Lauren Groff on Writing ‘Matrix,’ Female Power, and the Bechdel Test | The Atlantic Festival

Novelist Lauren Groff (“Arcadia,” “Fates and Furies”) discusses her new novel, “Matrix,” a work of historical fiction that follows the life of a radical 12th-century nun, with The Atlantic’s staff writer Sophie Gilbert.
Subscribe to The Atlantic on UA-cam: bit.ly/subAtlanticYT

[@baronsalis7595]

Sophie Gilbert’s whiney reviews of the house of dragon’s show is so cringeworthy. Crying about incest in the show is so lame. What about all the brutal death Sophie? Animals are killed in that show, real and fictional: what about that? Want to watch a show that doesn’t feature any dark or shocking content? Go back to watching sesame street so you’re feelings are less likely to be offended. Your reviews are completely slanted by your need for depictions of life, even in an adult, fantasy setting, to be righteous and pure. Even real life doesn’t work that way. I couldn’t spend literally a minute over coffee with someone like you as you’d just irritate the heck out of me. You need to take a chill pill and stop being so offended by things. If producers listened to reviewers like you more, we wouldn’t have excellent TV shows like game of thrones. Please bugger off.

[@stannnleee3440]

As soon as the phrase "transgender allegory" entered discourse about The Matrix, i know that the new MATRIX movies are going to be garbage that i will trash. There was NO talk of this intersectionalism and transgender discourse when the original masterpiece came out in the the 90s. This intersectionalism is poison. This is not the MAtrix, it will be woke trash.

[@brycer3906]

This video is actually about a historical novel about nuns called "Matrix" rather than "The Matrix." So regardless of my thoughts on your original statement, you are correct that this is, literally, not "The Matrix."