It’s because they know deep down that Average Joes and Janes have come to despise them for the most part, and they don’t want the public’s hate to become too enflamed.
They know that Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris not just because of the economy (which has actually been in fairly decent shape for several months now) and the border (which was too wide-open in ’21 and ’22, but was arrested in late ’23 and ’24) because they know that Averages Joes are sick to death of woke shit and therefore despise Hollywood wokeys with equal fervor, and they don’t want to exacerbate that situation.
Given this intense current of post-electoral loathing for Hollywood citizenry (but not the movies) they’re figuring it’s probably smarter to chill and sit on their hands and wait for the winds to shift.
Industry-ites are afraid to praise The Apprentice because they’re cowards…plain and simple. I’ve been saying for nearly eight months that it’s a truly excellent film with superb performances by Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, but they’re afraid to acknowledge the quality because they don’t want to be seen as supportive of anything bearing any kind of Trump stamp, even though the film’s second half is quite condemning of the former and future president.
This riff was inspired by Steven Zeitchik’s 11.3 THR story:
