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Say what you will about our president — at least he doesn’t eat cats.
Actress Anne Schedeen, best known for playing Kate Tanner on the 1980s sitcom “Alf,” died this week at 77. The news likely stirred fond memories with Gen X fans, but news of her passing featured a very 21st-century nugget.
‘[Supergirl] doesn’t live inside the binary of what we think a woman should be, that is what makes it so special and so exciting and so new.’
News outlets reported her passing, complete with a family statement lovingly remembering the mother, wife, aunt, and sister for her wit, creativity, and all-consuming obsession with our current president.
She leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of creative energy, whip-smart humor, delight in her family, adoration for little dogs, burning hatred for Trump, passion for secondhand thrifting, and love for a good story.
Wait … what?
Now, we’re used to stars like Robert De Niro slagging President Trump in every third sentence, but why would any family insist the press share their loved one’s political views in an obituary?
When “Alf’s” adopted parent is against Trump, you know the walls are closing in …
Silly Milly
For all we know, “Supergirl” star Milly Alcock may have the acting chops to be the next Meryl Streep. But for now she seems determined to be the next Rachel Zegler.
Zegler infamously helped crush her “Snow White” reboot with a series of silly, alienating press interviews. She wasn’t solely to blame for the film’s box-office pratfall, but she didn’t inspire audiences to flock to her film.
She became a case study for how not to market a movie. Now, it’s Alcock’s turn.
First, she whined about male viewers judging her as part of the “Game of Thrones” prequel series “House of the Dragon.” Later, she doubled down on that sentiment, singling out Christians in the process.
Now? She’s describing Supergirl as gender-fluid, or something.
“I’ve played a few characters that might have a potential queer through-line. I have many queer friends. So honestly, I’m kind of honored.”
Make it make sense. Alcock tries. Sort of.
“[Supergirl] doesn’t live inside the binary of what we think a woman should be. That is what makes it so special and so exciting and so new.”
Apparently, one of Supergirl’s superpowers is time-traveling back to 2020, the peak woke era …
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Card sharp
We all know Whoopi Goldberg can play the race card like few others. Yet when Vice President JD Vance confronted her on the issue, she folded like a deck of, well, cards.
Later in the week, when a sane person like Vance wasn’t around, she went right back to her … black-and-white thinking.
Goldberg brought up the world champion New York Knicks and the team’s White House rendezvous, which led to this on-brand exchange from the “Sister Act” alum.
“I want all those black men to stand in our house and remind all of those people, as we tried to remind the vice president, that when you try to destroy one part of history, you are destroying all of our histories.”
Goldberg sure talks tough when someone with a functioning cortex isn’t on the panel…
‘Powers’ boost
“No, baby, no!”
The world’s sexiest spy, albeit with the worst teeth, is heading back to theaters. So says Mike Myers, the mischievous mind behind “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.”
The character headlined the 1997 comedy smash, and he came back for two diminishing sequels. We haven’t heard much from Myers over the past decade. He has disappeared into smaller character roles, like the record executive in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Now, he’s threatening a fourth Austin Powers adventure.
Delayed sequels have a choppy history. “Zoolander 2” proved to be a disaster. “Anchorman 2” scored with audiences, but it couldn’t capture the original film’s glory. “Happy Gilmore 2” was pure nostalgia, little else. And the less said about “Blues Brothers 2000,” the better.
Myers looks rather youthful at 63, but some things are better left in the past. But if Austin could strike a death blow to the dying woke mind virus, maybe the time is right for a man whose middle name remains “Danger” …
Man with the tan
He’s been gone for about a month, but he remains his same insufferable self.
Stephen Colbert showed up at the opening of President Barack Obama’s Death Star, er, presidential center. And the former late-night host wore a tan suit to honor the man in question. Remember the media’s narrative that Obama’s tan suit moment proved his only real scandal?
That’s true … if you overlook the Russia collusion hoax, the Obamacare “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it” bait and switch, and the IRS’ targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status.
It’s all fodder for a great political satirist, which explains why Colbert didn’t go near any of the above.
Never change, Colbert. Never change.
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The pro-life movement won Roe — so why is it losing the war?
The overturning of Roe v. Wade was supposed to be the pro-life movement’s greatest victory. Instead, abortion pills have become increasingly accessible, and abortions rates have skyrocketed.
BlazeTV host Steve Deace is well aware why that is.
“We’re having this big debate right now within our pro-life circles about how to proceed moving forward. And somehow we’ve been exceedingly stalled,” Deace says, pointing out that “nothing of significance” has happened in the pro-life movement since the overturning of Roe.
“Not only that, since we overturned Roe, basically every mailbox can have an abortion pill in America right now. Right? So something has clearly and systemically gone wrong,” he continues.
“We pulled off D-Day, but now we’re losing the war,” he adds.
One of the main reasons why the pro-life movement has stalled, Deace explains, is there is a “deep division over a particular tactic, and it’s the question of abolition as it’s called in some places.”
“My buddy Seth Gruber calls it equal protection, and it’s the idea that if you commit a murder, you should be held accountable as we hold people accountable for committing any other form of murder. And the mainstream pro-life movement is adamantly against this,” he explains.
“The biggest source of opposition to this in the mainstream pro-life side, frankly, is they just don’t think it’s politically viable, and it’ll get us nuked,” he adds.
However, Deace doesn’t think they truly believe in their mainstream pro-life beliefs.
“I don’t believe very many mainstream pro-life leaders truly believe in a second generation of third-wave feminism, there’s just a bunch of scared girls who don’t know what to do, like my mom 50 years ago before we saw what, you know, thermal imaging inside of the womb looked like,” he explains, noting that they’re making “political calculations.”
However, there has to be political calculations.
“We’re human beings in a fallen world,” he says, before giving his solution.
“We’re going to ban all the abortions except your so-called exceptions. Are you in? Not because we agree that there’s exceptions to murder, but we’re going to call forth a false objection. We’re going to call a bluff,” he explains.
“We’ll even let the doctor determine if it’s an exception or not. Think they’d still take the deal? No. And why won’t they take the deal?” he asks, adding, “Because they want to kill them all.”
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Britain is paying the price for years of woke ideology
When 18-year-old student Henry Nowak was fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa, a British Sikh, a horrific local crime quickly escalated to international headlines due to a catastrophic law enforcement failure.
Spurred by Digwa’s false accusation of racism, responding officers immediately handcuffed the mortally wounded teenager, even as he told them nine times that he could not breathe and four times that he had been stabbed. That Nowak was arrested and treated as a criminal while taking his final breaths has shocked and appalled the United Kingdom.
British institutions have traded the safety of their citizens for wokeness.
Bodycam footage of his harrowing final minutes also caught the attention of the U.S. government. The State Department warned on X that “ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline that must be rejected across the West.”
Two-tier policing refers to the public perception that British law enforcement operates under a double standard — treating suspects, victims, and protesters differently based on race, religion, or political ideology.
The roots of this bias lie in the policies established by the College of Policing (the official national body that sets training standards) and the National Police Chiefs’ Council, which coordinates operational policy across all 44 U.K. police forces. These two bodies introduced the highly controversial and censorious “Non-Crime Hate Incidents,” which legally requires British officers to log and investigate citizens for lawful speech if anyone perceives it as motivated by hostility — even when no actual crime has been committed.
In May 2022, in the aftermath of the global George Floyd protests, the College of Policing and the NPCC launched the Race Action Plan, explicitly designed to embed anti-racist training across the entire justice system. The plan’s 2025 update codified an even more racialized doctrine.
Official guidance now states that a commitment to racial equity “does not mean treating everyone ‘the same’ or being ‘colour blind.’” By abandoning equality before the law, the policy instructs British police to treat individuals differently based on their race in an attempt to engineer equal outcomes. With law enforcement having absorbed this radical ideology, officers have become selective enforcers of justice, failing to intervene for fear of being labeled racist.
This is not a fringe theory. A new survey by the research group More in Common found that one-third of Britons now believe police actively favor ethnic minorities over white people. The chronic mishandling of the Nowak case provides further evidence of a system that despises the majority of its own citizens.
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Governed by an anti-racism doctrine, British institutions have traded the safety of their citizens for wokeness. The fatal cost of this ideological capture was laid bare in 2023 when Valdo Calocane slaughtered three people in Nottingham. He should not have been free.
Psychiatric professionals had repeatedly refused to section the psychotically violent Calocane, citing concerns about the “disproportionate overrepresentation of young black males in detention.” Captive to the progressive view that any statistical disparity constitutes systemic racism, authorities left a violent, psychotic man on the streets rather than risk accusations of racism.
Tragically, this stigma also contributed to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack in 2017 following a concert by Ariana Grande. Kyle Lawler, an on-duty security guard, witnessed the bomber, Salman Abedi, acting suspiciously with a heavy backpack. But Lawler failed to intervene or raise the alarm for fear of being branded a racist. Abedi detonated the device minutes later, killing 22 people — predominantly children and teenagers — and injuring over 1,000.
The Nowak case illustrates the same dynamic. Public criticism from Washington, combined with mounting protests on British streets, prompted pushback from Downing Street. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and senior Labour politicians vehemently rejected the two-tier accusation, stating categorically that they did not recognize the State Department’s characterization of the British justice system, a sentiment echoed by Justice Secretary David Lammy.
Starmer condemned the U.S. critiques, and even accused Elon Musk of overstepping diplomatic boundaries and attempting to stoke division on U.K. streets.
But in 2020, Starmer had no such reservations about commenting on American internal affairs following the death of George Floyd. He publicly urged then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson to address systemic racism directly with Donald Trump, openly criticized Trump’s response to Floyd’s death, and famously took a knee in a highly publicized display of solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
Labour’s attempt at containment was exposed when Vice President JD Vance took to X. Echoing his powerful Munich Security Conference speech, Vance argued:
Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. … He would still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.
Vance’s warning came days after a Sudanese asylum seeker was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a savage knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland — reported by the Telegraph as an attempted beheading. The victim, a man in his 40s, remains in serious condition after suffering significant injuries to his eyes, face, and back. Police stated the suspect is believed to have entered the U.K. by traveling from Dublin into Northern Ireland, where he had been granted leave to remain under a five-year visa.
The refusal to stem illegal immigration is a direct result of the policies of both main political parties. During the last six years of Conservative government, 128,000 undocumented migrants entered the country via the English Channel. Since Labour took power in July 2024, more than 70,000 illegal migrants have crossed into the U.K. on small boats.
Among those Britain is importing are individuals who despise the West and seek to harm its citizens. In the final week of January 2026, a Sudanese illegal migrant was sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of Rhiannon Skye Whyte, a hotel worker whom he stabbed 23 times at a railway station. Less than a fortnight later, an Iranian migrant pleaded guilty to sexual assault. In March, an Afghan asylum seeker received a 15-year sentence for the abduction and rape of a 12-year-old girl in a park.
For decades, uncontrolled immigration has been imposed upon the British public under the guise of multiculturalism, driven by successive governments in thrall to the liberal notion that diversity is a strength. This result has been social upheaval, rapid demographic change, and a society fractured into segregated cultural enclaves.
Expanding hate speech laws has effectively criminalized questions and complaints, leaving a nation paralyzed by fear and fueled by anger. JD Vance is correct to call this the politics of self-hatred.
Editor’s note: This article appeared originally at the American Mind.
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People still nagging you to get an Apple laptop? This news might silence them once and for all.
The lion’s share of Nvidia’s business is built around high-end GPUs — first for gamers, then for cryptominers, and now for AI data centers. This year, however, the company is branching out into an even bigger consumer computing category with its shiny new RTX Spark chip series destined to make Windows devices faster, more efficient, and more powerful than ever before.
A new ‘Spark’ of innovation
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Computex in Taipei to unveil the first generation of RTX Spark hardware.
First came the chips themselves. The N1X, built in partnership with Mediatek, is a brand-new system on a chip) by Nvidia designed on an ARM architecture intended for Windows machines. It’s meant to compete directly with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips for Windows on ARM and Apple Silicon for Mac.
Windows ARM laptops have yet to reach mainstream appeal. Nvidia hopes to change that.
Although the N1X is the most powerful option on the table, a lower-end N1 chip will also be available.
Nvidia RTX Spark laptopsNvidia/Computex 2026
For the spec nerds out there, NX1 features a Blackwell RTX GPU with 6144 CUDA Cores and 1 petaFLOP for AI computing, a 20-core Grace CPU, 128 GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, 70 billion transistors, and a Windows agent platform built alongside Microsoft. It looks impressive on paper.
Next came the devices. Nvidia is working with a number of OEM partners — including Microsoft Surface, Dell, HP, and many more — to launch and release the first RTX Spark-powered laptops, desktops, and workstations later this year. Laptops are expected to achieve all-day battery life on a single charge, while workstations can run local AI agents from the comfort of your home 24/7.
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Lastly, Nvidia is investing heavily in the longevity of RTX Spark devices with next-generation N2X and N3X chips already in the works for future releases.
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Why RTX Spark is important
RTX Spark is a significant departure from Nvidia’s usual business strategy. Historically, the company has only built dedicated GPUs for Windows machines that run alongside the CPUs and integrated graphics from companies like Intel or AMD. NX1 marks the first time it has released a complete solution that combines CPU, GPU, and memory into a single Nvidia-branded package for computers.
Now that Nvidia can control the entire chip experience within a Windows device, Huang claims that 100% of Nvidia’s software stack runs locally, from coding to generative AI, AI agents, and graphics. He further promises that every app ever made to work on an Nvidia GPU and every app made to run on Windows is compatible with RTX Spark, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, and even AAA video games.
RTX Spark NX1 chipNvidia/Computex 2026
This is a huge promise, considering that RTX Spark chips are built on an ARM architecture instead of the legacy x86 platform that powered Windows for the last 40 years. To drop an analogy, Huang is saying that his team has figured out how to put diesel in a gasoline-powered engine and make it run perfectly.
Disrupting Windows’ status quo
The RTX Spark series aren’t the first ARM-based chips for Windows. Qualcomm launched its own Snapdragon X Elite SOCs back in 2023. However, due to incomplete x86 legacy software compatibility and limited game support, Windows ARM laptops have yet to reach mainstream appeal. Nvidia hopes to change that, and if Huang’s claims are true, it might actually succeed.
To prove it, Huang touted the new Forza Horizon 6 and 007 First Light playing on two laptops in his hands as he stood on stage. Although the machines appeared to be showing videos of each game instead of running the games natively, Huang’s implication was clear that RTX Spark laptops could actually play both titles at up to 100 fps at 1440p.
RTX Spark compatibilityNvidia/Computex 2026
Our take on RTX Spark
I’m a huge fan of ARM laptops. As a Mac user, I was an early adopter of Apple Silicon with the M1 series in my 2020 MacBook Pro. At the time, there was nothing else like this chip — it was impressively fast, it sipped battery life to the point that I could use it for an entire workday and then some without a recharge, and it rarely heated up enough to kick on the fans. Apple Silicon is the ultimate companion for a remote writer like myself.
The story hasn’t quite been the same on Windows. While the Snapdragon X Elite offers a glimpse of the benefits I have grown to love in Apple Silicon Macs, inconsistent software compatibility, variable battery life, and poor performance have left Microsoft’s ARM-based OS looking rather inferior. I’m hopeful that RTX Spark will finally give Windows a competitive edge to push the chip category forward without losing any of the legacy support that made Windows great in the first place. Only time will tell.
RTX Spark devices are expected to be available this fall. Unfortunately, prices haven’t been released yet, and given the latest RAM shortages and inflated electronics prices, they’re sure to be expensive.
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Democrats are the party of the elite
For generations, Democrats have portrayed themselves as the party of ordinary Americans — factory workers, waitresses, truck drivers, police officers, construction workers, and middle-class families trying to get ahead. Yet one of the most striking features of modern American politics is how often Democratic leaders, activists, and media allies seem genuinely baffled by the very people they claim to represent.
The latest example comes from Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse, whose reaction to President Trump’s appearance at a packed UFC event on the White House lawn last weekend revealed a familiar pattern among America’s cultural elites.
Time and again, Democrat leaders appeared surprised that Americans cared more about grocery prices and border security than about the priorities emphasized by elite institutions.
To tens of millions of Americans, UFC is simply entertainment. It is competitive, exciting, patriotic, and increasingly mainstream. To Hesse and myriad other journalists and political commentators, however, its popularity seems to require explanation — as though they are studying the customs of a distant tribe.
That reaction says far more about elite America than it does about UFC fans, and few institutions better embody elite opinion than the modern Democratic Party.
The inability to understand ordinary Americans has become a recurring problem for Democrats. Consider one of the most famous campaign images in modern history. In 1988, Democrat presidential nominee Michael Dukakis climbed into a tank in an effort to project foreign policy credibility. Though the campaign intended the image to demonstrate Dukakis’ strength and command in order to reassure wary voters, the photograph instead became a political disaster.
To many Americans, Dukakis did not look like a commander in chief — he looked like Alfred E. Neuman from Mad magazine, wearing an oversize helmet and generally appearing out of his element. The embarrassing image became iconic because it captured something larger than a single campaign mistake: a cohort of American elites — consultants, strategists, and media professionals — who apparently thought the photo was a good idea.
The same kind of blindness occasionally appears among establishment Republicans as well. George H.W. Bush’s comments upon seeing a new and improved grocery store scanner became a symbol — fairly or unfairly — of a politician disconnected from everyday life. But while both parties have produced elite figures detached from ordinary concerns, the problem is far more pronounced today on the left.
Indeed, many of the institutions that now shape Democratic politics are populated almost exclusively by people who live, work, and socialize within a remarkably narrow slice of America. They attend the same universities, read the same publications, and live in the same metropolitan areas. They follow the same social media accounts. Their children attend the same schools, and their friends share the same political and cultural assumptions.
And increasingly, they seem unable to comprehend how other Americans think.
When Hillary Clinton dismissed millions of voters as a “basket of deplorables,” many Americans viewed the comment not as a gaffe but as a rare moment of honesty. It reflected a prevailing attitude among Democrats, and elites more broadly, that disagreement could be explained only by ignorance, prejudice, or moral deficiency.
President Biden repeatedly displayed a similar tendency. During the 2024 campaign (before he was ousted), he and his allies often portrayed concerns about illegal immigration, inflation, crime, and cultural change as either exaggerated or illegitimate, even as polling showed those issues dominating voters’ concerns.
Time and again, Democrat leaders appeared surprised that Americans cared more about grocery prices and border security than about the priorities emphasized by elite institutions.
Vice President Kamala Harris often suffered from the same disconnect. Her public appearances frequently projected the impression that she was speaking to an audience of policy experts rather than to working Americans — when she was not donning fake accents, that is. Her campaign’s struggles were not merely ideological; they were cultural. Many voters simply concluded that she did not understand their lives.
The pattern extends well beyond politicians.
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Millions of Americans attend NASCAR races, pack country music concerts, and watch UFC fights. Elite commentators scoff and express bewilderment in response. Millions more display American flags, fill church pews, and worry about rising crime and open borders. Too often, the response from elite circles is not curiosity but contempt.
The Democratic Party once excelled at connecting with ordinary Americans precisely because it better understood their views. Franklin Roosevelt, known as a “traitor to his class,” spoke the language of workers because he wanted them to be part of the Democrats’ coalition for generations. Harry Truman connected with voters because he shared many of their instincts. Even Bill Clinton possessed an intuitive feel for middle-class anxieties and aspirations.
Today’s Democrat coalition increasingly draws its leadership from elite universities, media organizations, nonprofits, foundations, government bureaucracies, and professional-class enclaves. These institutions exercise enormous cultural influence, but they are not representative of America as a whole.
As a result, Democrats increasingly mistake the views traded in faculty lounges, newsroom editorial meetings, and Washington policy conferences for the views held around kitchen tables. That confusion helps explain their shock at one political surprise after another, especially Trump’s victories in 2016 and 2024.
Democrat strategists express astonishment after yet another batch of election results defies their expectations. Panels of “experts” search for explanations, and reports are circulated that blame political circumstances or voters’ various “isms.” But the possibility that the Democrats have lost touch with ordinary Americans is rarely, if ever, considered.
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A political movement cannot represent people it does not understand. And it cannot understand the views of many Americans whom it increasingly views with a mixture of confusion, suspicion, and disdain. For a party that still considers itself the party of the people, that is a major problem it has yet to reckon with.
And it is also a problem for America as a whole. A healthy republic depends on officeholders who can understand — and respect — the culture and traditions of their fellow citizens, even when they do not share them. When America’s governing and cultural elites lose the ability to see the nation as it actually is, they make poorer decisions, deepen political divisions, and erode the mutual trust on which self-government depends.
A republic cannot long endure if those who wield influence come to view ordinary Americans not as fellow citizens to be understood but as strangers to be belittled and ignored.
Editor’s note: This article appeared originally at The American Mind.
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Tiny $750,000 thriller just hit $287 million because Gen Z can’t stop watching — here’s the sad reason why
On May 15, Gen Z director Curry Barker’s “Obsession” hit theaters. The psychological horror film follows a young man whose wish for his longtime crush to love him comes true in far more intense and unsettling ways than he had hoped.
The film was an instant box office phenomenon, grossing over $285 million worldwide despite its humble $750,000 budget. Its popularity is driven largely by Gen Z viewers; audience data shows roughly 75% of ticket buyers are ages 18-34.
Dubbed a “Gen Z Fatal Attraction,” the mainstream take is that the movie resonates because it warns against toxic “nice guy” dynamics. In Zoomer internet culture, “nice guys” are men who believe they deserve romantic interest simply because they’re polite and friendly. When rejected, they grow resentful and angry, convinced they’re entitled to a woman’s affection. Their niceness is viewed as a manipulative tactic rather than an offer of genuine friendship.
In the film, protagonist Bear is hopelessly in love with his longtime friend Nikki. Mainstream critics see him as the classic “nice guy” who turns to manipulation — snapping a “one wish willow” to force her affection, making the story catnip for a generation that loves to call out such behavior.
But BlazeTV host John Doyle argues this surface-level reading misses what is really drawing young people to “Obsession.” On this episode of “The John Doyle Show,” Doyle unpacks the film’s true cultural power.
In the film, Bear asks his friend Ian for advice on confessing his feelings to Nikki.
“He’s immediately told by Ian that he’s just, you know, too real, man. He’s too authentic about all of it. And because he’s so authentic about it, it’s coming off cringey and weird,” says Doyle.
This is exactly what keeps so many young people single and lonely today, he argues.
“We literally will not do anything at all,” Doyle says. “We will just, you know, sit there in the corner with our cool cards until we die.”
Or they’ll resort to “epic [pickup artist] tactics” like “negging” — dishing out backhanded compliments or subtle insults in hopes of making the romantic target seek the negger’s approval. But never authenticity.
This outright refusal to be authentic is portrayed in the film when Nikki point-blank asks Bear if he likes her, to which he replies “as a friend.”
“He failed to be authentic. He was too afraid,” says Doyle, rejecting the mainstream narrative that “Obsession” is about “nice guys trying to exercise control over women.”
“[‘Obsession’] is, I think, just about that inauthenticity, and I think it ultimately is telling you the truth.”
To hear more, watch the episode above.
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