{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6ace5e1794a3daa98e83c0ec/6adfb8fa0e0585e9dc55a23e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"“The Social Reckoning” Misses The Mark (With George Civeris)","description":"<p><strong>Critical Darlings is going LIVE at The Savannah Film Festival!</strong></p><p>In our first live podcast recording, we’re doing an awards season kickoff at<strong> 2pm on Tuesday October 29th at The Gutstein Gallery in Savannah Georgia. </strong></p><p>We’ll be talking about the year’s awards narratives, the big races, and more. For more information and tickets, visit: <a href=\"https://filmfest.scad.edu/schedule/critical-darlings-awards-season-kickoff-live\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">⁠⁠https://filmfest.scad.edu/schedule/critical-darlings-awards-season-kickoff-live⁠⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p>The Social Reckoning is Aaron Sorkin&#39;s semi-sequel to the Oscar-winning The Social Network. It updates the story of Silicon Valley boy-king Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook to the near-present. Despite a more tech-skeptical public, critics and audiences seem to have rejected the film. Thankfully, we have an expert to help unpack it: former Facebook employee George Civeris of <a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/straightiolab/id1503599999\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">⁠Straightiolab!⁠</a> Despite much of the press and promotional focus around the movie, Zuckerberg, now embodied by Jeremy Strong, ends up playing a supporting role to Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White&#39;s characters, Frances Haugen, a whistleblower, and Jeff Horwitz a journalist trying to expose Facebook&#39;s growth-at-any-cost mindset. </p><p>We get into the inevitable comparisons to The Social Network, the lead performances (plus Betty Gilpin), and the mythology of Mark Zuckerberg as portrayed in both films.</p>","author_name":"Blank Check Productions"}