Peter Kafka
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Podcast Appearances
For me, it is a white guy of a certain age.
He's probably like 5'9".
He tells women he's six feet tall.
There is a little bit of like performance of success.
I also think like so much of our pop culture appetite is voyeurism and spectacle and
And I think that that will always endure.
I mean, Brittany, like even the way that you've been talking about this, it's like we sort of used finance bro and tech bro interchangeably.
But like you could arguably call Mad Men a show about ad bros.
That was the hot job at the time.
And it's a job that people don't understand.
And I think so much of like television is really interesting to people when you're getting like these episodic chunks of time that are a look into like another world that you're never going to access.
I'm never going to really understand what a margin call is, but I'm really going to enjoy watching industry every week.
I think that for me, basically what the show is doing is destroying that character or that representation by being more ethnically inclusive with its cast.
And by doing the thing that I love when representation does this, which is just that, like, good representation is, you know, like, we can also be terrible, like,
were also awful.
That is not necessarily the domain only of white men.
I say that as an Iranian-American woman.
So I think the show is very specific about the fact that this world and capitalism as a structure is just destructive no matter whoever is part of it.