Bill Burr, Aaron Sorkin and the Fiction of Getting Under Zuckerberg's Skin

IndieWire's look at 'The Social Reckoning' begins from a claim about the man at the centre of it: Mark Zuckerberg has shut out dissenting voices. From there the piece is about how a fiction gets built. Aaron Sorkin and Bill Burr discuss the construction of a scenario in which the stand-up gets under his skin — and, in the article's phrasing, Jeremy Strong's. That is a fantasy in the plain sense: a confrontation that is scripted rather than reported. What makes the premise appealing is structural rather than personal. A comedian answers to an audience, not a manager; there is no internal channel to exhaust first, no review to survive. The scene the film imagines is exactly the one an employee cannot stage.