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The Franchise Thinks Scorsese Was Right about Superhero Movies

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Summary
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47% Informative

HBO 's new series, The Franchise, is a sharp satire of superhero movies.

The eight -part comedy stars Himesh Patel as first assistant director Daniel .

It's a corporate tug of war in which a studio god and bullying executive Pat shower them with shit from above.

The real hero of the series, though, is the wonderful Patel .

Most of the targets of The Franchise aren’t new: the conversation about sexism and toxic fandoms is long-running.

Martin Scorsese’s contempt for superhero movies becomes a running riff in the series.

Yet in order to to to feel something about all these characters, we need to know that they feel.

Maybe the studio bosses will let them flesh it out in the sequel.

VR Score

40

Informative language

35

Neutral language

40

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

47

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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