Now that I’m aware that The Secret World of Alex Mack was the ur-model of my sexuality, looking back over it and notice the synergy behind the “sinister company behind middle-class utopia” and the way it was shot in the master-planned community of Valencia

Just like Snow Crash, American History X, White Men Can’t Jump, and Falling Down, one more 90s cultural text that was ultimately about the end of LA as a white middle-class paradise