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I'm Megan Garber, and on the Atlantic's new podcast, The Review, you can join writers from our culture desk and around the magazine.

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We'll talk about movies, TV, music, and more, and try to tackle the big questions they raise about art and American society.

So much of the reckoning now is a confrontation with how mean the internet was and why that was and whether we can be different as people who continue celebrity culture now.

We'll go deep on great artists like August Wilson.

He's the closest we have to like a Shakespeare in the 20th century.

August Wilson's work really concerns itself with the experiences and with the language and the music of black people in America who are working class, whose experiences are not like hashtag black excellence, if you will.

And we'll explain how the business of entertainment shapes culture, often in ways that are hard to see at first.

I think we've never needed fictional villains more to kind of inform the way we think about real-life villains.

But the problem is, is that the conversation is so polarized on who the real-life villains are.

It's sort of impossible for a company as mass marketed as Disney to say things that are meaningful.

Pop culture is also also just fun and we have fun with it.

I just wanted to point out that Top Gun, in my mind at least, is about a bunch of cute boys calling each other cute names.

That's very true.

That's very true.

There's also so much sweat in this movie, just everywhere.

Everyone is just, I'm like, I hope they hydrated after filming.

It's a damp movie.

Very damp.

Don't just watch a movie, understand it.

Don't just hear a song, listen to what it has to say.

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