Sinners - The Scariest Thing In This Oscar-Winner Isn't The Vampires
THE ARC'S TAKE
This episode's whole argument boils down to Jaclynn'ss tagline, repeated like a confession — "this movie is smarter than me" — and we spend an hour proving that the vampires are the least scary thing in Sinners, since Coogler already gave the real monster a name: Mississippi.
EPISODE SUMMARY
We tackle Sinners, Ryan Coogler's Oscar-nominated vampire movie starring Michael B. Jordan in a dual role — and argue that the Jim Crow South it depicts is scarier than any bloodsucker in it. It's a horror movie, a heist movie, a Western, and a musical all executed "at a foundational level"…
The skinny
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