The FREQ Show — Season 1, Episode 2: Flying Cars! Robots! Racism!

Episode synopsis

For many of us, there’s something alluring about the rain-soaked, neon-lit streets of Blade Runner, but those streets are no place to be a replicant on the run. With Blade Runner 2049‘s highly anticipated release just days away, we take a look back at the original 1982 sci-fi cult classic. Blade Runner‘s tale of persecuted androids struggling for a better life in the dystopian cyberpunk future of 2019 is deeply concerned with matters of humanity and oppression, but how do race and gender factor into those concerns? Find out in this episode of The FREQ Show!

About The FREQ Show

What do representations of gender, race and sexuality in pop culture have to do with current social and political climate? The FREQ Show looks at today’s most pressing social issues to consider how the things that what we watch, listen to and play actively influence our daily interactions.

More episodes from Season 1

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• E3Crisis Pregnancy Centers Definitely Deliver… And They Make Sure You Do, Too!
• E4One Weird Trick for Helping Women
• E5My Milkshake Duck Scares All the Women from the Yard
• E67 Ways to Talk to Your Racist Uncle at Thanksgiving
• E7Is the Force Feminist?
• E8Do They Know it's Christmastime at All?