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Helen macdonald7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() S: I think from there, as we continued to talk about Prophet and how we imagined it worked and what we wanted the story to look like, the more we realized how relevant the concept of weaponized nostalgia is right now. There were vials full of a silvery liquid in nuclear bunkers. And then one night I dreamed of a secret military program to weaponise nostalgia. We talked about it, and talked some more. ![]() When we were first toying with the idea of writing together, Sin was playing Control, a video game that’s built from the emotional power we accord consumer objects. Nostalgia and its uses was a big part of those conversations. H: During lockdown, Sin and I were talking a lot about politics, media, and the fiction, art, film and tv we loved. Prophet follows partners Adam Rubenstein, American Intelligence officer, and Sunil Rao, ex-MI6 agent, as they investigate an ever-shifting, otherworldly substance called Prophet that is weaponizing people’s fondest memories against them. ![]()
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