Years of Living Dangerously: Olivia Munn
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- Original URL
- globalcool.org/entertainment/years-of-living-dangerously-olivia-munn
- Section
- Entertainment
- Published
- 2014-05-19
- Written from
- Wayback Machine capture of 2014-07-19
An episode recap of Years of Living Dangerously, the Showtime climate documentary series, covering the fifth episode, True Colors. It was one of five recaps in the run that English Wikipedia now cites from its article on the series.
The recap's subject was the American political response to climate change, framed through two state governors: Jay Inslee of Washington, elected on a climate platform, and Chris Christie of New Jersey, who had led the rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy while declining to connect the storm to a changing climate. The page set the two against each other in the register of a boxing bout, complete with weights, and was written in a columnist's voice throughout.
The tone is a fair description of the whole series of recaps. They were written for a readership assumed to be watching the show rather than studying the subject, and they treated the political obstruction the programme documented as the story, rather than the underlying science.