"The story of our nation is pockmarked and littered with atrocities, oppression, terror, and violence. History is not pretty.

Yet the one thing that a divided country can actually agree on right now is that what's transpiring, in this age of the Great Step Backwards, is not normal, regardless of how those in power are trying to normalize it.

Not even low ratings can stop it. Network gazed into its crystal ball and broadcast back a worst-case-scenario diatribe that, if you paid close enough attention, doubled as a warning.

We don't just live in Howard Beale's world now. We're stuck in a world dictated by millions of Diane Christensens.

Fifty years later, Lumet and Chayefsky's brilliant work of art is neither a satire nor reportage. It's a horror movie. It's reality."