are shopping online,” he says. “It’s also these devices in our homes. It’s also the facial recognition software that’s used by police departments. It’s cloud computing for the government and national security establishment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacoby notes that Amazon’s ubiquity—and the fact that “so much power is pooled into the hands of one company and one man”—raises a host of issues. The company’s Echo smart speaker has been known to record—and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/25/614470096/amazon-echo-recorded-and-sent-couples-conversation-all-without-their-knowledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">occasionally listen to\u003c/a>—the conversations of unsuspecting homeowners. In 2019, the European Union antitrust arm announced an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/742615426/eu-investigates-if-amazon-hurts-competition-by-using-sellers-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> into Amazon’s use of data collected from third-party sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that [\u003cem>Atlantic \u003c/em>writer] Franklin Foer in the film puts it best, which is like everything that’s amazing or awesome about Jeff Bezos and Amazon is also something to be feared about Amazon and Jeff Bezos,” Jacoby says.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why, in part, Amazon began as a bookseller\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Books are easy to ship. … And [Bezos] also realized that in the online world, there would be an advantage that no single bookstore could hold all of the books in print. … He also, I think, saw an opportunity to learn about customers through what they read. He recognized very early on the power of data to predict what people would want. So in many ways, you are what you read and you could glean a lot about a customer from what he or she reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On working conditions in Amazon warehouses \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke to dozens of current and former employees in the reporting process. The nature of the work has changed a bit over the years. When Bezos was first building out these fulfillment centers all over the country in order to deliver on the promise of delivering packages quickly, it was almost ad hoc. They were growing so quickly. And there were a lot of complaints at the time about things like heat stress. There wouldn’t be the proper air conditioning in these warehouses, and people would be working like crazy to try to meet these quotas to get the packages out. People would be fainting in these warehouses. There’d be injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the warehouses have become much more systematized, in part because of the automation of the warehouses and buying a robot company that helped to automate things. But one thing that hasn’t changed in talking to workers—both current and former—is the pace of work is incredibly grueling. You have to make rates. … The rate essentially measures how quickly you pick and pack items. … Every single worker we spoke to [talked about how] the rates were really high. They have a way of setting the rates for the whole warehouse—that if you don’t make that rate, then you can get a write up. And if you get three write ups, then you can be fired. There’s a lot of anxiety in these warehouses about making rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13874906\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/ap_17355673041435-da6c9a9e352c23da25128aaa655674b4308acd76-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A clerk picks an item for a customer order at the Amazon Prime warehouse in New York. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A clerk picks an item for a customer order at the Amazon Prime warehouse in New York. \u003ccite>(Mark Lennihan/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On a recent hack on Amazon’s “Ring” cameras \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ring makes these doorbell cameras, that was their first main device. … It’s a doorbell that has a camera on it. In part, Amazon liked the idea of it, because package theft is a big deal for the company—a lot of people get packages to their door and someone’s stealing that package. So now you can watch your front step. Of course, if the camera is watching the front step, it’s also watching the public space on the street as well, which is somewhat problematic. So there’s now this whole suite of Ring devices and Ring cameras, not just to monitor the outside of your home but also the inside of your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/12/she-installed-ring-camera-her-childrens-room-peace-mind-hacker-accessed-it-harassed-her-year-old-daughter/?arc404=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent hack\u003c/a> of indoor Ring cameras, which was rather frightful. … There’s a little girl in her room and her parents had installed a Ring camera in that room and all of a sudden there’s a voice coming from the camera that’s basically terrorizing her as she’s alone in her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how facial recognition software and data collection is in Amazon’s hands, and is vulnerable to hacks and bad agents \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this data, all of these networks—it’s all up to Amazon to manage this well. And they say that that’s the thing that holds them accountable, keeps them responsible on a daily basis, is that they can’t breach customer trust. For a company that’s built its brand on building customer trust on delivering for customers, on not breaching their trust, these sorts of hacks, these sorts of problems, are devastating to their image, because it gets customers and citizens concerned about whether we should entrust a company like Amazon with all of this. And, of course, there are safeguards in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I think some of the larger questions about Amazon are whether there are really any auditing systems, public auditing systems for cases of abuse. … We’re reliant on a private company to police abuse, and there’s no way to publicly audit whether they’re doing a good job of that. And that’s something that we asked Amazon executives about—not just about Ring cameras and Echo devices—but certainly facial recognition software, which is a very powerful tool that they have really encouraged police departments around the country to experiment with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s idea of \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/15/702707734/sen-elizabeth-warren-takes-longtime-fight-for-a-level-playing-field-to-2020-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>breaking up\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> big tech companies \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, what “break them up” really means is to try to limit the lines of business that Amazon can engage in. So, for instance, Amazon is this platform for online commerce that they themselves are competing on as a store against other stores and retailers. So she has this idea of maybe they shouldn’t be competing on a platform that they own, maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to be doing that, because they have an unfair advantage. That’s in part what break them up means. And so I think it’s certainly something that Congress is going to be considering. And I think some of the other candidates have been supportive of that idea of breaking them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Bezos’ space exploration company Blue Origin \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to Jeff Bezos, he’s got two CEOs that are running Amazon and he has stepped away a bit from the company. I mean, he’s helping to expand it into India and other places. But as we understand it, his primary goal is to focus on his company Blue Origin. And Blue Origin is his space exploration company. It’s his rocket ship company. 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