I used to think a scenario like this was possible until it became exceedingly clear that we’re already in a 21st Century late-stage empire civil war, and this is just what it looks like: A non-stop barrage of psy-ops and propagandist bullshit, punctuated by mass shootings and bombings and attempted government building…

Texas and California share not liking other states telling them what to do. I could see an oddball partnership based on that alone.

I too love deciding what a movie is from a trailer. I’m really looking forward to seeing that new Justin Long movie Barbarian!

Brits created Veep and Succession. They may know our culture better than we do. 

Maybe in the movie setting, Texas joined up with California after having its own in-state civil war and Blue won.

And that’s why a modern civil war wouldn’t split along clean regional lines like the last one mostly did. It would primarily be urban vs rural, with a handful of exceptions. I have no idea what the exact premise of this movie is, but if there are discrete swathes of the country fighting against each other, it’s not…

In what alternate universe would California and Texas ever be teaming up?

Don’t watch it then. Where is the hard work there?

You need to spend more traveling around California to see that lots more of it than just LA and SF like the Central Coast, Humboldt County, Tahoe, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Mendocino, San Bernadino, Inland Empire, Napa, etc, are absolutely not aligned with Texas. The only real place in California that’s culturally and…

And meanwhile, having lived in Texas since 2004 (after growing up in Vermont), the urban areas of the state are much more aligned with California than people seem to think. The major cities are pretty blue, and it’s just the small towns and rural areas (of which there are, obviously, a ton) that keep the state red. 

Just like America right now.

I hear Cartels and Russia take over Florida and Texas while fat inbred Americans fight each other in part 2.

It only makes sense Evil Ron Swanson has no mustache.

That’s like saying the country “didn’t need” Apocalypse Now or The Deer Hunter. Artists reflect the world we live in. No one’s making you not watch reruns of The Office instead.

Dude, this is all terribly negative, looks fun to me...also do not make the mistake of thinking a Brit couldn’t possibly work out your terribly complex culture, because, like, it isn’t. I do share your curiosity as to why the hell Texas and California could possibly find in common tho...”We have the most votes in the…

I see nothing to guarantee this is a dud, it looks lovely and everyone’s doing thier best acting, but I bet there’s a twist thier saving and its aliens or each side is being played by external forces (probably Madagascar, I dunno).

I’ve been into almost everything Alex Garland has done, so this definitely has my interest.

It’s clearly a Brit getting back at the times America misrepresented them on screen and making America pay for it.

if only to answer the question of in what alternate universe would California and Texas ever be teaming up

I recently watched Garland’s Devs which was wildly underrated; I figured if it had Nick Offerman, it had to be good, and I was right. I extend the same benefit of the doubt toward this, which will probably be great too.