This article discusses, in depth, the season finale of the Netflix series Billionaires’ Bunker.
Surviving the apocalypse has become the ultimate luxury. As new reports surface, every few months, of the world’s wealthiest people building themselves underground fortresses in anticipation of an extinction event they feel increasingly sure is imminent, art has been imitating life. From the Hulu hit Paradise to Succession creator Jesse Armstrong’s HBO movie Mountainhead to The Act of Killing filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer’s narrative debut The End , the past year has seen a surge in speculative fictions about super-rich characters who hunker down in expensive isolation as the world burns. Or floods. Or succumbs to a deadly virus.
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