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PopCon #125: Villains, Victims, and Oz: A Review of 'Wicked: For Good'

PopCon #125: Villains, Victims, and Oz: A Review of 'Wicked: For Good'

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Thomas, Sterling, and Andrew compare "Wicked" (2024) and "Wicked: For Good" (2025) to the original "Wizard of Oz" movie."The Wizard of Oz" has been an iconic American fairy tale for well over 80 years. From the original novel to the silver screen and broadway, it has permeated pop culture across mediums and authors. Thomas, Sterling, and Andrew compare the latest film iterations — "Wicked" (2024) and "Wicked: For Good" (2025) — to the original movie and the wider Wicked universe and wrestle with what they are actually saying about villains, otherness, Oz as America, power and politics, truth vs. relativism, rewriting cultural touchstones, and more.

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