In the fall of 2022, I was interviewed for a National Geographic channel series, Rewind the 90s. The interview focused on The X-Files, the concomitant rise of the Internet, and the experience of discovering, simultaneously, a groundbreaking show and a worldwide community of friends. The series drops in August, on the Nat Geo channel. After August 30, you can catch it on the Disney+ channel. My segment will be broadcast on August 8, in episode 4, “Future Shock”. It was great getting to reminisce about the show, the fans, the excitement of those days. Younger viewers, who grew up with…
So This is What the Multiverse Looks Like
Everything Everywhere All At Once is the very first science fiction picture in history to win a Best Picture Oscar. The very first.
Last night, in accepting his Best Actor statue at the Academy Awards, Brendan Fraser said, “So this is what the multiverse looks like”. The audience didn’t seem to get the reference, but I did. The concept of the multiverse is essentially that there are myriad alternate universes, each of which branches off from minor or major decision trees. His reference, of course, was to the Oscar buzz over what turned out to be an historical moment in Hollywood history. He was saying that his win — like Everything Everywhere All At Once’s win— was so unlikely that he must have entered an alternate universe.
If so, I’m glad to be in it with him.