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Dystopian Futures: Now and Then Part 1

Everyone loves a good old-fashioned dystopian future. They are cool now so I decided to study this movie trope. More specifically I looked at the 1960s idea of a dystopian future compared with the modern film’s dystopian future. I watched the following films in preparation for this article. Three from the 1960s, The 10th Victim
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Law & Ordocki #11: Law & Order: SVU and the Case of Fuck It, I Don’t Even Know Anymore

Did You Know?: Dick Wolf hunts human beings for sport. Season 12 of Special Victims Unit is simultaneously its worst and best season. Worst because based on all objective measures of analyzing television entertainment it’s atrocious, shittily acted, preposterously plotted with a narrative attention span of a small dog that only intermittently remembers what the
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Sports

Athletes with names that sound like fantasy characters

Here’s a list of professional athletes that could be easily be a Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings character. The list was originally around 500. I narrowed it down, with some help from fellow writers J.P. Behrens and Heather Lin, to a reasonable amount. Enjoy! National Hockey League: 2. Torey Krug, Boston Bruins
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