Jason v Jason

• Published date: 14 May 2024
• Publication title: Signal

I feel as if I’ve been living in a parallel universe since about 2016. Everything intangible we depend on — democracy, the rule of law, policing by trust, yadda yadda yadda — is going terrifyingly wrong. Reality has become disorientating enough without the world of entertainment spinning me out into multiple universes too. But the multiverse is having a moment (or technically many moments), what with the Marvel Cinematic Universe providing such fertile and lucrative ground for its heroes and the Oscar-winning likes of Everything Everywhere All At Once or Constellation. I’ll throw Netflix’s 3 Body Problem in too, because a fictional past, present and future Earth in the same storyline feels close enough

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