They tried to make "The Odyssey" the next culture war casualty. They failed.
Right-wing outrage merchants spent months attacking Christopher Nolan's epic for its diverse cast. Audiences didn't seem to notice. By: Josh McCormack Trigger warning : Much of this blog recounts an overtly transphobic and racist YouTube movie review. Earlier today, I clicked on an alt-right YouTube channel's review of “The Odyssey” expecting to be angry, but instead I was amused by its monotonous predictability. "Geeks and Gamers," a film and pop culture review YouTube channel with more than 409,000 verified subscribers at the time of this writing, recently uploaded its discussion and review of Christopher Nolan's latest epic. At the start of the review, Ryan Kinel, a content creator for his own alt-right pop culture channel "RK Outpost," asked "Geeks and Gamers" creator Jeremy Griggs what he thought of “The Odyssey.” Griggs — stone-faced, as if this conversation were going to be as difficult as a discussion about the political turmoil in ...
