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One of 2024’s best comedies, now on Netflix, is balm for the internet-weary soul
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re the kind of person who spends a lot of time engaging with the internet. And if you’re Terminally Online, you’ve likely been involved in at least one blood-boiling internet confrontation. Those kinds of conflicts are often over small disagreements that truly don’t matter in the grand scheme of things, but the emotions can still be intense. That makes it hard to forget about certain online faceoffs, even years later: It’s so easy to get enraged when some idiot is being needlessly hateful, mocking, or just plain wrong on the internet. The peculiar, outsized sense of inflamed fury that hits us all when some anonymous stranger attacks us online is part of what writer Jonny Sweet and director Thea Sharrock are getting at with Wicked Little Letters, one of 2024’s best comedy movies, which hit Netflix on July 27.