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Best of the Archives: Whiteness in America (2017)

Still Processing

Still Processing

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.89.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

When “Hillbilly Elegy” showed up on Netflix last November, it was just the latest in a series of media attempting to explain whiteness to its audience. We’re revisiting a better (though not perfect) example: the podcast “S-Town.” Check out our episode from 2017 while we prepare for a new season of Still Processing — coming to you in March.

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0:00.0

Did you ever get around to watching how Billy LG by the way oh Lord Jenna

0:07.2

Of course I did I'm I count myself as being

0:11.8

The biggest fan of Amy Adams and the biggest fan of Glenn close

0:16.0

So of course I was there, but the question is did I did I want to be once I got there?

0:21.9

I

0:23.2

Also just feel like the movie suffers from a

0:26.5

A refusal to acknowledge what it is right I mean it thinks what it's giving us is

0:34.6

This this bright

0:37.4

vivid tour to like so-called Trump country

0:41.1

But things haven't exactly worked out for your mama. I know this ain't right honey

0:46.9

But she's your mother. It's gonna cut off a hunk of life for us and serve it to us to say

0:53.4

This is these are the people these are the real Americans who elected Donald Trump and here's some time in in their lives

1:02.4

And maybe if we help her this one last time she'll finally learn her lesson and keep her job

1:09.0

But why can't we let her cleaner own mess up for once?

1:11.6

Because families the only thing that means a goddamn

1:16.1

The movie is sort of afraid to do the thing that it seems like it's setting out to do it doesn't want

1:21.6

To really get close to anything remotely political at all. It's afraid of the poverty

1:28.3

that these characters are living with and

1:32.3

It doesn't really understand the place and so

1:36.7

Nothing works the actors don't have anything like really substantially human to act because

1:42.5

They're not even fully fleshed out ideas

1:46.0

I watched Hillbilly L.A. and I did not mind it

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