Mark Harris writes about how audiences are finding current-day resonance in properties like The Handmaid's Tale, The Americans, The Big Sick, and Dunkirk that were planned and written well before the 2016 election. However, "this moment is coming into focus just as it's about to end. ... With the advent of autumn we'll move into a period in which most of the resonance will be planned. ... My guess - speaking of questionable forecasting - is that our relationship to Trumpian pop-culture material will start to change in the next few months. Critics and audiences alike can be suspicious of art that looks like it wants to have an effect."
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