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I ended up at De Anza [Community College] for two years, and the intention was to transfer to a film school and that’s what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about your Oscar-nominated film. There’s a part when Wài Pó says, “in the future, you can show your children what we were like.” That really struck me. My family just laid my grandmother to rest a few weeks ago. So watching your grandmothers made me think about my own, and it’s really cool that you’ll get to have this memory of them after they are gone. I’m guessing that was at least part of the motivation and inspiration behind it? Did you go into it thinking about a short film, or were you just wanting to capture memories?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you for sharing that with me. It was both, I think. The catalyst for the film was just wanting to film them and make \u003cem>something\u003c/em>. I moved to New York City after I graduated college and lived there for about 5 or 6 years. Then in the spring of 2021, I moved home to the Bay Area, and in that period of living with them, there was so much joy. I really got to see my grandmothers and experience day-to-day life with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1208\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-800x604.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-1020x770.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-768x580.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-1536x1160.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, filmmaker Sean Wang’s ‘Wài Pó,’ Chang Li Hua, and ‘Nǎi Nai,’ Yi Yan Fuei, in a still from the Oscar-nominated documentary short film ‘Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Disney+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there was also this extreme anger and helplessness that a lot of people were feeling at that time with Covid, and with the rise in anti-Asian violence that was happening to people like my grandmothers, and people in our community. As a filmmaker, anytime I feel those emotions that are so visceral, it challenges me to ask, “Where are these emotions coming from? And how can we use that and create art?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The antidote to the anger was their joy. I wanted to make a film that was a container for all of their humanity, their joy, their silliness, their infectious, childlike energy, but also their pain and their lives that they lived before they were my grandmothers. And create a holistic portrait of that to show just how human they are, in a way that I felt people were overlooking in our society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to what you were saying, at the end of the day, there was this home video mentality that we brought to it, where I just wanted to remember them and remember this moment that I had with them. So even if nobody watched it, it was still a memento and a time capsule for myself and my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Wang touches foreheads with Nǎi Nai in a still from his documentary short film ‘Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Disney+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have a favorite scene from the film? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a shot in the end montage, where me and Nǎi Nai are touching foreheads. That shot always makes me emotional. I always thank [producer] Sam [Davis] for capturing that. I edited the movie too, so there were moments in the edit that always gutted me. There’s a moment where Wài Pó was talking about, “I’m not afraid of death.” You can tell she’s thinking about mortality in those moments and you can see it in her eyes – not just the pain, but the humanity. And she takes a little sigh, and that moment always gutted me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad alignright]\u003cstrong>What’s the feeling amongst your family in terms of this accomplishment, and all the excitement going into the Oscars? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re all excited. We were able to get tickets for the whole family, so it’s really a proper family affair. I feel like I’m the grandmothers’ “plus one” in all of this. As long as they’re having a good time and they feel taken care of, I’ll feel like I’m having a good time. At the end of the day, we’ve already won because this experience has been so special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you take home the Oscar, is there a favorite spot in the Bay Area where you and your family would go to celebrate?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a good question. Growing up, we used to go out to dinner at Darda Seafood in Milpitas all the time. We haven’t been in years. But that was like a family tradition. Maybe we’ll bring that back for this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The director of 'Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó' was a skate-video kid from Fremont — now he's nominated at the Academy Awards.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709920636,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1508},"headData":{"title":"Sean Wang — and his Grandmas — Will Rep Fremont at the Oscars | KQED","description":"The director of 'Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó' was a skate-video kid from Fremont — now he's nominated at the Academy Awards.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/cb7421b8-1bbf-47ff-a28e-b12d01130f10/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13953477/sean-wang-and-his-grandmas-will-rep-fremont-at-the-oscars","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sean Wang is having an awesome start to his year. The 30-year-old filmmaker from Fremont is nominated for his first Academy Award at this weekend’s Oscars ceremony for Best Documentary Short Film. Wang’s 17-minute documentary \u003cem>Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó\u003c/em> (\u003cem>Grandma & Grandma\u003c/em>), available to stream on on Disney+ and Hulu, sweetly captures the daily routines of his two grandmothers who live together in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before getting that golden news from the Academy, Wang debuted his first feature film, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.focusfeatures.com/article/didi_date-announcement\">Dìdi\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, at the Sundance Festival. A coming-of-age story that Wang calls “a love letter to the Bay Area, Fremont especially,” \u003cem>Dìdi\u003c/em> won two festival awards and was picked up by Focus Features, which will give it a limited theatrical release this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I caught up with Wang over Zoom to talk about life since the Oscar nod, his filmmaker origin story in the Bay (“everything traces back to skateboarding”) and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ariana Proehl: A lot of people have seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCNMXENmOpk\">the reaction video\u003c/a> of you and your family receiving news of your Oscar nomination. What’s the ride been like since then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sean Wang\u003c/strong>: So surreal. This experience has overlapped with premiering my first feature film, so it’s two incredible experiences happening at the same time. It really is beyond my wildest dreams. And to get to do it with my grandmothers and have them really enjoy this process – and feel like we’re giving them a core memory at 96 and 86 years old – there’s no real downside.\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/7fBvvRBlDHc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7fBvvRBlDHc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And how are your Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó feeling about everything? Are they excited to have their glam moment at the Oscars?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, they’re getting styled by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3tDpLppEhZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Rodarte and Shirley Kurata\u003c/a>, who was a costume designer for \u003cem>Everything Everywhere All at Once\u003c/em>. So we’re giving them a Hollywood night that, hopefully, we’ll remember forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That’s huge! Have they become local celebrities around Fremont?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They don’t leave the house much, so I don’t think they’re getting stopped on the street or at the Chinese supermarket, but certainly within the cultural circles that I am a part of. At the [Oscars] luncheon, people were like, “Oh my God, it’s the grandmas!” And so that’s a very strange but cool experience to have them be noticed and seen like that.\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>\u003cstrong>Flashing back a little bit on your history, I’m curious when you first realized you wanted to be a filmmaker, and how you went about exploring that while growing up in Fremont?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything traces back to skateboarding for me. I’m a younger sibling; all of my cousins in the States are older than me. For a lot of my early years, my interests and my identity was looking at them and what they liked. But then I discovered skating when I was 12 or 13 years old, and that was just a very pure love. It was something that was really my own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through skating, I got into photography and videos and filming my friends. I started making \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/bJxl7xJh46I?si=HWYSsNh_yxeCqiLV\">little documentaries\u003c/a>, and that was like a buzz for me. I was excited about putting it on YouTube, but I didn’t really have the language for it – that it was “filmmaking.” I just really loved doing it.\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/bJxl7xJh46I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/bJxl7xJh46I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When I graduated high school, that was the first real fork in the road, where it’s like, \u003cem>okay, is there a career doing this\u003c/em>? Growing up in Fremont, there just isn’t that language. I didn’t know any other filmmakers. There were no examples that I could really follow. But I knew that whatever this was, it was a very pure love. I ended up at De Anza [Community College] for two years, and the intention was to transfer to a film school and that’s what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about your Oscar-nominated film. There’s a part when Wài Pó says, “in the future, you can show your children what we were like.” That really struck me. My family just laid my grandmother to rest a few weeks ago. So watching your grandmothers made me think about my own, and it’s really cool that you’ll get to have this memory of them after they are gone. I’m guessing that was at least part of the motivation and inspiration behind it? Did you go into it thinking about a short film, or were you just wanting to capture memories?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you for sharing that with me. It was both, I think. The catalyst for the film was just wanting to film them and make \u003cem>something\u003c/em>. I moved to New York City after I graduated college and lived there for about 5 or 6 years. Then in the spring of 2021, I moved home to the Bay Area, and in that period of living with them, there was so much joy. I really got to see my grandmothers and experience day-to-day life with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1208\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-800x604.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-1020x770.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-768x580.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo-Film-Still-Edit-1536x1160.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, filmmaker Sean Wang’s ‘Wài Pó,’ Chang Li Hua, and ‘Nǎi Nai,’ Yi Yan Fuei, in a still from the Oscar-nominated documentary short film ‘Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Disney+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there was also this extreme anger and helplessness that a lot of people were feeling at that time with Covid, and with the rise in anti-Asian violence that was happening to people like my grandmothers, and people in our community. As a filmmaker, anytime I feel those emotions that are so visceral, it challenges me to ask, “Where are these emotions coming from? And how can we use that and create art?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The antidote to the anger was their joy. I wanted to make a film that was a container for all of their humanity, their joy, their silliness, their infectious, childlike energy, but also their pain and their lives that they lived before they were my grandmothers. And create a holistic portrait of that to show just how human they are, in a way that I felt people were overlooking in our society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to what you were saying, at the end of the day, there was this home video mentality that we brought to it, where I just wanted to remember them and remember this moment that I had with them. So even if nobody watched it, it was still a memento and a time capsule for myself and my family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/NaiNaiWaiPo_Foreheads-Edited-1536x1156.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Wang touches foreheads with Nǎi Nai in a still from his documentary short film ‘Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Disney+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have a favorite scene from the film? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a shot in the end montage, where me and Nǎi Nai are touching foreheads. That shot always makes me emotional. I always thank [producer] Sam [Davis] for capturing that. I edited the movie too, so there were moments in the edit that always gutted me. There’s a moment where Wài Pó was talking about, “I’m not afraid of death.” You can tell she’s thinking about mortality in those moments and you can see it in her eyes – not just the pain, but the humanity. And she takes a little sigh, and that moment always gutted me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"alignright"},"numeric":["alignright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the feeling amongst your family in terms of this accomplishment, and all the excitement going into the Oscars? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re all excited. We were able to get tickets for the whole family, so it’s really a proper family affair. I feel like I’m the grandmothers’ “plus one” in all of this. As long as they’re having a good time and they feel taken care of, I’ll feel like I’m having a good time. At the end of the day, we’ve already won because this experience has been so special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you take home the Oscar, is there a favorite spot in the Bay Area where you and your family would go to celebrate?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a good question. Growing up, we used to go out to dinner at Darda Seafood in Milpitas all the time. We haven’t been in years. But that was like a family tradition. Maybe we’ll bring that back for this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13953477/sean-wang-and-his-grandmas-will-rep-fremont-at-the-oscars","authors":["11296"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_3701","arts_4672","arts_3114","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_3852","arts_7496","arts_3698","arts_1442"],"featImg":"arts_13953492","label":"arts"},"arts_13940189":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13940189","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13940189","score":null,"sort":[1704825485000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-best-tv-of-early-2024-heres-what-to-watch-in-january","title":"The Best TV of Early 2024: Here's What to Watch in January","publishDate":1704825485,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Best TV of Early 2024: Here’s What to Watch in January | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>This is the year everything comes back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the sentiment you can practically feel bursting from show business, as we start a new year freed from the shackles of two Hollywood strikes, easing away from compensation conflicts that threatened to hobble most of the country’s film and TV industry permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13939170']Given everything that’s happened so far, it feels like a miracle to note that there are still a fair number of interesting, powerful and compelling TV shows headed our way in 2024 — from the return of one of the most creatively ambitious crime dramas in recent memory, now set in Alaska, to a Marvel series mostly shorn of superheroes that may demonstrate exactly how the MCU should do TV from now on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a list ticking off the best stuff coming to the small screen in the next few weeks. You can’t say you weren’t warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Echo\u003c/em>, Disney+, Jan. 9\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940191\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/echo-kingpin-and-maya-1_wide-6ef44d334c447f6e9657605de18910aab06c6a89-scaled-e1704823905895.jpe\" alt=\"An older white bald man sits across a table from a young woman of color in a leather jacket.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin and Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in Marvel Studios’ ‘Echo.’ \u003ccite>(Photo by Chuck Zlotnick/ © 2023 MARVEL.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know. I’m the one who was optimistic enough to say that dud of a Nick Fury series \u003cem>Secret Invasion \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183516470/review-marvel-secret-invasion\">might be the answer to Marvel’s problems with streaming\u003c/a>. But it turns out, \u003cem>Echo\u003c/em>‘s violent, back-to-basics story, starring Alaqua Cox is just what the TV critic ordered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, Cox plays Maya Lopez\u003cem>,\u003c/em> also known as Echo, a skilled fighter and gang leader who debuted in Disney+’s \u003cem>Hawkeye\u003c/em> series. And this story — in which Lopez is forced to revisit her past after learning Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin wanted her father killed — hearkens back to the heyday of Netflix’s \u003cem>Daredevil\u003c/em>-connected Marvel series, which mostly ditched flying people with capes for a more realistic, gritty style of action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez, like the actor who plays her, is Native American, was born deaf, and wears a prosthetic leg, breaking loads of barriers in representation through one powerful performance. She has to overcome a lot of assumptions and bridge a lot of different cultures while trying to discover exactly how she is going to make her former mentor pay for orchestrating the death of the person she loved most in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Criminal Record,\u003c/em> Apple TV+, Jan. 10\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940192\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/criminal_record_photo_010301_wide-3be7389a5fc2aab6666703a04ca9e097affced2a-scaled-e1704824067986.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man and younger Black woman talk in the street, near a British industrial estate.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo in ‘Criminal Record.’ \u003ccite>(Apple TV+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Featuring two of my favorite actors — \u003cem>The Good Wife/Good Fight\u003c/em> alum Cush Jumbo and former \u003cem>Doctor Who\u003c/em> star Peter Capaldi — this series explores in agonizing detail the effort by a young British police detective (Jumbo’s June Lenker) to learn if a police task force once led by Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty (a world-weary Capaldi) may have unfairly imprisoned a Black man years ago for murder. Along the way, we see Lenker forced to question her sensitivities to racism and sexism, while Hegarty fights to protect his legacy and his task force from accusations of corruption and prejudice. Best of all, there are no easy answers in this story, which delivers a delicious cat-and-mouse game between Lenker and Hegarty, with a surprising end.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>True Detective: Night Country, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>HBO and Max, Jan. 14\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4.jpe\" alt=\"Two female police officers stand side-by-side wearing large padded winter coats and shining flashlights into the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4.jpe 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-1536x864.jpe 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kali Reis and Jodie Foster in ‘True Detective: Night Country.’ \u003ccite>(Michele K. Short/ HBO)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261412408/hbos-true-detective-brings-big-stars-to-tell-a-brutal-tale\">groundbreaking first season\u003c/a> in 2014 with movie stars Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Michelle Monaghan, this anthology cop drama has struggled to live up to its potential as a genre shattering, high-end TV show. Fortunately, the new season remedies that problem with a typically excellent Jodie Foster as an irascible chief of police Liz Danvers in remote Ennis, Alaska. She’s forced to partner with a state trooper she hates — Evangeline Navarro, an Indigenous woman played by Kali Reis — to solve a mysterious mass murder at a scientific research station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Series creator Nic Pizzolatto steps aside as showrunner for the first time, allowing Mexican producer and film director Issa Lopez to serve as showrunner, director, and lead writer — crafting a complex, enthralling story centered on women resisting abuse from men, Indigenous culture, mental health, mysticism and the odd things which can happen in a town shrouded by darkness for six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>After Midnight, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>CBS, Jan. 16\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2107px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e.jpe\" alt=\"A young woman with long blonde hair stands, wearing a suit, hand in one pocket, confidently looking towards the camera. She stands before a purple background.\" width=\"2107\" height=\"1185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e.jpe 2107w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-1536x864.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-2048x1152.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-1920x1080.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2107px) 100vw, 2107px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Taylor Tomlinson will host ‘After Midnight.’ \u003ccite>(Ramona Rosales/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Late night TV stands at a crossroads, with stars like James Corden fleeing the genre as young people increasingly lose interest. I’m not sure if hiring\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1212737800/heres-what-to-know-on-taylor-tomlinson-one-of-late-night-tvs-newest-hosts\"> youthful comic Taylor Tomlinson\u003c/a> to host a faux game show centered on internet culture will help any of that. But this program — a reboot of a former Comedy Central series called \u003cem>@midnight\u003c/em> that’s replacing Corden’s \u003cem>The Late Late Show\u003c/em> — might at least offer an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I write this, critics haven’t yet seen the rebooted show, which originally featured a trio of comics joking around while answering a series of questions about internet culture. With Stephen Colbert and Funny or Die among a lengthy list of executive producers, one thing is certain: they will have few excuses for not bringing the funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>American Nightmare, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Netflix, Jan. 17\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2045px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849.jpe\" alt=\"A young attractive man and woman stand close together and smiling outside a home.\" width=\"2045\" height=\"1150\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849.jpe 2045w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-1536x864.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-1920x1080.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2045px) 100vw, 2045px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins in ‘American Nightmare.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Netflix © 2023)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This three-episode docuseries is focused on a jarring story: When physical therapist Aaron Quinn called police with a bizarrely outlandish tale, claiming that someone had bound and drugged him and kidnapped his girlfriend Denise Huskins for ransom, the cops assumed what many would — that Quinn was lying to cover up something he had done. But the truth was much darker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Netflix docuseries briskly traces the evolution of Quinn’s story — including the re-appearance of Huskins a while later, seemingly unharmed — revealing the shocking, terrible consequences when a police department has unacceptable procedures for handling crimes involving relationships and gender violence, choosing easy explanations over believing potential victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Masters of the Air, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Apple TV+, Jan. 26\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/masters_of_the_air_photo_010105_wide-5742ca35308a4273bc30926c4db3f5d04f634d72-scaled-e1704824534167.jpg\" alt=\"Two 1940s-era pilots stand before a biplane and gaze skyward.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Callum Turner and Austin Butler in ‘Masters of the Air.’ \u003ccite>(Apple TV+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Between the two of them, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have given us a long list of films and TV shows centered on the valor of American soldiers in World War II. So it makes a certain kind of sense they would return as executive producers on this limited series, which is a kind of \u003cem>Band of Brothers \u003c/em>set in the Air Force, depicting the true stories of an American bomber group in the Great War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a well-produced, at times gorily explicit drama featuring Austin Butler, working a buttery accent only slightly downshifted from his \u003cem>Elvis \u003c/em>patois, playing an airman trying to stay alive as U.S. forces face staggering losses while bombing Nazi Germany. At a time when audiences are trying to sort out complicated geopolitical conflicts in real life, Spielberg and Hanks once again offer simpler stories from a time when America was more likely to be considered the unambiguous hero.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>FX, Jan. 31\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/02_gallery_tom-hollander_truman-capote_0113_v3_wide-ea5789a790e05be688a3da3a4e3bc7d1a790e61c-scaled-e1704824696713.jpg\" alt=\"A refined man in a colorful 1970s-era suit sits before a fireplace. He is bald and wearing glasses.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Hollander as Truman Capote in ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.’ \u003ccite>(Pari Dukovic/FX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has taken Ryan Murphy nearly seven years to craft a successor to the first season of his \u003cem>Feud \u003c/em>anthology series, which debuted in 2017 with a take on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. This time, Murphy’s taking on author Truman Capote’s estrangement from a coterie of wealthy New York City socialites who were his gossipy friends — until he published stories widely recognized to be thinly-veiled accounts of their turbulent personal lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The White Lotus \u003c/em>alum Tom Hollander excellently reproduces the oddly-thin voice and cheeky mannerisms of mid-1960s-era Capote, who had already written \u003cem>Breakfast at Tiffany’s\u003c/em> and \u003cem>In Cold Blood\u003c/em>, but was desperate for a new literary triumph while drowning in addictions. With Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart and Chloë Sevigny on board, Murphy has packed his cast with big names who are sure to deliver big scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Still catching up on last year? Here’s a collection of \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/19/1215673946/best-movies-tv-2023\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>the best movies and TV of 2023, picked for you by NPR critics\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+best+TV+of+early+2024%3A+Here%27s+what+to+watch+in+January&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After two long strikes and the pandemic disruption, this is the year everything comes back — including a great ‘True Detective.‘","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705002916,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1422},"headData":{"title":"Best TV to Watch and Stream in January 2024 | KQED","description":"After two long strikes and the pandemic disruption, this is the year everything comes back — including a great ‘True Detective.‘","ogTitle":"The Best TV of Early 2024: Here's What to Watch in January","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"The Best TV of Early 2024: Here's What to Watch in January","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Best TV to Watch and Stream in January 2024 %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Chuck Zlotnick","nprImageAgency":"Marvel Studios","nprStoryId":"1223565525","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1223565525&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/09/1223565525/best-tv-2024-what-to-watch?ft=nprml&f=1223565525","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:29:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:29:32 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:29:32 -0500","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13940189/the-best-tv-of-early-2024-heres-what-to-watch-in-january","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This is the year everything comes back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the sentiment you can practically feel bursting from show business, as we start a new year freed from the shackles of two Hollywood strikes, easing away from compensation conflicts that threatened to hobble most of the country’s film and TV industry permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13939170","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Given everything that’s happened so far, it feels like a miracle to note that there are still a fair number of interesting, powerful and compelling TV shows headed our way in 2024 — from the return of one of the most creatively ambitious crime dramas in recent memory, now set in Alaska, to a Marvel series mostly shorn of superheroes that may demonstrate exactly how the MCU should do TV from now on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a list ticking off the best stuff coming to the small screen in the next few weeks. You can’t say you weren’t warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Echo\u003c/em>, Disney+, Jan. 9\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940191\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/echo-kingpin-and-maya-1_wide-6ef44d334c447f6e9657605de18910aab06c6a89-scaled-e1704823905895.jpe\" alt=\"An older white bald man sits across a table from a young woman of color in a leather jacket.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin and Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in Marvel Studios’ ‘Echo.’ \u003ccite>(Photo by Chuck Zlotnick/ © 2023 MARVEL.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I know. I’m the one who was optimistic enough to say that dud of a Nick Fury series \u003cem>Secret Invasion \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183516470/review-marvel-secret-invasion\">might be the answer to Marvel’s problems with streaming\u003c/a>. But it turns out, \u003cem>Echo\u003c/em>‘s violent, back-to-basics story, starring Alaqua Cox is just what the TV critic ordered.\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>Here, Cox plays Maya Lopez\u003cem>,\u003c/em> also known as Echo, a skilled fighter and gang leader who debuted in Disney+’s \u003cem>Hawkeye\u003c/em> series. And this story — in which Lopez is forced to revisit her past after learning Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin wanted her father killed — hearkens back to the heyday of Netflix’s \u003cem>Daredevil\u003c/em>-connected Marvel series, which mostly ditched flying people with capes for a more realistic, gritty style of action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez, like the actor who plays her, is Native American, was born deaf, and wears a prosthetic leg, breaking loads of barriers in representation through one powerful performance. She has to overcome a lot of assumptions and bridge a lot of different cultures while trying to discover exactly how she is going to make her former mentor pay for orchestrating the death of the person she loved most in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Criminal Record,\u003c/em> Apple TV+, Jan. 10\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940192\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/criminal_record_photo_010301_wide-3be7389a5fc2aab6666703a04ca9e097affced2a-scaled-e1704824067986.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man and younger Black woman talk in the street, near a British industrial estate.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo in ‘Criminal Record.’ \u003ccite>(Apple TV+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Featuring two of my favorite actors — \u003cem>The Good Wife/Good Fight\u003c/em> alum Cush Jumbo and former \u003cem>Doctor Who\u003c/em> star Peter Capaldi — this series explores in agonizing detail the effort by a young British police detective (Jumbo’s June Lenker) to learn if a police task force once led by Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty (a world-weary Capaldi) may have unfairly imprisoned a Black man years ago for murder. Along the way, we see Lenker forced to question her sensitivities to racism and sexism, while Hegarty fights to protect his legacy and his task force from accusations of corruption and prejudice. Best of all, there are no easy answers in this story, which delivers a delicious cat-and-mouse game between Lenker and Hegarty, with a surprising end.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>True Detective: Night Country, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>HBO and Max, Jan. 14\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4.jpe\" alt=\"Two female police officers stand side-by-side wearing large padded winter coats and shining flashlights into the distance.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4.jpe 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/true-detective-kali-reis-jodie-foster_wide-9d2c4fa997dd0fb15bbc714aaba03ed34e9895d4-1536x864.jpe 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kali Reis and Jodie Foster in ‘True Detective: Night Country.’ \u003ccite>(Michele K. Short/ HBO)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261412408/hbos-true-detective-brings-big-stars-to-tell-a-brutal-tale\">groundbreaking first season\u003c/a> in 2014 with movie stars Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Michelle Monaghan, this anthology cop drama has struggled to live up to its potential as a genre shattering, high-end TV show. Fortunately, the new season remedies that problem with a typically excellent Jodie Foster as an irascible chief of police Liz Danvers in remote Ennis, Alaska. She’s forced to partner with a state trooper she hates — Evangeline Navarro, an Indigenous woman played by Kali Reis — to solve a mysterious mass murder at a scientific research station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Series creator Nic Pizzolatto steps aside as showrunner for the first time, allowing Mexican producer and film director Issa Lopez to serve as showrunner, director, and lead writer — crafting a complex, enthralling story centered on women resisting abuse from men, Indigenous culture, mental health, mysticism and the odd things which can happen in a town shrouded by darkness for six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>After Midnight, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>CBS, Jan. 16\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2107px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e.jpe\" alt=\"A young woman with long blonde hair stands, wearing a suit, hand in one pocket, confidently looking towards the camera. She stands before a purple background.\" width=\"2107\" height=\"1185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e.jpe 2107w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-1536x864.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-2048x1152.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/after-midnight-tomlinson-2475955_0160b_wide-d32462aeddd0982d6aeba8d918593c8a65a3dc5e-1920x1080.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2107px) 100vw, 2107px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Taylor Tomlinson will host ‘After Midnight.’ \u003ccite>(Ramona Rosales/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Late night TV stands at a crossroads, with stars like James Corden fleeing the genre as young people increasingly lose interest. I’m not sure if hiring\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1212737800/heres-what-to-know-on-taylor-tomlinson-one-of-late-night-tvs-newest-hosts\"> youthful comic Taylor Tomlinson\u003c/a> to host a faux game show centered on internet culture will help any of that. But this program — a reboot of a former Comedy Central series called \u003cem>@midnight\u003c/em> that’s replacing Corden’s \u003cem>The Late Late Show\u003c/em> — might at least offer an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I write this, critics haven’t yet seen the rebooted show, which originally featured a trio of comics joking around while answering a series of questions about internet culture. With Stephen Colbert and Funny or Die among a lengthy list of executive producers, one thing is certain: they will have few excuses for not bringing the funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>American Nightmare, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Netflix, Jan. 17\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2045px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849.jpe\" alt=\"A young attractive man and woman stand close together and smiling outside a home.\" width=\"2045\" height=\"1150\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849.jpe 2045w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-1536x864.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/american-nightmare-1_wide-07db294622062f7b61a93ba9df739fb064625849-1920x1080.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2045px) 100vw, 2045px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins in ‘American Nightmare.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Netflix © 2023)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This three-episode docuseries is focused on a jarring story: When physical therapist Aaron Quinn called police with a bizarrely outlandish tale, claiming that someone had bound and drugged him and kidnapped his girlfriend Denise Huskins for ransom, the cops assumed what many would — that Quinn was lying to cover up something he had done. But the truth was much darker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Netflix docuseries briskly traces the evolution of Quinn’s story — including the re-appearance of Huskins a while later, seemingly unharmed — revealing the shocking, terrible consequences when a police department has unacceptable procedures for handling crimes involving relationships and gender violence, choosing easy explanations over believing potential victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Masters of the Air, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Apple TV+, Jan. 26\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/masters_of_the_air_photo_010105_wide-5742ca35308a4273bc30926c4db3f5d04f634d72-scaled-e1704824534167.jpg\" alt=\"Two 1940s-era pilots stand before a biplane and gaze skyward.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Callum Turner and Austin Butler in ‘Masters of the Air.’ \u003ccite>(Apple TV+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Between the two of them, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have given us a long list of films and TV shows centered on the valor of American soldiers in World War II. So it makes a certain kind of sense they would return as executive producers on this limited series, which is a kind of \u003cem>Band of Brothers \u003c/em>set in the Air Force, depicting the true stories of an American bomber group in the Great War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a well-produced, at times gorily explicit drama featuring Austin Butler, working a buttery accent only slightly downshifted from his \u003cem>Elvis \u003c/em>patois, playing an airman trying to stay alive as U.S. forces face staggering losses while bombing Nazi Germany. At a time when audiences are trying to sort out complicated geopolitical conflicts in real life, Spielberg and Hanks once again offer simpler stories from a time when America was more likely to be considered the unambiguous hero.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>FX, Jan. 31\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13940197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13940197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/02_gallery_tom-hollander_truman-capote_0113_v3_wide-ea5789a790e05be688a3da3a4e3bc7d1a790e61c-scaled-e1704824696713.jpg\" alt=\"A refined man in a colorful 1970s-era suit sits before a fireplace. He is bald and wearing glasses.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Hollander as Truman Capote in ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.’ \u003ccite>(Pari Dukovic/FX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has taken Ryan Murphy nearly seven years to craft a successor to the first season of his \u003cem>Feud \u003c/em>anthology series, which debuted in 2017 with a take on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. This time, Murphy’s taking on author Truman Capote’s estrangement from a coterie of wealthy New York City socialites who were his gossipy friends — until he published stories widely recognized to be thinly-veiled accounts of their turbulent personal lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The White Lotus \u003c/em>alum Tom Hollander excellently reproduces the oddly-thin voice and cheeky mannerisms of mid-1960s-era Capote, who had already written \u003cem>Breakfast at Tiffany’s\u003c/em> and \u003cem>In Cold Blood\u003c/em>, but was desperate for a new literary triumph while drowning in addictions. With Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart and Chloë Sevigny on board, Murphy has packed his cast with big names who are sure to deliver big scenes.\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>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Still catching up on last year? Here’s a collection of \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/19/1215673946/best-movies-tv-2023\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>the best movies and TV of 2023, picked for you by NPR critics\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+best+TV+of+early+2024%3A+Here%27s+what+to+watch+in+January&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13940189/the-best-tv-of-early-2024-heres-what-to-watch-in-january","authors":["92"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_9222","arts_8481","arts_3114","arts_8237","arts_8350","arts_20624","arts_3324","arts_585"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13940202","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13939991":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13939991","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13939991","score":null,"sort":[1704315101000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"first-pooh-now-mickey-steamboat-willie-will-star-in-two-new-horror-movies","title":"First Pooh, Now Mickey: ‘Steamboat Willie’ Will Star in Two New Horror Movies","publishDate":1704315101,"format":"standard","headTitle":"First Pooh, Now Mickey: ‘Steamboat Willie’ Will Star in Two New Horror Movies | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, barely three days in the public domain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slashed free of Disney’s copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzO--ox7X0\">\u003cem>Steamboat Willie\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is already the focus of two horror films. On Monday, just hours after the 1928 short entered the public domain, a trailer for \u003cem>Mickey’s Mouse Trap\u003c/em> dropped on YouTube. Another yet-to-be-titled film was announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[aside postid='arts_13914736']Steamboat Willie\u003c/em> featured early versions of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, it was the third cartoon featuring the duo they made but the first to be released. In it, a more menacing Mickey, bearing more resemblance to rat than mouse, captains a boat and makes musical instruments out of other animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s perhaps fitting, then, that the first projects announced are seemingly low-budget and campy slasher movies — and not unprecedented. Winnie the Pooh — sans red shirt — entered the public domain in 2022; scarcely a year later, he was notching up a heavy body count in the microbudget \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3E74j_xFtg\">\u003cem>Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the trailer for\u003cem> Mickey’s Mouse Trap\u003c/em>, directed by Jamie Bailey, what appears to be a human in a comically small Mickey mask terrorizes a group of young people at an arcade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A place for fun. A place for friends. A place for hunting,” text flashed during the trailer reads. “The mouse is out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_G3kp3_61c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just wanted to have fun with it all. I mean it’s \u003cem>Steamboat Willie\u003c/em>’s Mickey Mouse murdering people,” director Jamie Bailey said in a statement cited by trade publications. “It’s ridiculous. We ran with it and had fun doing it and I think it shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No release date has been set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second movie is from director Steven LaMorte, who previously directed a horror parody of \u003cem>The Grinch\u003c/em>, which is not in the public domain (the movie is thus called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylE1bMSf8Ck\">\u003cem>The Mean One\u003c/em>\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A late-night boat ride turns into a desperate fight for survival in New York City when a mischievous mouse becomes a monstrous reality,” is the logline for the untitled film, per a post on LaMorte’s Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13935838']“Steamboat Willie has brought joy to generations, but beneath that cheerful exterior lies a potential for pure, unhinged terror,” LaMorte said in a release cited by the trades. The movie has yet to begin production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the expiration of the 95-year copyright, the public is allowed to use only the initial versions of Mickey and Minnie — not the more familiar character designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will, of course, continue to protect our rights in the more modern versions of Mickey Mouse and other works that remain subject to copyright,” Disney said in a statement ahead of the characters entering the public domain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaMorte told \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> that the producers of his film are working with a legal team so as not to run afoul of Disney, and will call their raging rodent Steamboat Willie instead of Mickey Mouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing our due diligence to make sure there’s no question or confusion of what we’re up to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The trailer for low-budget slasher ‘Mickey’s Mouse Trap’ dropped just hours after the 1928 cartoon entered the public domain.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705002932,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":566},"headData":{"title":"First Pooh, Now Mickey: ‘Steamboat Willie’ Will Star in Two New Horror Movies | KQED","description":"The trailer for low-budget slasher ‘Mickey’s Mouse Trap’ dropped just hours after the 1928 cartoon entered the public domain.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Associated Press","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13939991/first-pooh-now-mickey-steamboat-willie-will-star-in-two-new-horror-movies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, barely three days in the public domain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slashed free of Disney’s copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzO--ox7X0\">\u003cem>Steamboat Willie\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is already the focus of two horror films. On Monday, just hours after the 1928 short entered the public domain, a trailer for \u003cem>Mickey’s Mouse Trap\u003c/em> dropped on YouTube. Another yet-to-be-titled film was announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13914736","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Steamboat Willie\u003c/em> featured early versions of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, it was the third cartoon featuring the duo they made but the first to be released. In it, a more menacing Mickey, bearing more resemblance to rat than mouse, captains a boat and makes musical instruments out of other animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s perhaps fitting, then, that the first projects announced are seemingly low-budget and campy slasher movies — and not unprecedented. Winnie the Pooh — sans red shirt — entered the public domain in 2022; scarcely a year later, he was notching up a heavy body count in the microbudget \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3E74j_xFtg\">\u003cem>Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the trailer for\u003cem> Mickey’s Mouse Trap\u003c/em>, directed by Jamie Bailey, what appears to be a human in a comically small Mickey mask terrorizes a group of young people at an arcade.\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>“A place for fun. A place for friends. A place for hunting,” text flashed during the trailer reads. “The mouse is out.”\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/u_G3kp3_61c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/u_G3kp3_61c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“We just wanted to have fun with it all. I mean it’s \u003cem>Steamboat Willie\u003c/em>’s Mickey Mouse murdering people,” director Jamie Bailey said in a statement cited by trade publications. “It’s ridiculous. We ran with it and had fun doing it and I think it shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No release date has been set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second movie is from director Steven LaMorte, who previously directed a horror parody of \u003cem>The Grinch\u003c/em>, which is not in the public domain (the movie is thus called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylE1bMSf8Ck\">\u003cem>The Mean One\u003c/em>\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A late-night boat ride turns into a desperate fight for survival in New York City when a mischievous mouse becomes a monstrous reality,” is the logline for the untitled film, per a post on LaMorte’s Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13935838","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Steamboat Willie has brought joy to generations, but beneath that cheerful exterior lies a potential for pure, unhinged terror,” LaMorte said in a release cited by the trades. The movie has yet to begin production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the expiration of the 95-year copyright, the public is allowed to use only the initial versions of Mickey and Minnie — not the more familiar character designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will, of course, continue to protect our rights in the more modern versions of Mickey Mouse and other works that remain subject to copyright,” Disney said in a statement ahead of the characters entering the public domain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaMorte told \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> that the producers of his film are working with a legal team so as not to run afoul of Disney, and will call their raging rodent Steamboat Willie instead of Mickey Mouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing our due diligence to make sure there’s no question or confusion of what we’re up to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13939991/first-pooh-now-mickey-steamboat-willie-will-star-in-two-new-horror-movies","authors":["byline_arts_13939991"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_4262","arts_8086","arts_3114","arts_5087"],"featImg":"arts_13939994","label":"arts"},"arts_13933731":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13933731","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13933731","score":null,"sort":[1692821730000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"star-wars-ahsoka-has-a-jedi-with-two-light-sabers-but-not-much-else-yet","title":"'Star Wars: Ahsoka' Has a Jedi With Two Light Sabers But Not Much Else. Yet.","publishDate":1692821730,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Star Wars: Ahsoka’ Has a Jedi With Two Light Sabers But Not Much Else. Yet. | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>If all you know about the \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> franchise is its feature films, you might not even be aware of who Ahsoka Tano is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that alone shouldn’t stop you from sampling her debut as a leading character in Disney+’s new streaming series, \u003cem>Star Wars: Ahsoka\u003c/em>. All you really need to know to jump into the story is that Ahsoka is a powerful warrior — with TWO lightsabers — skilled enough with the Force to beat up battle droids and make off with a map that just might lead to a major villain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before long, it’s obvious she’s set off on an adventure that will explore lots of heady stuff: How to move forward from past pain to make a new future. The towering responsibility of being a good mentor and a worthy apprentice. How to find the bad guys who want to resurrect the evil Empire and subjugate the galaxy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the biggest challenge \u003cem>Ahsoka\u003c/em> faces is simpler: How to build a new \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>series that longtime fans will love without leaving newcomers in the dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13933734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"A mixed race woman wearing a hooded cloak and white face paint stands, arms folded, looking off into the distance. A few feet away stands a petite Asian woman wearing a futuristic uniform and holding a helmet. She has short, cropped hair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-1536x864.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano and Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren. \u003ccite>(Disney+/ Lucasfilm Ltd. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Distracted by world building\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The series begins at a time when the Empire has fallen, the legendary Jedi Knights are dead or disbanded and Ahsoka herself is without the junior partner/mentee most Jedi have, called a padawan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosario Dawson plays Ahsoka with a steely calm which befits her status as an experienced warrior and rebel hero — but can also sap the energy from scenes when she’s not fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, when she needs to reconnect with a talented, stubborn fighter named Sabine Wren, who had been on track to become her padawan, Ahsoka is so stoic that her face and voice are barely expressive — even as she admits regret over the way Wren’s training ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes even the right reasons have the wrong consequences,” Ahsoka admits at the end of one dry scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of backstory, and exchanges like that highlight one big problem for \u003cem>Star Wars: Ahsoka: \u003c/em>it is trying to cram the knowledge accumulated by decades of world-building books, films and TV shows into a couple hours of TV. Creator Dave Filoni — considered a protégé of \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>creator George Lucas and the backbone of the TV shows — can fall into Lucas’ bad habit of getting too distracted by the world he’s building to make the narrative consistently compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_1EXWNETiI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahsoka first surfaced in the animated movie \u003cem>Star Wars: The Clone Wars\u003c/em>, as an aspiring padawan bringing a message to legendary Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and his own padawan, Anakin Skywalker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, she was also featured in the animated \u003cem>Clone Wars\u003c/em> TV series and \u003cem>Star Wars: Rebels\u003c/em>. Dawson brought her to the live-action world, playing her in an episode of \u003cem>The Mandalorian\u003c/em>, where she revealed the name of the character fans often call Baby Yoda was actually Grogu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> nerds have watched Ahsoka grow up onscreen, participating in pivotal moments to become a beloved character, for other fans who haven’t watched those series, she still needs a bit of an introduction. Watching Ahsoka eventually team with Wren and Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s green-skinned New Republic general, Hera Syndulla, brings hope this kinetic sisterhood will bring out more sides of the show’s starring character.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A great showcase for a departed character actor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This may explain the pacing of the first two episodes, which alternate flashy, lightsaber-wielding fights scenes with a few too many sluggish, talky moments. Fortunately, that does mean some great scenes for character actor Ray Stevenson — who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/movies/ray-stevenson-dead.html\">died earlier this year\u003c/a>, but excels as a skilled former Jedi-turned mercenary working for the villains. (the first episode ends with a simple dedication onscreen: “For our friend Ray.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13933735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"A white man with grey hair and beard stands in profile. Next to him is a petite white woman with white-blonde hair worn in a bob. She has sharp cheekbones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-1536x864.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Stevenson, who died in May, plays Baylan Skoll with Ivanna Sakho as Shin Hati. \u003ccite>(Disney+/ Lucasfilm Ltd. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One open question: In a flashback, will we see Ahsoka face the Jedi master who trained her — Anakin Skywalker, who eventually becomes Darth Vader?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with all those criticisms in mind, \u003cem>Ahsoka\u003c/em> is a series I’ll keep watching. Last year’s Disney+ series \u003cem>Star Wars: Andor\u003c/em> also started slowly before blossoming into one of the year’s best shows, so there’s still hope. But \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em> resonated with audiences by offering a persistently grounded narrative on the early days of the rebellion: no Jedi knights, mystical uses of The Force or lightsabers in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when audiences have thinning patience both for super-heroics and too much fan service, \u003cem>Ahsoka\u003c/em> will still need to raise its game to prove it’s more than wish fulfillment for longtime \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Star+Wars%3A+Ahsoka%27+has+a+Jedi+with+two+light+sabers+but+not+much+else.+Yet.&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"‘Andor’ started slowly before blossoming into one of the year's best shows, so maybe there's still hope for ‘Ashoka.’ ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005113,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":841},"headData":{"title":"‘Star Wars: Ashoka’ Review: Maybe It'll Start Slow, Then Improve? | KQED","description":"‘Andor’ started slowly before blossoming into one of the year's best shows, so maybe there's still hope for ‘Ashoka.’ ","ogTitle":"'Star Wars: Ahsoka' Has a Jedi With Two Light Sabers But Not Much Else. 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All you really need to know to jump into the story is that Ahsoka is a powerful warrior — with TWO lightsabers — skilled enough with the Force to beat up battle droids and make off with a map that just might lead to a major villain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before long, it’s obvious she’s set off on an adventure that will explore lots of heady stuff: How to move forward from past pain to make a new future. The towering responsibility of being a good mentor and a worthy apprentice. How to find the bad guys who want to resurrect the evil Empire and subjugate the galaxy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the biggest challenge \u003cem>Ahsoka\u003c/em> faces is simpler: How to build a new \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>series that longtime fans will love without leaving newcomers in the dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13933734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"A mixed race woman wearing a hooded cloak and white face paint stands, arms folded, looking off into the distance. A few feet away stands a petite Asian woman wearing a futuristic uniform and holding a helmet. She has short, cropped hair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759-1536x864.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-ahsoka-and-wren_wide-7a00c88449ebde4e5ca1ce01cd5bdbcf8054568b-scaled-e1692820513759.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano and Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren. \u003ccite>(Disney+/ Lucasfilm Ltd. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Distracted by world building\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The series begins at a time when the Empire has fallen, the legendary Jedi Knights are dead or disbanded and Ahsoka herself is without the junior partner/mentee most Jedi have, called a padawan.\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>Rosario Dawson plays Ahsoka with a steely calm which befits her status as an experienced warrior and rebel hero — but can also sap the energy from scenes when she’s not fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, when she needs to reconnect with a talented, stubborn fighter named Sabine Wren, who had been on track to become her padawan, Ahsoka is so stoic that her face and voice are barely expressive — even as she admits regret over the way Wren’s training ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes even the right reasons have the wrong consequences,” Ahsoka admits at the end of one dry scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of backstory, and exchanges like that highlight one big problem for \u003cem>Star Wars: Ahsoka: \u003c/em>it is trying to cram the knowledge accumulated by decades of world-building books, films and TV shows into a couple hours of TV. Creator Dave Filoni — considered a protégé of \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>creator George Lucas and the backbone of the TV shows — can fall into Lucas’ bad habit of getting too distracted by the world he’s building to make the narrative consistently compelling.\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/J_1EXWNETiI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/J_1EXWNETiI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Ahsoka first surfaced in the animated movie \u003cem>Star Wars: The Clone Wars\u003c/em>, as an aspiring padawan bringing a message to legendary Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and his own padawan, Anakin Skywalker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, she was also featured in the animated \u003cem>Clone Wars\u003c/em> TV series and \u003cem>Star Wars: Rebels\u003c/em>. Dawson brought her to the live-action world, playing her in an episode of \u003cem>The Mandalorian\u003c/em>, where she revealed the name of the character fans often call Baby Yoda was actually Grogu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> nerds have watched Ahsoka grow up onscreen, participating in pivotal moments to become a beloved character, for other fans who haven’t watched those series, she still needs a bit of an introduction. Watching Ahsoka eventually team with Wren and Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s green-skinned New Republic general, Hera Syndulla, brings hope this kinetic sisterhood will bring out more sides of the show’s starring character.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A great showcase for a departed character actor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This may explain the pacing of the first two episodes, which alternate flashy, lightsaber-wielding fights scenes with a few too many sluggish, talky moments. Fortunately, that does mean some great scenes for character actor Ray Stevenson — who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/movies/ray-stevenson-dead.html\">died earlier this year\u003c/a>, but excels as a skilled former Jedi-turned mercenary working for the villains. (the first episode ends with a simple dedication onscreen: “For our friend Ray.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13933735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"A white man with grey hair and beard stands in profile. Next to him is a petite white woman with white-blonde hair worn in a bob. She has sharp cheekbones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-800x450.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-160x90.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-768x432.jpe 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846-1536x864.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ahsoka-stevenson-and-padawan_wide-a043b9014e96dd2e0ace36b2375333bd00324676-scaled-e1692820765846.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Stevenson, who died in May, plays Baylan Skoll with Ivanna Sakho as Shin Hati. \u003ccite>(Disney+/ Lucasfilm Ltd. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One open question: In a flashback, will we see Ahsoka face the Jedi master who trained her — Anakin Skywalker, who eventually becomes Darth Vader?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with all those criticisms in mind, \u003cem>Ahsoka\u003c/em> is a series I’ll keep watching. Last year’s Disney+ series \u003cem>Star Wars: Andor\u003c/em> also started slowly before blossoming into one of the year’s best shows, so there’s still hope. But \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em> resonated with audiences by offering a persistently grounded narrative on the early days of the rebellion: no Jedi knights, mystical uses of The Force or lightsabers in sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when audiences have thinning patience both for super-heroics and too much fan service, \u003cem>Ahsoka\u003c/em> will still need to raise its game to prove it’s more than wish fulfillment for longtime \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Star+Wars%3A+Ahsoka%27+has+a+Jedi+with+two+light+sabers+but+not+much+else.+Yet.&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13933731/star-wars-ahsoka-has-a-jedi-with-two-light-sabers-but-not-much-else-yet","authors":["byline_arts_13933731"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_3114","arts_3797","arts_3241","arts_585"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13933732","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13931677":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13931677","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13931677","score":null,"sort":[1689370677000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"barbenheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-box-office-greta-gerwig-christopher-nolan","title":"The Story Behind Barbenheimer, the Summer’s Most Online Movie Showdown","publishDate":1689370677,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Story Behind Barbenheimer, the Summer’s Most Online Movie Showdown | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The very online showdown between Greta Gerwig’s \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and Christopher Nolan’s \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> all started with a date: July 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for studios to counterprogram films in different genres on a big weekend, but the stark differences between an intense, serious-minded picture about the man who oversaw the development of the atomic bomb and a lighthearted, candy-colored anthropomorphizing of a childhood doll quickly became the stuff of viral fodder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/paperssil/status/1677313645565427713\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even some disagreement over whether it’s “Barbieheimer” or “Barbenheimer” or “Boppenheimer” or yet another tortured portmanteau — a phenomenon on which the AP Stylebook has yet to offer guidance, but for the purposes of this article will be “Barbenheimer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt that both Nolan and Gerwig have very passionate and very online fandoms eager to join in. Never mind that many of those fans overlap — the memes, allegiances, and T-shirts were just too fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/stevereevesart/status/1678808000566530048\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/balumcarnes/status/1679397880753258500\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/alex_icon/status/1678969487469555712\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both movies often trend on social media when the other releases a new asset — a trailer, a picture, an interview. On one level, it’s a marketing department’s dream. Awareness could not be higher, the conversation couldn’t be louder, and neither film even has official reviews out yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Barbenheimer’ is a marketing gift borne out of social media and I think it’s benefiting both films,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for analytics firm Comscore. “You’re certainly aware of both movies in a more profound and compelling way than I think might have otherwise happened had they been released on different weekends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMC Theaters reported that 20,000 of its AMC Stubs members had purchased tickets for a double feature. If you’re counting, that’s 294 minutes of moviewatching. Even Margot Robbie — Barbie herself — and Tom Cruise, the star of another summer blockbuster, have started plotting the ideal “Barbenheimer” day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a perfect double bill,” said Robbie at her movie’s London premiere Wednesday. “I think actually start your day with \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em>, then go straight into \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> and then a \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> chaser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931577']Cruise — whose \u003cem>Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One\u003c/em> opened a little over a week before the “Barbenheimer” showdown — said at his premiere he’d plan to see both on their opening day, likely starting with \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, which seems to be the internet’s preferred viewing order as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> actor Issa Rae thinks there’s a reason for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there’s a very specific order that if you see them in. If you see \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> last then you might be a bit of a psychopath,” she diagnosed at the London premiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The showdown has made armchair marketing experts out of everyone, quick to scrutinize every move by Warner Bros. and Universal — as though it’s possible to compare two extraordinarily different campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One has infinite opportunities for very pink, sparkly photo opportunities, whimsical brand partnerships for seemingly everything from underwear to pool floats, large-scale fan events with autograph signings and pop stars like Billie Eilish posting about the soundtrack. In other words, the \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> campaign can go nuclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Cum6kABPqMl/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> has the bomb, the alluring mystery and the big screen hook, but it’s not the kind of movie that lends itself to, say, a frozen yogurt collaboration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is the competition real, though, or just a meme? Some in Hollywood wondered if Warner Bros. plopped \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> on the weekend as a slight to Nolan, who had opened many films for the studio in that corridor including \u003cem>Inception\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Dunkirk\u003c/em>. He left Warner Bros. amid its controversial decision to send a year’s worth of movies to streaming and made \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> with Universal instead. But a pointed box office war doesn’t exactly make sense for a studio that has talked recently about wanting to lure Nolan back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931227']There is an unspoken code of conduct: Never badmouth another studio’s film, publicly at least. This is partly decorum, especially when it comes to “box office showdowns” which all will say are a creation of the press and sideline spectators. But it’s also rooted in some truth: The conventional thinking is that having eyes on one movie is good for other movies — you see their posters and trailers and on some level everyone benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And social media has allowed movie stars to get in on the game, too. Following reports that Cruise was irked the latest \u003cem>Mission: Impossible\u003c/em> was going to lose its IMAX screens to \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> after only a week, Cruise posted photos of himself and director Christopher McQuarrie standing in front of posters for \u003cem>Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, holding tickets for each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This summer is full of amazing movies to see in theaters. These are just a few that we can’t wait to see on the big screen,” Cruise’s Instagram caption read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful blonde woman smiles in the sunshine on a red carpet, wearing a black strapless dress, long gloves and pearl necklace. Behind her is a pink and white Barbie logo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margot Robbie at the world premiere of ‘Barbie’ in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Eric Charbonneau/ Warner Bros. Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The official accounts for \u003cem>Indiana Jones\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> responded with supportive notes. Gerwig and Robbie even followed with a similar photo series a few days later, which the official \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> Instagram account reposted in its stories. Charged with playing Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy told the AP at his movie’s London premiere that “of course” he’d be seeing \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em>. The sporting cross-promotion between four studios — Universal, Warner Bros., Disney and Paramount — is something the film business has not quite seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is Tom Cruise the biggest box office star in the world, but he’s also an incredible ambassador for the movie theater, for the movie theater experience and boosting other movies,” Dergarabedian said. “And that collegial atmosphere within the framework of what is seen as the very competitive box office derby is kind of a nice thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, everyone likes a No. 1 debut, and both \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> reportedly carry $100 million production price tags (not including the millions spent on marketing). As far as box office tracking goes, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> has it in the bag with forecasts showing that it could open above $90 million in North America. \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> meanwhile is tracking in the $40 million range. Then there’s the wild card of \u003cem>Mission: Impossible 7\u003c/em>’s second weekend, which could snag second place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-800x514.png\" alt=\"A white man with chiseled features stands in an office hallway wearing a grey suit and tie and gazing off to one side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-800x514.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-1020x656.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-768x494.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-1536x987.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM.png 1652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cillian Murphy, starring in ‘Oppenheimer.’ \u003ccite>(Syncopy/ Universal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still even with a second- or third-place start, \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> could be destined for a long, steady, profitable run into awards season. Adult audiences for R-rated movies are not often the ones who pack theaters the first weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13931287']Back in 2008, in the midst of the recession, Warner Bros. and Universal faced off on the same July weekend with another Nolan film that went up against a lighthearted confection: \u003cem>The Dark Knight\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Mamma Mia!\u003c/em> — both of which went on to be enormously profitable (though Nolan did win the first weekend).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger worry is that what’s been heralded as Hollywood’s post-pandemic comeback summer has had more ups and downs than anyone might have hoped. That’s putting quite a bit of pressure on “Barbenheimer” to overperform and boost the lagging summer box office, which pales in comparison to the bigger issues facing the industry as actors join the writers on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with just over a week to go, it’s still a source of amusement. Even \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> co-star Will Ferrell threw the gauntlet in his winking way at the London premiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the world maybe wants to see \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> a little bit more right now,” Ferrell said. “Just saying!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2023 Associated Press. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" rel=\"noopener\">visit AP\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Memes, artwork, fake trailers and merch featuring ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ mashups are everywhere right now.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005269,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1404},"headData":{"title":"Barbenheimer and the Box Office Battle of the Summer | KQED","description":"Memes, artwork, fake trailers and merch featuring ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ mashups are everywhere right now.","ogTitle":"The Story Behind Barbenheimer, the Summer’s Most Online Movie Showdown","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"The Story Behind Barbenheimer, the Summer’s Most Online Movie Showdown","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Barbenheimer and the Box Office Battle of the Summer %%page%% %%sep%% KQED"},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Lindsey Bahr","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13931677/barbenheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-box-office-greta-gerwig-christopher-nolan","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The very online showdown between Greta Gerwig’s \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and Christopher Nolan’s \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> all started with a date: July 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon for studios to counterprogram films in different genres on a big weekend, but the stark differences between an intense, serious-minded picture about the man who oversaw the development of the atomic bomb and a lighthearted, candy-colored anthropomorphizing of a childhood doll quickly became the stuff of viral fodder.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1677313645565427713"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>There’s even some disagreement over whether it’s “Barbieheimer” or “Barbenheimer” or “Boppenheimer” or yet another tortured portmanteau — a phenomenon on which the AP Stylebook has yet to offer guidance, but for the purposes of this article will be “Barbenheimer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt that both Nolan and Gerwig have very passionate and very online fandoms eager to join in. Never mind that many of those fans overlap — the memes, allegiances, and T-shirts were just too fun.\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>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1678808000566530048"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1679397880753258500"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1678969487469555712"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Both movies often trend on social media when the other releases a new asset — a trailer, a picture, an interview. On one level, it’s a marketing department’s dream. Awareness could not be higher, the conversation couldn’t be louder, and neither film even has official reviews out yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Barbenheimer’ is a marketing gift borne out of social media and I think it’s benefiting both films,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for analytics firm Comscore. “You’re certainly aware of both movies in a more profound and compelling way than I think might have otherwise happened had they been released on different weekends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMC Theaters reported that 20,000 of its AMC Stubs members had purchased tickets for a double feature. If you’re counting, that’s 294 minutes of moviewatching. Even Margot Robbie — Barbie herself — and Tom Cruise, the star of another summer blockbuster, have started plotting the ideal “Barbenheimer” day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a perfect double bill,” said Robbie at her movie’s London premiere Wednesday. “I think actually start your day with \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em>, then go straight into \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> and then a \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> chaser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13931577","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cruise — whose \u003cem>Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One\u003c/em> opened a little over a week before the “Barbenheimer” showdown — said at his premiere he’d plan to see both on their opening day, likely starting with \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, which seems to be the internet’s preferred viewing order as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> actor Issa Rae thinks there’s a reason for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there’s a very specific order that if you see them in. If you see \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> last then you might be a bit of a psychopath,” she diagnosed at the London premiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The showdown has made armchair marketing experts out of everyone, quick to scrutinize every move by Warner Bros. and Universal — as though it’s possible to compare two extraordinarily different campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One has infinite opportunities for very pink, sparkly photo opportunities, whimsical brand partnerships for seemingly everything from underwear to pool floats, large-scale fan events with autograph signings and pop stars like Billie Eilish posting about the soundtrack. In other words, the \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> campaign can go nuclear.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"Cum6kABPqMl"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> has the bomb, the alluring mystery and the big screen hook, but it’s not the kind of movie that lends itself to, say, a frozen yogurt collaboration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is the competition real, though, or just a meme? Some in Hollywood wondered if Warner Bros. plopped \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> on the weekend as a slight to Nolan, who had opened many films for the studio in that corridor including \u003cem>Inception\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Dunkirk\u003c/em>. He left Warner Bros. amid its controversial decision to send a year’s worth of movies to streaming and made \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> with Universal instead. But a pointed box office war doesn’t exactly make sense for a studio that has talked recently about wanting to lure Nolan back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13931227","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There is an unspoken code of conduct: Never badmouth another studio’s film, publicly at least. This is partly decorum, especially when it comes to “box office showdowns” which all will say are a creation of the press and sideline spectators. But it’s also rooted in some truth: The conventional thinking is that having eyes on one movie is good for other movies — you see their posters and trailers and on some level everyone benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And social media has allowed movie stars to get in on the game, too. Following reports that Cruise was irked the latest \u003cem>Mission: Impossible\u003c/em> was going to lose its IMAX screens to \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> after only a week, Cruise posted photos of himself and director Christopher McQuarrie standing in front of posters for \u003cem>Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, holding tickets for each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This summer is full of amazing movies to see in theaters. These are just a few that we can’t wait to see on the big screen,” Cruise’s Instagram caption read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful blonde woman smiles in the sunshine on a red carpet, wearing a black strapless dress, long gloves and pearl necklace. Behind her is a pink and white Barbie logo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/ER3_1530-scaled-e1689369223843.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margot Robbie at the world premiere of ‘Barbie’ in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Eric Charbonneau/ Warner Bros. Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The official accounts for \u003cem>Indiana Jones\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> responded with supportive notes. Gerwig and Robbie even followed with a similar photo series a few days later, which the official \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> Instagram account reposted in its stories. Charged with playing Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy told the AP at his movie’s London premiere that “of course” he’d be seeing \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em>. The sporting cross-promotion between four studios — Universal, Warner Bros., Disney and Paramount — is something the film business has not quite seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is Tom Cruise the biggest box office star in the world, but he’s also an incredible ambassador for the movie theater, for the movie theater experience and boosting other movies,” Dergarabedian said. “And that collegial atmosphere within the framework of what is seen as the very competitive box office derby is kind of a nice thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, everyone likes a No. 1 debut, and both \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> reportedly carry $100 million production price tags (not including the millions spent on marketing). As far as box office tracking goes, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> has it in the bag with forecasts showing that it could open above $90 million in North America. \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> meanwhile is tracking in the $40 million range. Then there’s the wild card of \u003cem>Mission: Impossible 7\u003c/em>’s second weekend, which could snag second place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-800x514.png\" alt=\"A white man with chiseled features stands in an office hallway wearing a grey suit and tie and gazing off to one side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-800x514.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-1020x656.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-768x494.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM-1536x987.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/CM.png 1652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cillian Murphy, starring in ‘Oppenheimer.’ \u003ccite>(Syncopy/ Universal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still even with a second- or third-place start, \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> could be destined for a long, steady, profitable run into awards season. Adult audiences for R-rated movies are not often the ones who pack theaters the first weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13931287","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Back in 2008, in the midst of the recession, Warner Bros. and Universal faced off on the same July weekend with another Nolan film that went up against a lighthearted confection: \u003cem>The Dark Knight\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Mamma Mia!\u003c/em> — both of which went on to be enormously profitable (though Nolan did win the first weekend).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger worry is that what’s been heralded as Hollywood’s post-pandemic comeback summer has had more ups and downs than anyone might have hoped. That’s putting quite a bit of pressure on “Barbenheimer” to overperform and boost the lagging summer box office, which pales in comparison to the bigger issues facing the industry as actors join the writers on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with just over a week to go, it’s still a source of amusement. Even \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> co-star Will Ferrell threw the gauntlet in his winking way at the London premiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the world maybe wants to see \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> a little bit more right now,” Ferrell said. “Just saying!”\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>Copyright 2023 Associated Press. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" rel=\"noopener\">visit AP\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13931677/barbenheimer-barbie-oppenheimer-box-office-greta-gerwig-christopher-nolan","authors":["byline_arts_13931677"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_14639","arts_3114","arts_977","arts_3410","arts_21156","arts_5422"],"featImg":"arts_13931688","label":"arts"},"arts_13923988":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13923988","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13923988","score":null,"sort":[1674500988000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"disney-worlds-splash-mountain-runs-dry-as-the-famous-ride-closes-for-good","title":"Disney World’s Splash Mountain Runs Dry, as the Famous Ride Closes for Good","publishDate":1674500988,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Disney World’s Splash Mountain Runs Dry, as the Famous Ride Closes for Good | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Fans had one final run down Splash Mountain in Florida’s Disney World on Sunday, before it closed for good. It had been in operation since 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renovations on Splash Mountain, which many fans consider a Disney staple, began on Monday. Disney announced in June 2020 that it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/25/883507841/disney-announces-redesign-of-splash-mountain-after-some-call-ride-themes-racist\">planning to reimagine\u003c/a> the ride after growing complaints due to its associations with the 1946 film \u003cem>Song of the South,\u003c/em> namely a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-re-theme-splash-mountain-to-princess-and-the-frog?recruiter=683574212&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&recruited_by_id=f9543170-f5e1-11e6-a5d0-b5e95c874c8a\">Change.org petition\u003c/a> with over 21,000 signatures stating that the ride is “steeped in extremely problematic and stereotypical racist tropes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909983']The Splash Mountain at California’s Disneyland, which opened in 1989, is also slated to close soon, though the specific date has not yet been announced. Both of the rides will reopen as \u003ca href=\"https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2022/07/tianas-bayou-adventure-coming-to-disney-parks-in-late-2024/\">Tiana’s Bayou Adventure\u003c/a> — featuring Disney’s first Black princess — in late 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statements around the redesign have not mentioned the version of the ride in Japan, which also launched in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, fans of Splash Mountain waited upwards of three hours to take their final run, and wait times had been higher than average for the past month, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrill-data.com/waits/attraction/magic-kingdom/splashmountain/\">Thrill Data\u003c/a>. Some fans expressed disapproval of the ride’s closure and \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/everyone-to-save-splash-mountain-and-keep-it-as-it-is-in-magic-kingdom-and-disneyland\">started a petition\u003c/a> to save the ride, to no avail. Splash Mountain has already been removed from Disney World’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy over Splash Mountain stemmed from the movie it was based on. \u003cem>Song of the South\u003c/em> is set on a Georgia plantation after the Civil War and depicts what the NAACP in 1946 called an “\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20200615192050/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90871/Song-of-the-South/notes.html\">idyllic master-slave relationship which is a distortion of the facts.\u003c/a>” Its characters appeared as animatronics in Splash Mountain, which also featured songs from the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13910308']The new ride will be based on \u003cem>The Princess and the Frog\u003c/em>, the 2009 animated \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121353041\">film that debuted Tiana, the first Black Disney princess\u003c/a>. In 2020, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that \u003cem>Song of the South \u003c/em>would not be available for streaming on Disney Plus and that the movie is “\u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2020/03/bob-iger-song-of-the-south-disney-disclaimer-1202879464/\">not appropriate in today’s world.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redesign is a continuation of Disney’s “longstanding history of updating attractions and adding new magic,” according to the \u003ca href=\"https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2020/06/new-adventures-with-princess-tiana-coming-to-disneyland-park-and-magic-kingdom-park/\">original announcement\u003c/a>, and the new ride will be “one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 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=Disney+World%27s+Splash+Mountain+runs+dry%2C+as+the+iconic+ride+closes+for+good&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Controversy surrounded the ride, based on the 1946 film ‘Song of the South’ and its racist themes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005950,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":432},"headData":{"title":"Disney World’s Splash Mountain Runs Dry, as the Famous Ride Closes for Good | KQED","description":"Controversy surrounded the ride, based on the 1946 film ‘Song of the South’ and its racist themes.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Kaitlyn Radde","nprImageAgency":"Bryan R. 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It had been in operation since 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renovations on Splash Mountain, which many fans consider a Disney staple, began on Monday. Disney announced in June 2020 that it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/25/883507841/disney-announces-redesign-of-splash-mountain-after-some-call-ride-themes-racist\">planning to reimagine\u003c/a> the ride after growing complaints due to its associations with the 1946 film \u003cem>Song of the South,\u003c/em> namely a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-re-theme-splash-mountain-to-princess-and-the-frog?recruiter=683574212&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&recruited_by_id=f9543170-f5e1-11e6-a5d0-b5e95c874c8a\">Change.org petition\u003c/a> with over 21,000 signatures stating that the ride is “steeped in extremely problematic and stereotypical racist tropes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13909983","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Splash Mountain at California’s Disneyland, which opened in 1989, is also slated to close soon, though the specific date has not yet been announced. Both of the rides will reopen as \u003ca href=\"https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2022/07/tianas-bayou-adventure-coming-to-disney-parks-in-late-2024/\">Tiana’s Bayou Adventure\u003c/a> — featuring Disney’s first Black princess — in late 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statements around the redesign have not mentioned the version of the ride in Japan, which also launched in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, fans of Splash Mountain waited upwards of three hours to take their final run, and wait times had been higher than average for the past month, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrill-data.com/waits/attraction/magic-kingdom/splashmountain/\">Thrill Data\u003c/a>. Some fans expressed disapproval of the ride’s closure and \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/everyone-to-save-splash-mountain-and-keep-it-as-it-is-in-magic-kingdom-and-disneyland\">started a petition\u003c/a> to save the ride, to no avail. Splash Mountain has already been removed from Disney World’s website.\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>The controversy over Splash Mountain stemmed from the movie it was based on. \u003cem>Song of the South\u003c/em> is set on a Georgia plantation after the Civil War and depicts what the NAACP in 1946 called an “\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20200615192050/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90871/Song-of-the-South/notes.html\">idyllic master-slave relationship which is a distortion of the facts.\u003c/a>” Its characters appeared as animatronics in Splash Mountain, which also featured songs from the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13910308","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The new ride will be based on \u003cem>The Princess and the Frog\u003c/em>, the 2009 animated \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121353041\">film that debuted Tiana, the first Black Disney princess\u003c/a>. In 2020, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that \u003cem>Song of the South \u003c/em>would not be available for streaming on Disney Plus and that the movie is “\u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2020/03/bob-iger-song-of-the-south-disney-disclaimer-1202879464/\">not appropriate in today’s world.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redesign is a continuation of Disney’s “longstanding history of updating attractions and adding new magic,” according to the \u003ca href=\"https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2020/06/new-adventures-with-princess-tiana-coming-to-disneyland-park-and-magic-kingdom-park/\">original announcement\u003c/a>, and the new ride will be “one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 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=Disney+World%27s+Splash+Mountain+runs+dry%2C+as+the+iconic+ride+closes+for+good&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13923988/disney-worlds-splash-mountain-runs-dry-as-the-famous-ride-closes-for-good","authors":["byline_arts_13923988"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_3114","arts_3652"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13923989","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13921929":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13921929","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13921929","score":null,"sort":[1669229517000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"andor-soared-it-was-about-the-force-not-the-force-of-the-star-wars-universe","title":"‘Andor’ Soared — It Was About the Force, not ‘The Force’, of the Star Wars Universe","publishDate":1669229517,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Andor’ Soared — It Was About the Force, not ‘The Force’, of the Star Wars Universe | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This article contains spoilers about the season finale of \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Andor\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one corner of the \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> galaxy, you’ve got the eeeeevil Sith Lord, Emperor Sheev Palpatine, crackling with Force-lighting as he fries Jedi Master Mace Windu to a crisp, screaming “POWAH! UNLIMITED POWAAAAAH!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And over in another corner — the much grubbier and lower-profile one depicted on season one of Disney+’s \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>— you’ve got the bootlicking, low-level, fascist toady Syril Karn, standing at attention while he nervously answers his supervisor’s question about whether he’s modified his uniform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perhaps slightly,” he says. “Pockets, piping. Some light tailoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years separate those two events, and they exist on different orders of magnitude. The Emperor and all his cackling and crackling belong to the mythic, the macro \u003cem>Star War\u003c/em>s — the Joseph-Campbell-hero’s-quest of George Lucas’ original vision, which combined sprawling space-opera with the high adventure of Saturday movie serials — narrow escapes, thrilling stunts and hiss-worthy villains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over on \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em>, you’ve got villains like Syril Karn. They’re not exactly hiss-worthy, these pathetic, feckless strivers. Their constant angling for recognition and advancement, to say nothing of their obsession with the aesthetics of fascism (Piping! Light tailoring!), makes them more eyeroll-worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is exactly why \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>works as freshly, singularly and powerfully as it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOegEuCcfw\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Force with a lowercase “f”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Karn and his colleagues are dedicated to the cause of fascist oppression (which they’re careful to refer to only as “order”) with a zeal that isn’t remotely macro. It isn’t mythic, religious or even passionate. Instead, they’re driven by institutional imperatives that scour their souls free of empathy, compassion and understanding, and reward them for ruthlessness, cruelty and — above all — efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’s the showrunner here, Hannah Arendt? Because as we watched season one of \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>play out in a series of mini-arcs across its 12 episodes, we saw the inner workings of the Empire. It’s \u003cem>The Banality of Evil: The Series\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13920462']The \u003cem>Star War\u003c/em>s films showed us an Empire that was Evil because it destroyed planets and chased down our doughty heroes. Sure, there were always gray-uniformed Space Nazis milling around in the background, and the few who got speaking roles — Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin, for example — were possessed of the cold cunning of a Saturday serial villain, to contrast with the implacable menace of Vader and the over-the-top mustache-twirling of the Emperor. They were all of a piece, larger than life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fascistic functionaries of \u003cem>Andor —\u003c/em> Syril Karn, Dedra Mero, Major Partagaz, Lieutenant Supervisor Blevins, and others — are cogs. Willing, dedicated cogs who relish the machine they’re a part of, even if they each believe they could be of more use somewhere else in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is The Force, and there is force — blunt, brutal and dehumanizing. In \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em>, again and again, we watched the latter variety exert its dispassionate influence, not on entire planets, but on individual lives. The public display of Andor’s father’s corpse. Andor’s arrest, and six-year-no-but-really-forever sentence for loitering. The exploitive, endless labor of Narkina 5. The appallingly chipper, matter-of-fact torture of Bix. The cumulative result was wrenching and personal and inevitably, eerily, relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As was the season’s portrait of resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>walked so Luke could Skywalk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> films argue that a galaxy can be saved from tyranny by a handful of heroes — and, yes, a succession of easily exploited design flaws in space stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>showed the growing discontent and anger that gives rise to heroes. In many different ways, for their own individual reasons, the characters of \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>decide to rise up and fight, because totalitarianism is an unnatural state; it breeds resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13889379']“The more you tighten your grip,” Princess Leia told Tarkin in \u003cem>Star Wars: A New Hope,\u003c/em> “the more star systems are going to slip through your fingers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em>, we watch as that grip tightens around places like Ferrix and Aldhani and Narkina 5 and Coruscant. We watch people we care about get crushed. But we also watch others slip through. Yes, lives get lost, and compromises get made — that’s what Luthen’s monologue in episode 10 is all about, the harrowing loneliness of the freedom fighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>shows us that the Empire’s downfall is and always was inevitable, Skywalker or no Skywalker. It’s baked in, the inescapable result of the system’s utter disregard for the humanity of the people it seeks to exploit and control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Anakin was right about sand\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Let’s be real, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s another reason, besides the satisfying clarity of its focus on the individual, that \u003cem>Andor’\u003c/em>s first season set itself apart. Back in 1977, on his aunt and uncle’s Tatooine moisture farm, we all watched Luke Skywalker inform C-3PO, “If there’s a bright center of the universe, you’re on the planet it’s farthest from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This turned out to be a lie. For several reasons — most especially the unhealthy infatuation with nostalgia/fan service that continues to dog the franchise — the \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>powers-that-be keep booking us passage back to that same, damn featureless sand-planet. Even the otherwise excellent \u003cem>The Mandalorian\u003c/em>, which mostly traffics in the same interplanetary ground-level action \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>does, couldn’t resist the siren song of Tatooine’s Krayt dragons and Tusken Raiders. (And despite a first season that managed to step out of the shadow of what had gone before, the gravitational pull of Jedi temples and lightsabers also proved too strong for \u003cem>The Mandalorian\u003c/em> to escape.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13903607']Looking forward to the second and final season of \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em>, we know a few things. Mon Mothma is gonna get exposed and go on the run (look for her daughter to betray her). Cassian has to meet K-2SO. Karn and Mero’s wildly dysfunctional, jackbooted \u003cem>folie-a-deux\u003c/em> will maybe see them \u003cem>a-deuxing\u003c/em> each other. (Personally, Karn’s infatuation with Mero seems more wrapped up with his demented obsession with authority than anything purely sexual; see above, in re: “Pockets. Piping. Some light tailoring.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at least some of our favorite gray- or white-suited Imperial apparatchiks are gonna end up on the Death Star as it meets its fateful finish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That much we know. This much we can only hope:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That it all will take place as far away from %##*&! Tatooine as possible.\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=%27Andor%27+soared+%E2%80%94+it+was+about+the+force%2C+not+The+Force%2C+of+the+Star+Wars+universe+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"No lightsabers, no Jedi, no Tatooine: ‘Andor’ ditched familiar ‘Star Wars’ trappings to document the face of fascism.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006131,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1186},"headData":{"title":"‘Andor’ Soared — It Was About the Force, not ‘The Force’, of the Star Wars Universe | KQED","description":"No lightsabers, no Jedi, no Tatooine: ‘Andor’ ditched familiar ‘Star Wars’ trappings to document the face of fascism.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Glen Weldon","nprImageAgency":"Lucasfilm Ltd.","nprStoryId":"1137826237","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1137826237&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/23/1137826237/star-wars-andor-finale?ft=nprml&f=1137826237","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:00:16 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:00:16 -0500","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13921929/andor-soared-it-was-about-the-force-not-the-force-of-the-star-wars-universe","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This article contains spoilers about the season finale of \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Andor\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one corner of the \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> galaxy, you’ve got the eeeeevil Sith Lord, Emperor Sheev Palpatine, crackling with Force-lighting as he fries Jedi Master Mace Windu to a crisp, screaming “POWAH! UNLIMITED POWAAAAAH!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And over in another corner — the much grubbier and lower-profile one depicted on season one of Disney+’s \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>— you’ve got the bootlicking, low-level, fascist toady Syril Karn, standing at attention while he nervously answers his supervisor’s question about whether he’s modified his uniform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perhaps slightly,” he says. “Pockets, piping. Some light tailoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years separate those two events, and they exist on different orders of magnitude. The Emperor and all his cackling and crackling belong to the mythic, the macro \u003cem>Star War\u003c/em>s — the Joseph-Campbell-hero’s-quest of George Lucas’ original vision, which combined sprawling space-opera with the high adventure of Saturday movie serials — narrow escapes, thrilling stunts and hiss-worthy villains.\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>But over on \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em>, you’ve got villains like Syril Karn. They’re not exactly hiss-worthy, these pathetic, feckless strivers. Their constant angling for recognition and advancement, to say nothing of their obsession with the aesthetics of fascism (Piping! Light tailoring!), makes them more eyeroll-worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is exactly why \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>works as freshly, singularly and powerfully as it does.\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/cKOegEuCcfw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/cKOegEuCcfw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Force with a lowercase “f”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Karn and his colleagues are dedicated to the cause of fascist oppression (which they’re careful to refer to only as “order”) with a zeal that isn’t remotely macro. It isn’t mythic, religious or even passionate. Instead, they’re driven by institutional imperatives that scour their souls free of empathy, compassion and understanding, and reward them for ruthlessness, cruelty and — above all — efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’s the showrunner here, Hannah Arendt? Because as we watched season one of \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>play out in a series of mini-arcs across its 12 episodes, we saw the inner workings of the Empire. It’s \u003cem>The Banality of Evil: The Series\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13920462","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003cem>Star War\u003c/em>s films showed us an Empire that was Evil because it destroyed planets and chased down our doughty heroes. Sure, there were always gray-uniformed Space Nazis milling around in the background, and the few who got speaking roles — Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin, for example — were possessed of the cold cunning of a Saturday serial villain, to contrast with the implacable menace of Vader and the over-the-top mustache-twirling of the Emperor. They were all of a piece, larger than life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fascistic functionaries of \u003cem>Andor —\u003c/em> Syril Karn, Dedra Mero, Major Partagaz, Lieutenant Supervisor Blevins, and others — are cogs. Willing, dedicated cogs who relish the machine they’re a part of, even if they each believe they could be of more use somewhere else in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is The Force, and there is force — blunt, brutal and dehumanizing. In \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em>, again and again, we watched the latter variety exert its dispassionate influence, not on entire planets, but on individual lives. The public display of Andor’s father’s corpse. Andor’s arrest, and six-year-no-but-really-forever sentence for loitering. The exploitive, endless labor of Narkina 5. The appallingly chipper, matter-of-fact torture of Bix. The cumulative result was wrenching and personal and inevitably, eerily, relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As was the season’s portrait of resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>walked so Luke could Skywalk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> films argue that a galaxy can be saved from tyranny by a handful of heroes — and, yes, a succession of easily exploited design flaws in space stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>showed the growing discontent and anger that gives rise to heroes. In many different ways, for their own individual reasons, the characters of \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>decide to rise up and fight, because totalitarianism is an unnatural state; it breeds resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13889379","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The more you tighten your grip,” Princess Leia told Tarkin in \u003cem>Star Wars: A New Hope,\u003c/em> “the more star systems are going to slip through your fingers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em>, we watch as that grip tightens around places like Ferrix and Aldhani and Narkina 5 and Coruscant. We watch people we care about get crushed. But we also watch others slip through. Yes, lives get lost, and compromises get made — that’s what Luthen’s monologue in episode 10 is all about, the harrowing loneliness of the freedom fighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>shows us that the Empire’s downfall is and always was inevitable, Skywalker or no Skywalker. It’s baked in, the inescapable result of the system’s utter disregard for the humanity of the people it seeks to exploit and control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Anakin was right about sand\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Let’s be real, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s another reason, besides the satisfying clarity of its focus on the individual, that \u003cem>Andor’\u003c/em>s first season set itself apart. Back in 1977, on his aunt and uncle’s Tatooine moisture farm, we all watched Luke Skywalker inform C-3PO, “If there’s a bright center of the universe, you’re on the planet it’s farthest from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This turned out to be a lie. For several reasons — most especially the unhealthy infatuation with nostalgia/fan service that continues to dog the franchise — the \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>powers-that-be keep booking us passage back to that same, damn featureless sand-planet. Even the otherwise excellent \u003cem>The Mandalorian\u003c/em>, which mostly traffics in the same interplanetary ground-level action \u003cem>Andor \u003c/em>does, couldn’t resist the siren song of Tatooine’s Krayt dragons and Tusken Raiders. (And despite a first season that managed to step out of the shadow of what had gone before, the gravitational pull of Jedi temples and lightsabers also proved too strong for \u003cem>The Mandalorian\u003c/em> to escape.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13903607","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Looking forward to the second and final season of \u003cem>Andor\u003c/em>, we know a few things. Mon Mothma is gonna get exposed and go on the run (look for her daughter to betray her). Cassian has to meet K-2SO. Karn and Mero’s wildly dysfunctional, jackbooted \u003cem>folie-a-deux\u003c/em> will maybe see them \u003cem>a-deuxing\u003c/em> each other. (Personally, Karn’s infatuation with Mero seems more wrapped up with his demented obsession with authority than anything purely sexual; see above, in re: “Pockets. Piping. Some light tailoring.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at least some of our favorite gray- or white-suited Imperial apparatchiks are gonna end up on the Death Star as it meets its fateful finish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That much we know. This much we can only hope:\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>That it all will take place as far away from %##*&! Tatooine as possible.\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=%27Andor%27+soared+%E2%80%94+it+was+about+the+force%2C+not+The+Force%2C+of+the+Star+Wars+universe+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13921929/andor-soared-it-was-about-the-force-not-the-force-of-the-star-wars-universe","authors":["byline_arts_13921929"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_3114","arts_3797","arts_3241"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13921930","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13919105":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13919105","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13919105","score":null,"sort":[1663178727000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"halle-baileys-little-mermaid-is-already-making-waves-among-young-black-girls","title":"Halle Bailey's 'Little Mermaid' is Already Making Waves Among Young Black Girls","publishDate":1663178727,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Halle Bailey’s ‘Little Mermaid’ is Already Making Waves Among Young Black Girls | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Following the teaser \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-wPm99PF9U\">trailer for the live-action version\u003c/a> of Disney’s \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>, parents of young Black girls are posting videos across social media of their children’s reactions to seeing Halle Bailey as Ariel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanna watch it!” a girl says in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@adeliachai2/video/7141549155868036395?_r=1&_t=8VdBrIBXh5W&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7141549155868036395\">video \u003c/a>posted by TikTok user Adelia Chaiyakul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@adeliachai2/video/7141549155868036395\" data-video-id=\"7141549155868036395\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@adeliachai2\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@adeliachai2?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@adeliachai2\u003c/a> Showing my daughter The Little Mermaid Teaser Trailer \u003ca title=\"fyp\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#fyp\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"littlemermaid\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/littlemermaid?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#littlemermaid\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"hallebailey\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/hallebailey?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#hallebailey\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"disney\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/disney?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#disney\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brownskingirl\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brownskingirl?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#brownskingirl\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"thelittlemermaid\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/thelittlemermaid?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thelittlemermaid\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ The Little Mermaid: Part of Your World - Geek Music\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/The-Little-Mermaid-Part-of-Your-World-6891415531383949313?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ The Little Mermaid: Part of Your World – Geek Music\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Mommy! … She’s brown like me!” says a girl in another TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@nickyknackpaddywack/video/7142138063504969006\" data-video-id=\"7142138063504969006\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@nickyknackpaddywack\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@nickyknackpaddywack?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@nickyknackpaddywack\u003c/a> Mayas reaction to \u003ca title=\"thelittlemermaid\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/thelittlemermaid?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thelittlemermaid\u003c/a> trailer. \u003ca title=\"representationmatters\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/representationmatters?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#representationmatters\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"representationinthemediamatters\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/representationinthemediamatters?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#representationinthemediamatters\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"blackgirls\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/blackgirls?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#blackgirls\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Nicky\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7142138065312582442?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Nicky\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Many similar videos have been shared across social media since the teaser trailer was released on Friday, with hashtags such as #representationmatters and #Blackgirlmagic. The trailer has surpassed 12 million views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney first unveiled a sneak peek of its live-action adaptation of the 1989 animated film at its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122224622/disney-disenchanted-little-mermaid-movie-trailers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D23 Expo\u003c/a>. In the video, fans get a brief look at Bailey, an actress and singer from the R&B duo Chloe x Halle, playing the lead role of Ariel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Bailey, the film features actor Daveed Diggs as the voice of Sebastian, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Javier Bardem as Triton, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, and Awkwafina as Scuttle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914736']In an \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/film/features/halle-bailey-the-little-mermaid-interview-backlash-ariel-1235336668/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Bailey, 22, addressed the backlash towards her casting in the lead role. Some on social media have used the hashtag #NotMyAriel to say that casting a Black actress goes against the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, which was originally published in Denmark in 1837. In the wake of that, Bailey said that her grandparents offered her some perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an inspiring and beautiful thing to hear their words of encouragement, telling me, ‘You don’t understand what this is doing for us, for our community, for all the little Black and brown girls who are going to see themselves in you,'” Bailey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the little girl in me and the little girls just like me who are watching to know that they’re special and that they should be a princess in every single way,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/HalleBailey/status/1569455744046747648\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original animated 1989 film tells the story of a young mermaid, Ariel, who falls in love with a human prince. In order to win him over, she makes a deal with a sea witch named Ursula to become a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Little Mermaid is set to be released in theaters on May 26, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Social media has been filled with videos of Black children watching the teaser of the trailer for the new 'Little Mermaid.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006383,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":453},"headData":{"title":"Halle Bailey's 'Little Mermaid' is Already Making Waves Among Young Black Girls | KQED","description":"Social media has been filled with videos of Black children watching the teaser of the trailer for the new 'Little Mermaid.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Jonathan Franklin","nprImageAgency":"Screenshot by NPR/Walt Disney Studios","nprStoryId":"1122806029","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1122806029&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/14/1122806029/halle-bailey-little-mermaid-black-culture?ft=nprml&f=1122806029","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:14:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:00:15 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:14:49 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13919105/halle-baileys-little-mermaid-is-already-making-waves-among-young-black-girls","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Following the teaser \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-wPm99PF9U\">trailer for the live-action version\u003c/a> of Disney’s \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>, parents of young Black girls are posting videos across social media of their children’s reactions to seeing Halle Bailey as Ariel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanna watch it!” a girl says in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@adeliachai2/video/7141549155868036395?_r=1&_t=8VdBrIBXh5W&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7141549155868036395\">video \u003c/a>posted by TikTok user Adelia Chaiyakul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@adeliachai2/video/7141549155868036395\" data-video-id=\"7141549155868036395\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@adeliachai2\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@adeliachai2?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@adeliachai2\u003c/a> Showing my daughter The Little Mermaid Teaser Trailer \u003ca title=\"fyp\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#fyp\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"littlemermaid\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/littlemermaid?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#littlemermaid\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"hallebailey\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/hallebailey?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#hallebailey\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"disney\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/disney?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#disney\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brownskingirl\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brownskingirl?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#brownskingirl\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"thelittlemermaid\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/thelittlemermaid?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thelittlemermaid\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ The Little Mermaid: Part of Your World - Geek Music\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/The-Little-Mermaid-Part-of-Your-World-6891415531383949313?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ The Little Mermaid: Part of Your World – Geek Music\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"tiktok","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Mommy! … She’s brown like me!” says a girl in another TikTok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@nickyknackpaddywack/video/7142138063504969006\" data-video-id=\"7142138063504969006\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@nickyknackpaddywack\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@nickyknackpaddywack?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@nickyknackpaddywack\u003c/a> Mayas reaction to \u003ca title=\"thelittlemermaid\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/thelittlemermaid?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thelittlemermaid\u003c/a> trailer. \u003ca title=\"representationmatters\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/representationmatters?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#representationmatters\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"representationinthemediamatters\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/representationinthemediamatters?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#representationinthemediamatters\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"blackgirls\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/blackgirls?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#blackgirls\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Nicky\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7142138065312582442?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Nicky\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"tiktok","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Many similar videos have been shared across social media since the teaser trailer was released on Friday, with hashtags such as #representationmatters and #Blackgirlmagic. The trailer has surpassed 12 million views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney first unveiled a sneak peek of its live-action adaptation of the 1989 animated film at its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122224622/disney-disenchanted-little-mermaid-movie-trailers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D23 Expo\u003c/a>. In the video, fans get a brief look at Bailey, an actress and singer from the R&B duo Chloe x Halle, playing the lead role of Ariel.\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>In addition to Bailey, the film features actor Daveed Diggs as the voice of Sebastian, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Javier Bardem as Triton, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, and Awkwafina as Scuttle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13914736","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/film/features/halle-bailey-the-little-mermaid-interview-backlash-ariel-1235336668/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Bailey, 22, addressed the backlash towards her casting in the lead role. Some on social media have used the hashtag #NotMyAriel to say that casting a Black actress goes against the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, which was originally published in Denmark in 1837. In the wake of that, Bailey said that her grandparents offered her some perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an inspiring and beautiful thing to hear their words of encouragement, telling me, ‘You don’t understand what this is doing for us, for our community, for all the little Black and brown girls who are going to see themselves in you,'” Bailey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the little girl in me and the little girls just like me who are watching to know that they’re special and that they should be a princess in every single way,” she added.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1569455744046747648"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The original animated 1989 film tells the story of a young mermaid, Ariel, who falls in love with a human prince. In order to win him over, she makes a deal with a sea witch named Ursula to become a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Little Mermaid is set to be released in theaters on May 26, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13919105/halle-baileys-little-mermaid-is-already-making-waves-among-young-black-girls","authors":["byline_arts_13919105"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_3114"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13919106","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13914736":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13914736","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13914736","score":null,"sort":[1655147611000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"yes-im-a-disney-adult-let-me-explain","title":"Yes, I'm a Disney Adult. Let Me Explain","publishDate":1655147611,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Yes, I’m a Disney Adult. Let Me Explain | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Hi. My name is Aisha, and I’m a Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I’m not like those other Disney Adults out there—I’m a \u003cem>cool \u003c/em>Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve certainly never\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> thrown a wedding\u003c/a> where I made my guests figure out their own way of getting fed during the reception, because my partner and I chose to spend the thousands of dollars our parents budgeted for catering on guest appearances by Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Could never be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(My partner \u003cem>did \u003c/em>propose to me while we were in Disney World celebrating my 30th birthday. That’s cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have absolutely zero interest in living in a residential community\u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/real-estate/disney-residential-storyliving-community-cotino-coachella-valley-1235095311/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> owned by Disney\u003c/a> and staffed with Disney cast members—what fresh \u003cem>Twilight Zone\u003c/em> hell might that turn out to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Still, I \u003cem>do \u003c/em>have Disney playlists in my regular rotation for working background music, and yes, I know every lyric to “Thomas O’Malley Cat” from \u003cem>The Aristocats\u003c/em>. I’m still cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would never refer to my partner as my “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CelyiLZLHa2/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disney prince\u003c/a>“—yech!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(But we \u003cem>do\u003c/em> watch Disney movies old and new together, and have seen \u003cem>Aladdin\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Frozen\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>The Lion King \u003c/em>on Broadway. In case you’re wondering, we have no children, and emphatically don’t want them. We’re still cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_112074']Fandom is a weird thing. It’s a state of being where at least a bit of fantasy inherently comes into play regardless of the medium, and the internet, with its memes and Tumblr pages and interest groups, has only made this more obvious while giving us myriad new ways to demonstrate being a fan. It’s also interesting to witness the ever-morphing hierarchies of fandom within the cultural zeitgeist, and what’s considered cool to obsess over and what’s not. Comic book nerds, for example, once a niche population and the butt of jokes, have more or less swallowed mainstream popular culture as a whole, thanks to the Marvelization of … well, everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past week emphasized how not all fandoms are treated equally, thanks to a viral “Am I the Asshole” Reddit post that may or may not be a true story. In case you’re unfamiliar with “AITA,” as it’s called, it’s the judgy gift that keeps on giving, a popular Reddit subhead where users post their personal conundrums and then ask the rest of the world to decide whether they were in the wrong or right. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This particularly chaotic post\u003c/a> about the couple who chose Mickey and Minnie over feeding their guests sparked the snarkiest wave of derision on the fandom known as “Disney Adults,” understandably. Tweets like “We need to study the\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EJpineapplSLICE/status/1533910536403959809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> minds of Disney adults\u003c/a> like we do serial killers” and “I’ve said it once, I’ll say it now, and I’ll say it 100 more times.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BaileyCarlin/status/1533809376489881600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Disney adults are the absolute worst people\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Way harsh, Tai.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse was the well-intentioned religious studies professor who swooped in to defend my ilk with\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeichlerlevine/status/1533909820453142530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a thread\u003c/a> that basically boiled down to “Don’t pathologize these people; to them this is like religion, except instead of worshipping hypothetical gods, they worship a corporate entity!” Twitter went into overdrive, swarming upon and devouring this professor’s infantilizing thread as if they were the hyenas descending upon Scar. The responses were golden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t actually care if people make fun of Disney Adults. A lot of the jokes are actually pretty funny. It’s a weird, quirky thing to re-watch \u003cem>Lady and the Tramp \u003c/em>every so often once you surpass the age of, say, 12! I own that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883519']On the other hand, I find the\u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/woman-who-cried-while-meeting-goofy-interview-2022-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> intense vitriol\u003c/a>—not the jokes, but the suggestions this is on par with religion or a cult—to be more than a bit confounding. From where I stand, Disney Adults don’t appear to be the kind of fandom that cares much about what others think about us, or the things we like. I don’t see them enacting massive doxing campaigns against anyone who dares say a bad word about \u003cem>Encanto\u003c/em>, like fans of certain pop stars or superhero movies. Maybe it’s because I’m a cool Disney Adult and don’t run in those circles? I don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of it seems to stem from an understandable disdain for Disney as a corporate monopoly, and all the negatives that have come from that. (For one: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085130633/disney-response-florida-bill-dont-say-gay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The company’s position as financially beholden to political groups that are actively trying to strip basic human rights\u003c/a>.) I agree with those critics; no one brand should have all this power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger component, though, is probably Disney’s “wholesome” and child-friendly image, which has been meticulously ingrained in the public imagination since the brand’s inception. Despite owning everything under the sun, from \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>to Marvel to the Muppets to Pixar, the Disney brand remains lodged in people’s minds as nothing more than that iconographic image of Tinker Bell tapping Cinderella’s castle with her wand. To say something has been “Disneyfied” is dismissive shorthand for watered-down, chaste, safe, conservative. The company does plenty of things to project this fluffy image (ahem, that very hyped “exclusively gay” moment that turned out to just be\u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/heres-the-exclusively-gay-moment-in-beauty-and-the-beast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a couple seconds\u003c/a> of two guys dancing together), so I get it. I can see how it seems like the equivalent of continuing to enjoy \u003cem>Blue’s Clues \u003c/em>even after you’ve reached 5th grade—to like a product ostensibly targeted at kids is to somehow exist in a state of arrested development and be disconnected from reality, so the thinking goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which I say: All fiction requires the audience to disconnect from reality! That’s the point! Also, have you seen \u003cem>Pinocchio \u003c/em>recently? That entire Pleasure Island sequence is like a PG-rated precursor to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Fritz the Cat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the term “Disney Adult” suggests it’s something of an oxymoron, an incongruous identity—we don’t go around calling people Muppet Grown-Ups or Mature \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>fans, even as these fantastical franchises also appeal to people of all ages. \u003cem>Sigh.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97638']What it all boils down to is this: The Disney products we associate with princesses and talking animal sidekicks and musicals will never be “cool,” even as they’ve become the blueprint for cultural commodification in nearly every corner of western culture for nearly a century. And that’s fine! On the social ladder of pop culture fandom, Disney Adults are the theater kids. (Yes, in case you were wondering, I was a theater kid, too. A cool one, though.) We’re passionate—some a little too much so—and have a tendency to burst out into song at unexpected moments. We like to rank villains and princes, and drop way too much money for the chance to ride Space Mountain. We are an acquired taste. Just like every other cult–er, fandom.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay first appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations on what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">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=Yes%2C+I%27m+a+Disney+Adult.+Let+me+explain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Backlash against Disney Adults reveals a lot about the ever-morphing hierarchies of fandom within the cultural zeitgeist.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006738,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1297},"headData":{"title":"Yes, I'm a Disney Adult. 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My name is Aisha, and I’m a Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I’m not like those other Disney Adults out there—I’m a \u003cem>cool \u003c/em>Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve certainly never\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> thrown a wedding\u003c/a> where I made my guests figure out their own way of getting fed during the reception, because my partner and I chose to spend the thousands of dollars our parents budgeted for catering on guest appearances by Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Could never be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(My partner \u003cem>did \u003c/em>propose to me while we were in Disney World celebrating my 30th birthday. That’s cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have absolutely zero interest in living in a residential community\u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/real-estate/disney-residential-storyliving-community-cotino-coachella-valley-1235095311/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> owned by Disney\u003c/a> and staffed with Disney cast members—what fresh \u003cem>Twilight Zone\u003c/em> hell might that turn out to be?\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>(Still, I \u003cem>do \u003c/em>have Disney playlists in my regular rotation for working background music, and yes, I know every lyric to “Thomas O’Malley Cat” from \u003cem>The Aristocats\u003c/em>. I’m still cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would never refer to my partner as my “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CelyiLZLHa2/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disney prince\u003c/a>“—yech!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(But we \u003cem>do\u003c/em> watch Disney movies old and new together, and have seen \u003cem>Aladdin\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Frozen\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>The Lion King \u003c/em>on Broadway. In case you’re wondering, we have no children, and emphatically don’t want them. We’re still cool, though.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_112074","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fandom is a weird thing. It’s a state of being where at least a bit of fantasy inherently comes into play regardless of the medium, and the internet, with its memes and Tumblr pages and interest groups, has only made this more obvious while giving us myriad new ways to demonstrate being a fan. It’s also interesting to witness the ever-morphing hierarchies of fandom within the cultural zeitgeist, and what’s considered cool to obsess over and what’s not. Comic book nerds, for example, once a niche population and the butt of jokes, have more or less swallowed mainstream popular culture as a whole, thanks to the Marvelization of … well, everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past week emphasized how not all fandoms are treated equally, thanks to a viral “Am I the Asshole” Reddit post that may or may not be a true story. In case you’re unfamiliar with “AITA,” as it’s called, it’s the judgy gift that keeps on giving, a popular Reddit subhead where users post their personal conundrums and then ask the rest of the world to decide whether they were in the wrong or right. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This particularly chaotic post\u003c/a> about the couple who chose Mickey and Minnie over feeding their guests sparked the snarkiest wave of derision on the fandom known as “Disney Adults,” understandably. Tweets like “We need to study the\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EJpineapplSLICE/status/1533910536403959809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> minds of Disney adults\u003c/a> like we do serial killers” and “I’ve said it once, I’ll say it now, and I’ll say it 100 more times.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BaileyCarlin/status/1533809376489881600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Disney adults are the absolute worst people\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Way harsh, Tai.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse was the well-intentioned religious studies professor who swooped in to defend my ilk with\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeichlerlevine/status/1533909820453142530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a thread\u003c/a> that basically boiled down to “Don’t pathologize these people; to them this is like religion, except instead of worshipping hypothetical gods, they worship a corporate entity!” Twitter went into overdrive, swarming upon and devouring this professor’s infantilizing thread as if they were the hyenas descending upon Scar. The responses were golden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t actually care if people make fun of Disney Adults. A lot of the jokes are actually pretty funny. It’s a weird, quirky thing to re-watch \u003cem>Lady and the Tramp \u003c/em>every so often once you surpass the age of, say, 12! I own that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13883519","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On the other hand, I find the\u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/woman-who-cried-while-meeting-goofy-interview-2022-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> intense vitriol\u003c/a>—not the jokes, but the suggestions this is on par with religion or a cult—to be more than a bit confounding. From where I stand, Disney Adults don’t appear to be the kind of fandom that cares much about what others think about us, or the things we like. I don’t see them enacting massive doxing campaigns against anyone who dares say a bad word about \u003cem>Encanto\u003c/em>, like fans of certain pop stars or superhero movies. Maybe it’s because I’m a cool Disney Adult and don’t run in those circles? I don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of it seems to stem from an understandable disdain for Disney as a corporate monopoly, and all the negatives that have come from that. (For one: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085130633/disney-response-florida-bill-dont-say-gay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The company’s position as financially beholden to political groups that are actively trying to strip basic human rights\u003c/a>.) I agree with those critics; no one brand should have all this power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger component, though, is probably Disney’s “wholesome” and child-friendly image, which has been meticulously ingrained in the public imagination since the brand’s inception. Despite owning everything under the sun, from \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>to Marvel to the Muppets to Pixar, the Disney brand remains lodged in people’s minds as nothing more than that iconographic image of Tinker Bell tapping Cinderella’s castle with her wand. To say something has been “Disneyfied” is dismissive shorthand for watered-down, chaste, safe, conservative. The company does plenty of things to project this fluffy image (ahem, that very hyped “exclusively gay” moment that turned out to just be\u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/heres-the-exclusively-gay-moment-in-beauty-and-the-beast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a couple seconds\u003c/a> of two guys dancing together), so I get it. I can see how it seems like the equivalent of continuing to enjoy \u003cem>Blue’s Clues \u003c/em>even after you’ve reached 5th grade—to like a product ostensibly targeted at kids is to somehow exist in a state of arrested development and be disconnected from reality, so the thinking goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which I say: All fiction requires the audience to disconnect from reality! That’s the point! Also, have you seen \u003cem>Pinocchio \u003c/em>recently? That entire Pleasure Island sequence is like a PG-rated precursor to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Fritz the Cat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the term “Disney Adult” suggests it’s something of an oxymoron, an incongruous identity—we don’t go around calling people Muppet Grown-Ups or Mature \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>fans, even as these fantastical franchises also appeal to people of all ages. \u003cem>Sigh.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_97638","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>What it all boils down to is this: The Disney products we associate with princesses and talking animal sidekicks and musicals will never be “cool,” even as they’ve become the blueprint for cultural commodification in nearly every corner of western culture for nearly a century. And that’s fine! On the social ladder of pop culture fandom, Disney Adults are the theater kids. (Yes, in case you were wondering, I was a theater kid, too. A cool one, though.) We’re passionate—some a little too much so—and have a tendency to burst out into song at unexpected moments. We like to rank villains and princes, and drop way too much money for the chance to ride Space Mountain. We are an acquired taste. Just like every other cult–er, fandom.\u003c/p>\n\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>\u003cem>This essay first appeared in NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletter/pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sign up for the newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get weekly recommendations on what’s making us happy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">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=Yes%2C+I%27m+a+Disney+Adult.+Let+me+explain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13914736/yes-im-a-disney-adult-let-me-explain","authors":["byline_arts_13914736"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_3114","arts_3570","arts_3797","arts_3241"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13914737","label":"arts_137"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. 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