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Month: March 2019

‘Us’ Holds Up a Mirror to Cultural Complacency, and the Likeness Is Just Plain Creepy

We can only believe any individual’s triumph is truly unlikely if the odds of success from an outsider’s perspective seem overwhelming or if our own generalized scope of said person does not contain any further conception beyond how we perceive them based upon limited previous evidence. The odds were never particularly against Jordan Peele with…

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