Reactor’s latest Read Receipts episode features Leah Schnelbach, Emmet Asher-Perrin and Bailey Simer discussing recent films, television and books. The conversation ranges from the DC series Lanterns and Oscar Wilde biographies to the Chinese drama Pursuit of Jade and Lex Croucher’s novel The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones.
Asher-Perrin says Lanterns surprised him by avoiding the usual late-season slump. Rather than saving its major action sequence for the finale, the show places it midway through its eight-episode run, leaving the later episodes to explore what follows. He also discusses the series’ treatment of its Green Lantern characters and the tension between superhero stories and military institutions.
The group also talks about Primetime, which Asher-Perrin and Schnelbach have watched, and the unusual career choices of its star, Robert Pattinson. Other topics listed for the episode include films about technology executives, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Oscar Wilde’s legacy, dark academia, The Secret History, and the role of discomfort in fiction.
The episode’s reading and viewing list also includes Pursuit of Jade, Black Sails, Piranesi, Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Hell Bent, and The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones. The hosts reflect on how people respond when a work becomes widely watched or discussed, and on the ways books and other media shape personal tastes.
Sources: Reactor.