Oh, the diner episode. Oh, the apprehension I felt about this episode. In the comic it is extremely nasty, not least because all the characters John Dee kills at the diner are extremely nasty themselves—which feels very suitable to the time it was written. In 2022, for whatever combination of reasons, it no longer feels transgressive for everyone to be awful people hiding loathsome secrets. Many of the plot points are ported over directly from the comic, but they feel different here, perhaps because the episode pushes back hard against John Dee’s claim that he’s making a more honest world…
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