Living in 2025 can feel exhausting. Everything we do, including consuming media, feels so much more difficult and divisive than it ought to be. Of course, films that lean into politics (like One Battle After Another) become fodder for discourse, but so do seemingly innocuous things like Taylor Swift's latest album or Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance. And we're not just siloed by ideology. Over the past 20 years, our entertainment ecosystems have become increasingly niche and sectioned off from one another, largely by genre and fandom. It's been a long time since a regular human story, disconnected from any pre-existing intellectual property, appealed to a majority of regular human people.

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