“It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when televisionโs so-called Second Golden Age began; however, by the 2010s, it was understood that Prestige TV had begun to fill the gap left by the demise of cinemaโs mid-budget tier.”
“Taken as a whole, ‘Too Old to Die Young’ is a summative statement on genre, aesthetics and the crumbling American psyche, delivered with a fury sublimated in neon glow. It is a major work of art.”
“Noรฉ’s work has always been concerned with errant self-expression, what happens when we are wrenched from sensation and how we adjust to the comedown.”
“‘Too Old to Die Young’ is rough around the edges, and perhaps deliberately so. Itโs almost as if the writers are two brothers in a car fighting between soft rock and techno on the radio.”
โIn โVox Lux,โ pop music is an emblem of pop culture and the distractions we use to soften the growing trauma of the nation. It also plays into the main question that Corbet raises: just how long can we cling onto pop culture before society gets so bad that nothing will help?โ
โAs a largely disregarded noir B-side, โPushoverโ deliberately recalls its more famous predecessor, playing upon audience expectations of MacMurray’s screen persona to create an experience of dรฉjร vu.โ
โโBaby Driverโ and โDriveโย are not road maps to modernity, they donโt offer any route through it that guarantees a safe arrival. The only advice they might offer is to tear up the map itself. To simply drive.โ
โIn straining to emulate something in the order of a traditional thriller, Katz and his team of long-time collaborators find themselves sliding perilously towards the formulaic.โ