"I'm Not Even Sure Satire Exists Anymore": Writer/Director Tom Gilroy Talks with Jim McKay About His Dystopic -- and Timely -- Short, #WaynesvilleStrong

With the rallying cry of its hashtagged title, Tom Gilroy’s #WaynesvilleStrong is a darkly comic and scarily plausible vision of a very near future in which low-wage work, enforced patriotism and the panoptic powers of the internet combine to create a pandemic hellscape that one laid-off meatpacking worker must delicately navigate, one videocall prompt at a time. The short was made quickly, in May and during quarantine, with everyone appropriately socially distanced, and to its great credit th...