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Clarkson, John Legend, Blake
Shelton and Gwen Stefani all vie to
discover and coach the next singing
phenomenon on the second night of
blind auditions.

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X-ray, Leah grapples with the
possibility that Ali’s condition is
progressing.

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the season, and 10 of the men
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to a stop.

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across the political spectrum to see

how age may be a greater dividing

factor than political affiliation.

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The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula:

Resurrection (Shudder) A

Halloween-themed spinoff special

of the horror-drag competition

“Dragula.” Competitors from the

first three seasons return to

compete for a spot in Season 4 and

a $20,000 cash prize.

Whose Vote Counts (PBS at 10)

“Frontline” presents an

investigation of voter registration

laws that can ultimately determine

any election’s outcome and

explores how the pandemic is being

used to sway turnout.

RETURNING

Dead Silent (ID at 10) Season 4.

LATE NIGHT

TV HIGHLIGHTS

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Whose Vote Counts (PBS at 9) “Frontline” presents an investigation of
voter registration laws that can ultimately determine any election’s
outcome and explores how the pandemic is being used to sway turnout.

when Furie sues over the use of

Pepe’s image, or when young

Hong Kong protesters adopt the

character as a symbol of optimis-

tic hope.

In one poignant scene, Furie is

sitting at a table at Comic Con

Copenhagen 2018, passively ob-

serving the Danish cosplayers,

when a fellow cartoonist asks

whether he is the creator of Pepe

the Frog. When Furie says yes,

the table-mate replies sympa-

thetically: “It must suck for you

that he has become hijacked by

4chan” message boards.

“It doesn’t really suck,” re-

sponds Furie, the soft timbre of

his voice seeming to search for

a philosophical spin. “Nothing

is forever.” And the cartoonist

later says to the camera: “I’m

just a spectator to how things

can mutate and evolve on the

Internet.”

As Furie evolves during the

film’s journey, though, the one-

time San Francisco cartoonist

realizes his laid-back ethos about

sharing art — influenced by how

Jerry Garcia fans once traded

mix tapes, Jones says — doesn’t

address what battles he should

consider fighting. Even a partial

attempt at reclamation means

lawyering up over copyright pro-

tection, and we see Furie travel

to New York in his mission to get

Pepe, saddled with fresh “Nazi

frog” associations, removed from

the Anti-Defamation League’s

database of hate symbols.

Many cartoonists are observ-

ers by nature, though, so at

times, the film’s imagery comes

to the fore to effectively speak on

the reticent Furie’s behalf. “He

can’t reclaim Pepe,” Jones said,

“but he can try to set the record

straight” through “Feels Good

Man” (the title being a reference

to Pepe dialogue crucial to the

launch of the meme).

“It’s been a relief to watch the

movie as if I was a spectator and

not myself,” Furie told The Wash-

ington Post via email. “I can see

more sides that way, and have a

wider perspective and cultivate a

deeper understanding of my sit-

uation and our shared cultural

situation.” (The film’s inter-

viewed experts include “BoJack

Horseman” cartoonist Lisa

Hanawalt and the Atlantic writer

Adam Serwer.)

In the eyes of the filmmakers,

Pepe is a stark reflection of our

cultural situation, and as occult

expert John Michael Greer says

in the movie, the character is

even a digital-culture omen to be

heeded.

The Internet “deliberately al-

most shamed us out of our ability

to feel empathy and connectivity

and turned us into these rabid

connoisseurs of digital bites,”

said Angelini (“My Friend Dah-

mer”), adding that the film is

“this reaffirmation of reality” as

“the digital world is now inform-

ing our real life.”

Furie, meanwhile, urges view-

ers to glean a central message:

“Don’t believe everything that

you think. We should question

everything — even our own

thoughts.”

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American politics.
First-time director Arthur
Jones calls his movie a case study
into what occurred optically dur-
ing the 2016 election, told
through the prism of “how a joke
on 4chan became this larger
story about how trolling moved
off message boards and into
mainstream Republican poli-
tics.” By October of that year,
Donald Trump Jr. proudly posted
to Instagram a “Deplorables”
image featuring Pepe with Trum-
pian hair.
“Now, four years later, a joke
that started on 4chan is moving
into mainstream politics again,
but it’s not about trolling — it’s
about misinformation,” Jones
said by Zoom from Los Angeles.
“So this s tory might seem silly...
but it’s actually something that
still has a lot of cultural potency.”
Whether trained on an artist’s
table or a president’s podium,
“Feels Good Man” chronicles an
ongoing war over who gets to
define what a simple frog — or a
simple fact — means, especially
when modern existence can
seem to flip rather amphibiously
between digital worlds and real
life.
The relevance of this film, says
writer-producer Giorgio Angeli-
ni, is sparked by a current urgen-
cy: “We have to find ways to take
back our consensus reality.”
The act of taking back is
always central to the documen-
tary’s narrative — whether it’s

PEPE FROM C1

How a Pepe the Frog movie speaks to a divisive moment in American politics

PHOTOS BY READY FICTIONS

California cartoonist Matt Furie, seen in the documentary “Feels

Good Man,” created the globally known character Pepe the Frog.

His creation was introduced in the Myspace-sprung slacker-life

comic “Boy’s Club” but was later co-opted by the alt-right.

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