Note (9-18-24): An expanded version of this post is included in Greg Dember’s book, Say Hello to Metamodernism!. Beasts of the Southern Wild (co-written by Ben Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar, directed by Ben …

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. — Arthur Miller

These buildings and scenes, collected in a Reddit group called “Accidental Wes Anderson” see the filmmaker’s aesthetic at play in all of them. They can be seen as embodying metamodern qualities: Unabashedly …

Right after the 2016 USA Presidential Election, we commented on the metamodernity of Saturday Night Live’s sketch where Hillary Clinton, as portrayed by Kate McKinnon, sat at the piano and sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in …

We love Liz Climo’s metamodern comics! From Tumblr

This article was written during the “Pre-2020 comedy career” of JP. His career took a pretty decidedly non-metamodern turn, in that as of around 2020, he became focused on …

As we’ve discussed, “That’s Awesome!” is one of our favorite metamodern expressions. Not “awesome” as in the over-used saccharine-hype 1980s usage of the word, but the updated 2000s usage that people use to remark …

If this song were made by anyone besides Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer, it might be too corny to be metamodern, but it is by Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer, so… we’re feeling obliged to …

Just another quick “metamodernism in politics” post. We want to make it clear that we do not see progressive political stances as inherently metamodern. (Nor, of course, do we see conservative …

Note (9-18-24): An expanded version of this post is included in Greg Dember’s book, Say Hello to Metamodernism!. We regard Sufjan Stevens as one of the poster children for metamodernism, and no …