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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Catherine Shoard

Get stuffed! Why The Beanie Bubble is ‘a joyful funeral for the American dream’

Zach Galifianakis as Ty Warner in ‘The Beanie Bubble’.
‘‘I don’t really want to win in a system I don’t believe in. I’d rather blow it up’ … Zach Galifianakis as Ty Warner in The Beanie Bubble. Photograph: Apple TV+

When Damian Kulash and Kristin Gore were growing up – back when they were friends in high school, two decades before they reunited, got married and had twins – there was, he says, “this basic feeling that the world was really screwed up in the past but would get much better in the future, and we were somewhere on that curve: lots of things weren’t yet fixed, but we were inexorably going towards somewhere fairer.”

Next to him, Gore nods. Sunny optimism was, she says, “a very 90s thing”.

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