Horror writer G. Emerald, who has a background in the medical system, joins us to talk about the healing power of stories that leave us with a bad taste in our mouths. Audiences like happy endings, but do we really need every story to end on a high note? Are we being pacified? Why did the Hays Code require movies to have uplifting endings? Do happy endings sublimate the revolutionary energy that we should be putting into activism instead? Why are horror fans handling the pandemic better? What does it mean to have a Cronenberg day? Why is KA Applegate the Chad to JK Rowling’s Virgin TERF? We also touch upon Apocalypse hunks, the inevitability of death, and the nightmare that is the human body.
The Bitter Medicine of Unhappy Endings
The Bitter Medicine of Unhappy Endings
The Bitter Medicine of Unhappy Endings
Horror writer G. Emerald, who has a background in the medical system, joins us to talk about the healing power of stories that leave us with a bad taste in our mouths. Audiences like happy endings, but do we really need every story to end on a high note? Are we being pacified? Why did the Hays Code require movies to have uplifting endings? Do happy endings sublimate the revolutionary energy that we should be putting into activism instead? Why are horror fans handling the pandemic better? What does it mean to have a Cronenberg day? Why is KA Applegate the Chad to JK Rowling’s Virgin TERF? We also touch upon Apocalypse hunks, the inevitability of death, and the nightmare that is the human body.