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Taylor Swift sorts her life into chapters, or as she now calls them, eras. With this new docuseries on Disney+ we enter a new one. Taylor Swift: sports hero, televangelist mega pastor, propaganda machine.

The End of an Era stars, of course, at the end, at the final show in Vancouver (which just so happens to be the same show also now available to watch as a concert film on Disney+ ). Swift is addressing her “teammates” — the dancers, singers and band members who joined her on this behemoth tour — with the air of a cult leader.

Every night, she says, she has imagined them as the children they once were, being told not to pursue their dreams. Sometimes, she adds, she projects forward to the future where they’re old and their grandchildren are clamouring to know abo

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