Ep. 17: Top Gun: Maverick

Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the return of sincere storytelling, the societal value of 'mavericks', and the complicated relation between fictional heroic narratives and real-world militarism, in Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick.

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