Apple TV + series “Little America” returned to screens for a second season Friday, Dec. 9, with the aim of challenging the American dream, creator Sian Heder told AFP.
“One of the themes we were really interested in exploring this year was, what happens when the American Dream doesn’t work out the way that you expect it to,” said Heder.
For Heder—the director of 2021 movie “CODA,” which won three Oscars this year, including best picture—the “whole idea of America of like, pull him up by your bootstraps and capitalism, and it’s up to you to make it work out, you know, is a huge strain.”“This is the land of opportunity, but in a way. There’s not a lot of safety nets in this country to catch you if you don’t succeed,” she added.
The first season was released in early 2020, when ex-president Donald Trump still occupied the White House. “There was almost a reactivity to all the negativity where we felt that we needed to be very optimistic and positive about this country and take it back, in a way.” “I think this season there’s probably more freedom to explore the nuances and complications of whatever the American dream means,” said the 45-year-old Heder.Some of the episodes are humorous and light-hearted, such as the one where a Sri Lankan immigrant in Texas participates in a car-kissing contest. The contestant who keeps his or her lips pressed to the car the longest wins the car.
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