…there appears to be no upper case Evil in the world of Nothing Special except that which comes from without, and the whole place is awash in a surfeit of Wholesome Family Values, the favorite liquid propaganda wash of the GOPee, the Democreeps, and the divers other capitalist swine who attempt to sell us on the notion that dwelling in a town like Nothing Special is a blessing and not, as it seems, similar to the experience of drowning in a pissoir.Lucius Shepard, reviewing “Super 8”
