Tethered: Portrayals of the homeless in Jordan Peele's Us
Channel: Andrew Venus
Date: 2021-07-25

Jordan Peele's Us, like his debut Get Out, is a great example of horror as metaphor. Ultimately it's about class fears of the homeless, of the way the wealthy classes demonize the poor or otherwise ignore them. But anyway, where DID those scissors come from?

00:00 Part One: Hands Across America, 09:33 Part Two: A Grotesque Parody, 16:31 Part Three: Human Too, 19:50 Part Four: The Escalator, 22:34 Part Five: Comfortable and Complacent, 28:02 Part Six: The Tragedy of Pluto, 33:24 Conclusion: Tethers Across America