Why are you so unwilling to accept the well documented abuses of troubled teen camps? Have you done any research into this subject before coming in here and going "NUH-UH"" to everyone giving you an explanation?
Unfortunately this flies over the head of most young masc viewers of the show. That's much more an indicator of societal patriarchal brainrot than it is a condemnation of the writing but as I said elsewhere I do think the finale should have been more of a defeat for Walt. Him getting basically everything he wants in the end did not help things lol
I can’t help but see it as a western critique of communism
See I think a theme like that is too simple for how Gilligan and co write these shows. Breaking Bad was thematically kinda sloppy and Walt won too much in the end (big reason why BCS is better), but with Plur1bus I feel there's more to it than a generic individualism-vs-collectivism narrative. To me the show is more about isolation, grief, and exploring what it means to be a person in the modern world. Ofc the season isn't over yet and there's plenty of time for them to fuck it up so I might eat my words in a few weeks.
The article you linked seems to be paywalled, I can only see the first two "pages" of the comic and the archive versions don't show any of it sadly. But jesus Christ such lib bullshit from him, how does someone like that not know better by now??
I was curious about this so I looked around and found this podcast from Sept 2025 where Spiegelman says this (emphasis mine):
I was, you know, I was certainly talking with my friends [about Gaza], talking about everything, but how do you actually make a difference? The thing is, I had to because the people who are defending the Israeli position were defending from a position of Israel being the last bastion of defense for Jews. That this was where you go and you'll be protected and you'll be fighting for your people and your religion. I'm not very religious. I have friends that are Jewish, but also some others here and there, so it's not like that. And I had no interest in Israel ever, ever, from the time I was there once as a kid. So all I knew for sure is I'm a diaspora Jew, and all I found out as I was looking at the news and hearing Netanyahu is his only big enemy besides Hamas is the diaspora Jews. We're the target. Because if you're not there fighting for the Zionist cause, you're a traitor of some kind.
I thought, okay he doesn't seem like a raging zionist but wow it's really disappointing he doesn't use the term genocide ONCE in this interview despite him talking about his collaboration with Joe Sacco. Then I found (at least part of) the comic they drew together and, well:
It has to be presented in an engaging enough way and centered on a topic that's actually interesting for me to even consider watching. But the ones that meet those criteria tend to be excellent in my experience.
Sometimes the cranks are on the right side of things