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Spoiler: She isnt, and what she says turns the story completely upside down.
Of course, its much easier to do that when were nestled inside the bubble of a fictional experience.
(By the way: Several big twists from 2010s shows and movies are about to be ruined.
Just know that going in.)
Robot which had already tinkered with our sense of what was happening by revealing that Mr. Jordan PeelesGet Outturned a black mans trip to meet his white girlfriends family into a sinister horror show.
All of these shows and films announced that stories are fluid and can be altered at any time.
(Turns out Sting was right: The Russiansdolove their children, too!)
The first season ofAmerican Crime Storytook a news event that had been covered and rehashed ad nauseam the O.J.
But likeMad MenorThe AmericansorThe People v. O.J.
Simpson, it encouraged realignment of perspective that felt safe because it was rooted in looking backward.
But when pop culture demanded course correction in the present day, things got much dicier.
Pop culture tried to confront that truth this decade, sometimes successfully and sometimes with major backlash.
(It took them 11 years and 21 movies to do it, though.)
(Well, that was probably one of the nicer things they said.)
Back in the day probably wasnt that great.
Angelas view of events is not rose-colored; its stark and conveyed, quite literally, in black-and-white.
Its the truth, at least as Will knew it.
Watchmenengages in narrative reframing on every front Ive just outlined above.
It does put a foot forward in that direction, though.
