Ronald Young Jr.

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945 appearances 13 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 24 Aug

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Pop Culture Happy Hour · Lanterns · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

I think what I struggled here with is when they make these introductions, these ideas, because they don't necessarily have enough of an impact beyond the personal narrative.

between him and how.

I remembered watching it and thinking, well, I have some issues with the execution.

They're saying that, you know, black folks have to work twice as hard to get half as much.

Something that a lot of folks know.

Sure.

But then the way that it's executed amongst these black folks, and I'm trying to be as broad as possible so I don't create spoilers.

To me, it felt like it flattened the black experience in a way that we always say often that black folks are not a monolith.

But there's a flattening here that I'm saying, like you said enough for me to say, yes, that's true, but how would that actually play out here to give you another example of something?

In the Watchmen series, that Damon Lindelof, who is one of the co-creators of this show, he did the season of The Watchmen.

He has some race stuff in there as well with the characters Hooded Justice and Dr.

Manhattan.

And I found that those parts of them being black in those shows.

Huge portions of the actual plot of the Watchmen are derived from the fact that these people are black.

Whereas in this, for me, it didn't quite fit, even though I appreciated them trying.

But that wasn't even really my biggest issue.

I kind of felt like continuing with the rest of the story, I don't feel like was as sharp or as clear by the time we get to reveals and knowing who the bad guys are.

Are then by the time we get to where we are with Jon Stewart, I'm just curious.

I guess for a minute there, I felt empty.

And I feel like because the world is so nore, I felt even more kind of dismal and dark inside.

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