100 Gecs have become the darlings of post-genre trashcore for digital natives, and their iconic, ear-splitting “Money Machine” is the closest thing we have to today’s “Don’t Trust Me.”
With Netflix green-lighting any project with shapes and colors, comedy specials range from amusing to mediocre to feeling as joyless as a DVD enthusiast.
Series like Making a Murderer and Serial place crime in the eye of Millennial culture, transforming true crime into a participatory study of society, our psyches, our fallibility, and our strength.