![]() How would we know? More ticklish still, would we want to? If, like Reeves’s weary hacker Neo, we were approached by Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus, would we take the blue pill to return us to life as it merely seemed to be? Or the red that promised us – however terrible – the real? But the premise was what made it a phenomenon, the idea our whole reality might be a virtual concoction. Yet for a relic, it never slipped far from view – still a familiar reference in a world divided between internet and IRL (in real life), its characters endlessly circulating in memes and gifs, often as vehicles for the acrid politics that define our 21st century.Ĭharli XCX and Troye Sivan on the cover of ‘1999’īack in the 20th, much of the highest excitement was reserved for the visuals – the “digital rain” of green code, the bullets slowed to a stop while Reeves swayed around them. “1999”, the recent song from Charli XCX and Troye Sivan, features wistful lyrics (“Those days, it was so much better”) and cover art in which the millennial pop stars wear the black leather costumes made famous by Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss as they battled the machines enslaving humanity. By the time of the first sequel four years later, they were already half-vanished, replaced by a private army of Nokias and Motorolas.īut now The Matrix is a relic too, a quaint slice of 90s nostalgia about to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Payphones were still everywhere in western cities when the film came out in March 1999. Check out the cold open below.T he Matrix has barely started when a phone booth is demolished, left as a smashed pancake of glass and metal. The clip is dedicated to Hugh Dane, the actor who played Hank. So, despite his hatred for machines, Dwight leans in to take the blue pill, prompting Hank to yell loudly, “If the blue pill isn’t safe to swallow, someone should tell us now!” His beet farm is thriving, and he just got promoted. But as Dwight explains, it’s just not good timing. “The red pill is the cool one!” Hank says while protesting Dwight’s choice. To Hank’s dismay, Dwight chooses the blue pill. “But if you take the red pill, I will open your eyes and you will see just how deep the rabbit hole goes.” Life will go on as it is for you,” he says to Dwight. “If you take the blue pill, you will stay in the matrix. Also helping deceive Dwight one more time is a black cat, Glen in the warehouse (and his twin Ben), and Dunder Mifflin’s security guard Hank.Īfter summoning Dwight to the warehouse, Hank, channeling Morpheus, presents Dwight with the infamous blue and red pills. In it, Pan and Jim have developed a final, elaborate ruse meant to trick Dwight into thinking he’s in The Matrix. ![]() The extra-long cold open was cut for time from the season finale. To mark the show’s move from Netflix to Peacock, NBC released a never-before-seen cold open from The Office’s last season. On Friday morning, NBC’s streaming service Peacock took to Twitter celebrate The Office’s arrival on its platform. ![]() No, it’s not because you kept falling asleep right before it happened. If you’re one of the millions of Americans who spent part of quarantine bingeing and re-bingeing The Office, you might be surprised to find out there’s a part of the show you’ve never seen before.
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