The Most Depressing Thing About Don’t Look Up (Isn’t What You Think)

To be fair, it’s a strong look.

Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay’s star-studded Netflix satire about scientists desperately (and unsuccessfully) attempting to warn a jaded and deeply compromised world about the imminent arrival of an extinction-level comet, has already garnered a veritable encyclopedia of hot takes. But as best as I can see, none of them have so far specifically been about what is the most…