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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,’ ‘The Idol,’ Episode 2, and the ‘Top Chef’ Finale

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The Dangers of Multiversal Storytelling

I think it's- I think it's the human desire to kill death. Yes, but also to- I think they don't ever want anything to be over and we don't want anything to ever die. And one of the things about Spider-Verse that I think is so delightful is what I was saying before: You don't need to know any of this to find it funny, bizarre, interesting. The danger, it's the rabbit hole that both comics and now the MCU has fallen into is that it becomes homework. That it is not fun, surprising, clever, interesting, or even secondary to the story. But who cares? It's a dinosaur fucking Spider-

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