... according to Letterboxd, anyway, but your pals at Marvelous! aren't quite so sanguine. From Phil Lord's tyrannical rule of production to the tedium of infinite Spiders-Men and the so-facile-it-might-be-accidental queer representation — we dig into all the things that keep this (sometimes good) film from achieving the greatness its reputation implies. For this episode we relied especially on the following articles:

• Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’ by Chris Lee
• Get Real! Relatability on Demand by Matt Purets, Alisha Hines, and Yalda T. Uhls
• Laborious Aesthetics: Visible and Invisible Labor in the Spider-Verse franchise by Jordan Schonig

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