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Note: This entire piece is filled with major spoilers aboutUs.
There are many ways to interpret Jordan PeelesUsand the scissor-wielding doppelgangers who dwell within it.
That puts Adelaide on the latter end of the Xer spectrum.
(The Pew Research Centerrecently definedGen X as Americans born from 1965 through 1980.)
(The Downstairs?)
The VHS tapes I mentioned earlier speak to that upstairs/downstairs duality.
Each of those movies centers around things living at the bottom creatures that lurk beneath the sewers (C.H.U.D.
Subsequent pop culture allusions nod to the notion of hidden others.
Jackson and that video loomed large in the childhood of anyone who grew up in the 1980s.
Even the throwback references in the present tense ofUsare very deliberate.
Except Hands Across America didnt make the world better for the less fortunate.
(The total came in around $15 million, rather than $50 million.)
She was tucked away from the real world by the time that happened.
and admittedly, also sounded pretty stupid at the time.
Certainly that captures the sentiments of many in the lower and middle classes in this country.
I dont know what does.
Generation X has a reputation for being cynical.
Certainly the part of Adelaides plan that involves mass murder qualifies as cynical and dark.
Red holds on to her role as Adelaide.
The real Adelaide, our Xer heroine, has been edged out of American life.
