It Really Is Mind-Boggling How Bad Netflix's 'The Electric State' Was

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A few months ago—what feels like years in 2020s time—I sat through Netflix’s The Electric State . It was probably one of the most miserable film experiences I’d ever had the misfortune of enduring.

This hulking monstrosity of grotesque anti-art that somehow cost 320 million dollars to make truly stands as a monument to some of the worst tendencies of modern filmmaking—it’s a stretch to even apply that term to it. One of the wonderful things about the human brain is its ability to repress painful memories, and when I saw that Ryan George and his team over at ‘pitch meeting’ had released a video about The Electric State , I realized that’s exactly what mine had done with that algorith

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