Rastus and Hattie and Run the Beast Down bring nightmarish scenarios to virtual life. How do you write dramas about dystopia and alienation in the middle of a pandemic, especially when the people in charge have seemingly signed a blood oath to a nihilist death cult? Isn't doomscrolling Twitter enough to make most of us imagine the worst?…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:55PM on October 8, 2020