Facebook deleted this almost immediately. It’s almost like the ultrawealthy don’t want us knowing or talking about what’s at stake.
Just want to add one thing:
In countries with universal healthcare, this is a non-issue during a strike. Our access to healthcare isn’t tied to working. It’s an unconditional right for each and everyone of us.
The US system screws workers over in oh so many ways.
This is exactly why US companies fight so hard against universal healthcare; even if single payer healthcare is cheaper on a per-person basis and takes the cost away from the employer, it also takes POWER and leverage away from the employers… and they don’t ever want to give that up.
thank you for so much for season 2! It was beautiful and felt delightfully Pratchett-esque at some points.
I have a feeling that in the few years between GO 1 and 2 there has been a seismic shift in LGBTQ+ content in mainstream media, lifting it out of the subtext. Do you think that even a few years ago you would have been able to write and film GO2 the way you did? You insinuated that you and Terry already talked about it in 2006 and I cannot believe that an explicit, undeniable romance would have been possible to make with a big publisher or studio back then.
I don’t want to sound patronizing or dismissive. I was given a GLAAD award a quarter of a century ago, in 1997, for writing stories for mainstream publishers about gay characters (in that case for Death: The Time of Your Life). These were the same characters comics and stories I was writing when Terry and I were first writing Good Omens in 1989, which was only a decade before Russell T Davies’ first season of Queer as Folk launched on UK television in 1999.
I was very happy that the story of Salim and the Djinn in American Gods (published in 2001) was filmed as written in the first season of the American Gods TV show (shot in 2016 and aired in 2017 before we even shot Season 1) (and got its own GLAAD love).
So from my perspective this is the same stuff I’ve been doing for the last 35 years. I haven’t seen a seismic shift. I made the Season 1 I wanted to make. I made the Season 2 I wanted to make.
