It should not be a controversial statement to demand horror be horrifying, but because we live in a capitalist society that prioritizes comfort and sanitization over all else, that refuses to engage with material reality if it isn’t assuaging our delicate egos and imperialist sensibilities, we find discomfort immoral. It made me feel bad and therefore it is bad. The thing that made me feel bad should not do that but I want to be a part of it. I want the prestige, the money, to sit at the cool kid’s table and enjoy the infrastructure they built while I was mocking them.

I think the version that is out there of her is largely a version that people are putting together from the pieces they have. The first time I met her, I was like, “This is not how I thought she would be.”

I recently watched the superb YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING (2026) (letterboxd review here) and this is a wonderful companion piece. It's been said before and will be said again but there is really no one out here doing it like Nathan Fielder. A singular entity in the entertainment space. I think the only thing that approaches his body of work is like, Tim Heidecker/Gregg Turkington's On Cinema escapades.