Seen several mentions of Lone Wolf and Cub if you like The Mandalorian. On the library’s wait list for the Criterian Collection version.
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The Mandalorian
Watched first 2 episodes of The Mandalorian and to my surprise I really enjoyed it. Felt like it could have been a good sequel to A New Hope or Empire and drop everything else from canon.
Suddenly, even the most powerful people in society are forced to be fluent in the concerns of those with little power, if they want to hold on to the cultural relevance that thrust them into power in the first place. Being a comedian means having to say things that an audience finds funny; if an audience doesn’t find old, hackneyed, abusive jokes funny anymore, then that comedian has to do more work. And what we find is, the comedians with the most privilege resent having to keep working for a living. Wasn’t it good enough that they wrote that joke that some people found somewhat funny, some years ago? Why should they have to learn about current culture just to get paid to do comedy?