Excellent! Durham manages to excoriate white supremacy, gentrifiers, and virtue signalers while still showing us flawed and complex characters who aren't all good or bad. The sharp and satiric humor is perfectly pitched and equal parts cringeworthy and all-too-familiar. In Tom, Molly, and Peter, we see three super different but equally harmful images of white liberalism. The endangered species motif threaded throughout is quite potent as well. The final exchange between Jaquan and Elijah is gutting, quiet in its power, and an effective punctuation mark for the piece. Wonderful, essential work.
Excellent! Durham manages to excoriate white supremacy, gentrifiers, and virtue signalers while still showing us flawed and complex characters who aren't all good or bad. The sharp and satiric humor is perfectly pitched and equal parts cringeworthy and all-too-familiar. In Tom, Molly, and Peter, we see three super different but equally harmful images of white liberalism. The endangered species motif threaded throughout is quite potent as well. The final exchange between Jaquan and Elijah is gutting, quiet in its power, and an effective punctuation mark for the piece. Wonderful, essential work.