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On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the gabbers discuss Disney’s new animated movie, Zootopia. What did they make of its troubling central metaphor? Next up, Willa Paskin joins to gab about WGN’s Underground: a new series about slavery and the underground railroad. Is it trying too hard to make us binge-watch? Finally, the gabbers debate the recent unmasking of artist Banksy’s and author Elena Ferrante’s identities. Should these cultural icons have a right to privacy?
Links to some of the things we discussed this week follow:
- Miss Potter: the movie about Beatrix Potter starring Renée Zellweger
- The book Where the Wild Things Are
- Pixar’s Inside Out
- Other critically acclaimed WGN shows such as Manhattan and Outsiders
- The movies Schindler’s List, Ocean’s Eleven, and 12 Years a Slave
- The TV shows Scandal, Mad Men, and The Sopranos
- The Zardulu episode of the podcast Reply All
- Banksy’s movie Exit Through the Gift Shop
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Endorsements:
Laura: Season 2 of Happy Valley
Steve: “Inside Jacobin: How a Socialist Magazine Is Winning the Left’s War of Ideas” by Dylan Matthews in Vox
Julia: The new show The Dinosaurs Among Us at the American Museum of Natural History
Outro: “Bananafishbones” by the Cure
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