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Ani Bundel: 'Glass Onion' is a delightful murder mystery — with timely, wickedly sharp message. - NBCNewsTHINK

made popular by Agatha Christie. Franchise creator Rian Johnson correctly recognized that the American 1% are the modern-day equivalent of the post-World War I aristocracy, and that setting murders within their estates mirrored Christie’s own era. The southern accented Benoit Blanc is Johnson’s modern Hercule Poirot, a fish out of water among the elite who is seen by his quarry as an amusing sideshow.

Johnson starts the story at the end of May 2020, with characters miserably stuck in lockdown. Would-be senator Claire Debella is doing TV interviews dressed only from the waist up. Duke Cody is a YouTuber fighting for MRA clicks; Birdie Jay , a celebrity who just made a killing on her new sweatpants line, partying in her Upper West Side apartment with her “pod” of 500+ people, which somehow includes Yo-Yo Ma.

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