I Spy With My Glass Eye

The Knives Out franchise stymies political consciousness by gratifying the desire for reality to conform to the liberal viewer’s fantasies.

When Benoit Blanc, star of the Knives Out franchise, made his cinematic debut in the aftermath of the Mueller investigation, it should have been obvious that he was fulfilling a liberal fantasy. He acts like a dumb hick, but he’s deemed intelligent enough to get profiled in the New Yorker. He issues pseudo-profundities, like, “The complexity and the gra…