Does this franchise live up to the hype? Is it actually good, or was it all talk? And at the end of the day, are we Team Peeta or Team Gale? Here’s what The Hunger Games does really wellĬonstance: I still remember the exact moment The Hunger Games got me. To that end, Vox culture writers Constance Grady, Aja Romano, and Alex Abad-Santos joined managing editor Eleanor Barkhorn and critic at large Emily VanDerWerff to talk the whole thing through. Ten years out from the Hunger Games phenomenon, it’s time to look back and reevaluate. They helped launch Jennifer Lawrence to megastardom. They created slogans that were used in actual protest movements. They became a pop culture shorthand for stories of inequality and scarcity. Together, the two series kicked off the YA dystopian boom of the late 2000s. The Hunger Games books were giant best-sellers, and the movie adaptations were blockbusters. And that book - and its two follow-up sequels, 2009’s Catching Fire and 2010’s Mockingjay - became a phenomenon. Ten years ago this fall, children’s author Suzanne Collins published The Hunger Games, a creepy, insidious story about a dystopian government that forces children to fight in a gladiatorial death match and broadcasts the whole thing on TV.
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