The New Haven Nose On Our Unquenchable Cancel Culture And Amazon's 'The Boys'

Everything's canceled, more or less. The movie The Hunt was canceled before anybody got to see it. People talked about canceling the movie Adam before anybody got to see it. Sarah Silverman was canceled, from a movie anyway, for something she did -- on television -- 12 years ago. The OA was canceled, but people maybe don't believe that it was canceled? And we're apparently on a path toward canceling... the Dewey decimal system?

And: Amazon Prime's new superhero series, The Boys, imagines a world where something like the Marvel Cinematic Universe is real... and something like the Marvel corporation exists too.

Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:

• The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years
• What Is the Greatest Movie Quote of All Time?
• Gwyneth Paltrow excited to find out Samuel L. Jackson was also in all those Marvel movies she did
• J.D. Salinger, E-Book Holdout, Joins the Digital Revolution
• Lemon, a 30 Rock Spinoff Was So Close to Happening
• A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts A Space To Socialize
• Marvel source claims X-Men character Wolverine will join Avengers in new MCU film
• Eating At A Pizza Hut Restaurant May Be A Thing of the Past
• AP: Women accuse opera legend Domingo of sexual harassment
• Taylor & Kanye: How two superstars, four words, and 15 seconds of TV influenced a decade of pop culture

GUESTS:

• Lucy Gellman - Editor of The Arts Paper and host of WNHH radio's Kitchen Sync
• Mercy Quaye - Founder and principal consultant for The Narrative Project and a columnist with Hearst Connecticut Media Group
• Brian Slattery - Arts editor for the New Haven Independent and a producer at WNHH radio

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Colin McEnroe contributed to this show.

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