Natalia Antonova

Colorado Springs

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Founder and Writer at Natalia Explains the Apocalypse

Ukrainian-American. Writer. Advocate for the glorious Normie Restoration. Safer Dating Now creator. I do OSINT, but I make it girly.

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“Deeply frustrating and disturbing… and infinitely watchable”: Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders and A Deadly American Marriage

3 weeks ago | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

When it comes to true crime stories on Netflix, recent additions of Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders and A Deadly American Marriage both stood out to me recently, because they did something that few documentaries actually manage – which is talk to accused criminals.
“A carousel of an experience and a terrific work of art”: Sinners review

1 month ago | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

What if the most horrifying day of your life turns out to also be the best day of your life? Of all of the ideas that Ryan Coogler’s brilliant Sinners touches on – and trust me, there are a lot of them, and you’ll have to keep up – this one will linger with me in particular. As will the notion that music draws us into a place outside time, a place of immortality, in fact.
“Weighed down by its own sense of importance”: The Narrow Road to the Deep North review

1 month ago | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

“But this is for the Emperor. It must be done.”As far as WWII horrors go, we don’t hear often enough about what Imperial Japan inflicted on Australian POWs.Richard Flanagan’s novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, brought this tragedy to life for a new generation a little over a decade ago – and subsequently won the 2014 Booker Prize. This year, we finally got an eponymous miniseries, currently available on Prime.
“If this was a feature length film, they’d be throwing Oscars at him”: Eulogy, Black Mirror review

2 months ago | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

One of the reasons why Charlie Brooker’s dystopian Black Mirror series has been a hit for years, in spite of the fickle nature of what’s considered cool and what gets to go viral, is that it plays on our very justified fears about the evolution of technology. Human beings are addicted to tech, but also tend to have an abusive relationship with it. In the year 2025, we’re used to our data being sold, our privacy being breached, and our sense of reality being compromised.
The slowness was the point: White Lotus season 3 review

2 months ago | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

The third season of Mike White’s White Lotus is concluded, and both the nuanced think pieces and complaints have rolled in. White has felt compelled to defend the show in its third season – and rightly so. Yes, it WAS slow. Yes, it felt a bit pointless at times, like a long, drawn out exhale that dissipates in the air. That was the point, however. A season inspired by the Buddhist contemplation of the futility of our earthly dramas was always going to be strangely unsatisfying.
“So painfully beautiful that it is hard to handle”: Moab, Utah

Mar 26, 2025 | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

This week I am in Moab, Utah, which is so painfully beautiful that it is hard to handle. Moab sits in a valley surrounded by dreamlike sandstone foundations, with the La Sal mountains towering to the southeast of the city. Arches and Canyonlands National Parks are nearby, as well as petroglyphs and Bureau of Land Management land. The soil under your feet feels ancient and new at once. The stars look so bright and heavy at night that you have to wonder how the sky doesn’t come crashing down.
“Action is fun, and action is also cathartic”: Reacher season 3 review

Mar 12, 2025 | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

When I find myself in times of trouble, Jack Reacher comes to me. Well, in dreams he does, anyway. He usually puts his big arms around me and whispers something romantic such as, “Unfuck yourself.” Or, “Harden the fuck up.” (My ideas about romance may be slightly unusual.)It’s hard to get the full measure of the third reasons of the hit show Reacher on Prime so far, as we are only on to the sixth episode of an eight-season run, but honestly, it’s been an example of great television so far.
“All stories about evil have their roots”: Belle Gibson and The Search for Instagram’s Worst Con Artist

Feb 26, 2025 | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

If you liked Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix, you must check out The Search for Instagram’s Worst Con Artist. The former is a fictionalized retelling real life grifter Belle Gibson, who rose to fame after claiming that she was keeping brain cancer at bay by eating healthy, natural foods. The latter, a true crime documentary featuring real people affected by Gibson’s lies, is a bit less satisfying and neat. And that, of course, is the point. Real life is rarely neat.
Is The Substance an exploitation film or is it social commentary?

Jan 29, 2025 | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

For a person who’s not much interested in the Oscars, I am extremely happy that Demi Moore has snagged a Best Actress nomination for The Substance. The Substance is body horror at its best, and Moore is hilarious and vulnerable in it, as is her alter ego, played by Margaret Qualley. Yeah, the film is also nominated for Best Picture, but I have zero doubt it won’t win in that category. The Academy is too boring to go that route. But Best Actress?
“Just because a thing is not surprising doesn’t mean it hurts any less”: the Neil Gaiman allegations and American Gods

Jan 15, 2025 | globalcomment.com | Natalia Antonova

Some years ago, a friend of mine became a mistress to an Oscar-nominated director. She confided that he did not treat her very well. She also confided that his wife knew everything, and was being treated even more horribly. I didn’t want to offer any half-baked advice in the midst of an ugly situation – this director could make or break my friend’s career – but I did marvel at how a man who made powerful, thoughtful movies could be such a thoughtless prick.