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Kill your daddies? TV's obsession with patricide - Black Podcasting
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Kill your daddies? TV’s obsession with patricide

podcast December 30, 2024

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From HBO’s Industry to FX’s The Bear, 2024 was full of TV characters working out their “daddy issues” the tough way…by committing patricide. This week Brittany is joined by Vulture’s TV critic Roxana Hadadi and The New Yorker’s Inkoo Kang to compare and contrast a new generation of daddy killers. Why do we enjoy seeing screen dads offed? And what does that say about our own anxieties about patriarchy?

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