YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Thank Goodness Universal Pictures Dropped The Hunt. 

After all, movies make people do bad things. Guns don’t kill people, movies kill people.

And even if this movie didn’t emit some sort of mind-control rays to make coastal elites start killing people in MAGA hats on command, this isn’t the right time to release a movie like this. It might hurt somebody’s feelings. And feelings are important. (If you don’t believe me, just scroll down and read the comments.)

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I was looking forward to seeing this movie because I’m a fan of Betty Gilpin, after seeing her incredible performances on shows like American Gods and GLOW. She’s a star. She’s got great comedic timing, and then she can stop on a dime and nail a dramatic moment. It’s like somebody put Woody Allen’s brain in the body of Marilyn Monroe. I was looking forward to seeing Gilpin as an action heroine in a major motion picture. I really wanted to watch her portray a Trump voter who’s smarter and tougher than the people who scorn and underestimate her.

But now I’m glad that I don’t get to see this movie until it’s inevitably dumped on Netflix or Hulu. Why should I get to enjoy a film that uses current events to tell an exciting story? Why should I expect to be entertained, when it might offend somebody who hasn’t seen it and never will? Why should anybody expect that?

This is America!

As Jim Geraghty rhetorically asks, “Do People Think The Hunt Is an Instructional Video?”