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Better Worlds Theory
Better Worlds Theory
What's Really Haunting All Our Secular and Spiritual Lives?
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What's Really Haunting All Our Secular and Spiritual Lives?

On a TV show that explores the human through-line in competing cosmologies

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Jul 23, 2024
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One of the most interesting TV creator arcs this century might be the transition of a wife-and-husband writing team from The Good Wife (a legal procedural shaped around a politician’s wife recovering from the humiliation of her husband’s affair), to The Good Fight (a spin-off legal drama that became the site of absurdist reflections on the rise of MAGA …

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