Gossip Girl, Succession and now Trust. All of these shows are part of a curiously morbid fascination that fiction has with the upper-classes; the wealth, status and drama of the world that these characters inhabit. Written by Nicole Sellew and Natalie Westgor, on the surface this show seems to attempt to analyse privilege and its harms, but the constant drama, lack of remorse and severe unlikeability of all of the characters means that we’re subsequently pulled into a melodrama.
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Pepper & Salt was founded by Frank Schwartz as a satirical periodical in the 1960s in New York City, which unfortunately became lost between his work as an English teacher, the age of digitisation and family, only to be found amongst other papers in February 2023 (the header is an example of one such papers... Continue Reading →