#330 - The Show About Nothing

THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) is widely remembered as a prescient film that anticipates the rise of social media and reality TV. But how accurate was its forecast, really? And what, exactly, was it saying? And hey - did the audience watch Truman go to the bathroom? We investigate. "The Audience is Us" by Jonathan Rosenbaum - https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2021/07/the-audience-is-us/