<i>Mr. Robot</i> and Superheroes: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
Scott Meslow | “No other modern TV has so compellingly captured the sense of futility and exhaustion that has so thoroughly penetrated American life in 2017. The world of , like the world of today, is corrupt and stupid and cruel—and the people who might be able to change things refuse, because the corruption and stupidity and cruelty of the system is what enabled them to reach positions of
