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Andy Meek
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Maybe it's partly because of the coronavirus pandemic, but a good chunk of my TV- and movie-watching at the moment has tended to involve sci-fi fare, including everything from time-travel narratives to explorations of space and really anything that depicts scientists in a race-against-time struggle to save humanity or stop some gathering storm. To that end, for example, I've just started watching season two of the criminally underrated Apple TV+ series For All Mankind, from creator Ron Moore and which presents an alternate history of the space race between the US and the Soviet Union. In this one, the US actually lost the space race, and we get to watch the effects of that build over time -- such as the US steering much more funding and resources to NASA in an effort to catch up. A more fully funded NASA, imagine that!
On the film side of things, one of the best sci-fi movies I've seen in years is 2016's Arrival, which I bring up not only because of Amy Adams' fantastic performance and the way the movie plays with the idea of extraterrestrial contact (the aliens come to actually help us this time!). I'd also never heard of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis until watching Arrival -- basically, it's the idea that the language you speak dictates how you experience and understand the world. Long story short, though, Arrival is also now available to stream for free, via IMDb TV.
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