People went in on Don't Look Up for being too "on-the-nose", but honestly that's because real life has gotten so surreal it's impossible to be subtle with your satire at this point.
Exhibit B: Avenue 5.
RT @benphillips76@twitter.com
A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/1549768004233314306
Like, this scene SHOOK me. For REAL. We watched this at the very beginning of the pandemic, when people were dismissing the severity of COVID and the necessity of masks.
https://youtu.be/skXaeucDYHo