On critiques of entertainment.

New contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf joins Alex and George to talk about the history of media critique and contemporary cases.

• How does consensus-age comedy like King of the Hill deal with hyperpolitics today?

• Is the reliance on archetypes a problem, or inherent to all comedy?

• Why is Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death still relevant?

• Is the Gen X critique of 'couch potatoes' and TV-watching similar to today's techlash?

• Have we become insensible to contradiction?

Links:

• We’re still distracting ourselves to death, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd 

• King of the Hill reboot is ill-suited to the Trump age, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd