*SPOILERS ABOUND* Several commentators have picked up on the numerous similarities between Don’t Look Up and the Simpsons episode Bart’s Comet. Each story features a society discovering, via a professor and his young student, that an asteroid is heading directly for earth. In each case the asteroid will bring total oblivion unless the threatened society can take collective action to prevent it. Both feature hair-brained and unsuccessful attempts to destroy the asteroid, together with a hysteric media environment and incoherent, self-interested political responses. Each end with the central characters uniting to find a modicum of peace in the face of their impending doom.
Don't Look Up and The Simpsons
Don't Look Up and The Simpsons
Don't Look Up and The Simpsons
*SPOILERS ABOUND* Several commentators have picked up on the numerous similarities between Don’t Look Up and the Simpsons episode Bart’s Comet. Each story features a society discovering, via a professor and his young student, that an asteroid is heading directly for earth. In each case the asteroid will bring total oblivion unless the threatened society can take collective action to prevent it. Both feature hair-brained and unsuccessful attempts to destroy the asteroid, together with a hysteric media environment and incoherent, self-interested political responses. Each end with the central characters uniting to find a modicum of peace in the face of their impending doom.