Inkoo Kang

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It's Been a Minute · People are struggling financially. Even on TV. · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

And the more soap operatic their antics get, the more sort of like weirdly logical it all feels.

Because how else are any of these people supposed to get ahead in life?

Thank you.

I also really hope that we get more shows in this vein.

I think we kind of need it as a society.

Which sounds a little strange to say that we need any television show, but I do feel like this is where so many people are right now.

This sort of weird liminal space where they probably have gone through all of the hoops

to land at a place where they should feel more stable and secure in life and are

not feeling that because those places of landing have been sort of destroyed systematically.

Wow.

Anyway, I'm going to get off my soapbox now.

Thanks for having me.

I love being depressing.

It's Been a Minute · Kill your daddies? TV's obsession with patricide · 30 Dec 2024 podcast

I have theories about this. I think that there are two main texts. I think if we're talking in a more macro scale, thinking about prestige TV as a whole, for me, it's about the anxiety of the world not changing. Because you have these old narratives destructive men who will not give up their power.

And so you're just sort of sitting around waiting for him to die so that something new can happen in the world. My example of this is always Logan Roy.

And so that's sort of like the more like political, socioeconomic answer. I think the other thing is that we really love looking at monsters. And I think a lot of the time parents are monsters. We are actually in this really weird period right now where people are talking about going no contact with their parents. I think oftentimes very much it's the dads, right?

And I think that we're just taking a lot more seriously the This idea of how much your parents can mess you up. We're on NPR, so I won't use the word I was going to use. And I think that, you know, this is like a really big question, like a big global question of like, when can our fathers vacate their positions so other people can rise up?

We're really interested in this... question of complicity. And I feel like part of that structure is you have sort of like a big bad who is usually the father. And then you have these people who are more in the gray area. And a lot of the question is, what are the people in the gray area going to do? Are they going to join the father or are they going to try to forge their own path?

Yeah, I mean, you can think about it in this sort of like, I think like really helpless macro sense. And I think that is something that like really bears out in the way that Roxanna was saying. Even if Logan really dies, like the only possible beneficiary to that death is going to be one of his extremely deep pocketed children. And ultimately, it's not really going to change very much.

I think that the stories that maybe feel more relatable and hopefully less nihilistic. are these much more relatable stories about cycles of abuse or cycles of coercion. And I think the patricide stuff is really relevant to that. But

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