The key to understanding the upcoming elections, and especially the confounding race for Pennsylvania governor, may be Chris Pratt and his hit streaming series, "The Terminal List." Here's how critic Rebecca Onion, writing for Slate, describes Amazon Prime's top show: "The Terminal List is a classic American fantasy about the goodness of the SEALs, the corruption of high-level government officials and corporate shills, and the purifying quality of righteous violence."
Does that sound like a binge-worthy thriller that speaks to the popular anxieties of the moment, or a piece of simplistic and frightening myth-making that nurtures violent delusions? Your answer probably expresses how you think about politics in the year 2022.
Onion, you won't be surprised, thinks it's the latter. She's one of the 60% of critics who, according to Rotten Tomatoes, panned the show as "an unhinged right-wing revenge fantasy."
