The Neo-Noir (Mid)Western Normal Is Only Minnesota Nice

Normal, Minnesota, the flat, snowed-in setting for the new Bob Odenkirk-headlined action flick Normal, is fictional. How quickly the phrase “Odenkirk-headlined action flick” has become normalized, as though the world is full of 63-year-old former Saturday Night Live writers-cum-Tony Award nominees who live totally reasonable, temperate lives until the need arises for them to take […]