In times like these, a good dystopian hellscape is hard to find. OK, that statement does sound like nonsense at first: from The Handmaid’s Tale sweeping the Emmy awards, to the ungodly sums being shoveled towards projects like Netflix’s Altered Carbon and Amazon’s Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, to the ever-expanding relevance of Black Mirror — not to mention, you know, reality — dystopian hellscapes are plentiful. Many of them are beautifully crafted, profound, and haunting — but damn, if current depressing conditions aren’t making them harder and harder to watch. As I’ve written before about The Handmaid’s Tale, the genre’s most affecting stories have always been highly concentrated, discrete doses of horror. Drag on too long,…
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