About this episode

Brad and Paul discuss the failures of a virtual adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' in the context of COVID.

COVID ruined everything, including "War of the Worlds" as a frame of reference; the KLRNRadio Players did a better job than this offering of disaster on celluloid. Brad and Paul break it down in all of it's too cheesy to even be good terriblemess

People in this episode

Hosts: Brad, Paul

Topics covered

• virtual reality
• film analysis
• disaster films
• COVID impact
• War of the Worlds
• KLRNRadio Players

Keywords

• War of the Worlds
• COVID
• disaster films
• KLRNRadio Players
• film analysis
• virtual reality

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Books & works: War of the Worlds

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