'Nope' Continues the Castigation-as-Entertainment Trend

Is Jordan Peele’s new horror-comedy Nope Hollywood’s answer to the Afrofuturism trend that’s all the rage in the museum and art-house worlds? Peele’s latest black-experience story line presents adult siblings, the Holloways (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer), who suffer the inequities of the contemporary film industry: career difficulties, historical erasure, plus otherworldly vengeance in the form of menacing extraterrestrials.