kontextmaschine:

My take on this missing submarine is it’s part of the thing where since Harambe the world operates on novelistic logic. Like, it’s not even that it’s poetic justice for these billionaires to die so much as that it’s a dramatic event arising from the confluence of several major themes of the contemporary world

Also I’ll say the prospect of awaiting inevitable death trapped at the bottom of an ocean in an ersatz high tech tin can with a few other representatives of a wildly wealthy novelty-seeking class is very 80s horror, that could have been a Tales From the Crypt episode back when it was Black Mirror about yuppies.

(Fuck if I know how you’d shoehorn in the practical effects gore and tits.)

coreyww:

I kinda miss HBO Max’s previous business model of “having and keeping good content”

I feel like that was a good feature

I honestly miss original HBO’s business model of “gore titties and boxing, on TV”

So “Tales from the Crypt” was the respected early ‘50s horror comic from EC that got squashed in the “Seduction of the Innocent” scare

In 1989 HBO used the brand for a horror anthology series, at the same time Sandman was recasting that comics era as deep myth

It was kinda Twilight Zone in its irony but more visceral, with gore and tits. HBO’s premium cable original programming brand was always “with gore and tits”, before SatC they had an aging boomer sitcom called “Dream On” where the conceit was his retro-themed sexual fantasies were shot as part of the plot