Inside ‘The Social Reckoning’: The Surprising Truths About Our Digital Lives Revealed

Inside ‘The Social Reckoning’: The Surprising Truths About Our Digital Lives Revealed

What’s more exhausting—keeping up with social media’s villain du jour, or just waiting for Hollywood to milk one more cent out of a movie about it? Honestly, sixteen years after The Social Network dissected the birth of Facebook with all the charm of a botched root canal, we’re getting The Social Reckoning. Yes, you read that right. Stare deep into that haunting image of Mark Zuckerberg’s face and ask yourself: Do I really need another film to convince me the folks behind my newsfeed might be less relatable than sentient algorithms on a caffeine binge? Aaron Sorkin’s back, because apparently the world needs even more self-important dialogue and spectacularly awkward nerd drama. If watching fictional nerds chase Meta Crystals doesn’t give you shivers, maybe the absence of Jesse Eisenberg (thanks to a tragic battle with door hardware) will. Should you brace for a bitingly funny, weirdly heroic, and hopelessly meta cinematic experience? Only one way to find out—LEARN MORE.

Sixteen years after the release of The Social Network, follow-up film The Social Reckoning is coming to theaters. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the sequel.

Q: Who’s the writer and director?

A: Aaron Sorkin and, unfortunately, Aaron Sorkin.

Q: What’s it about?

A: As fans will recall, Eduardo sacrificed himself at the end of the first film to save the Tree of Harvard from the WinkleLords, but this film follows his now-grown children as they search for the remaining Meta Crystals.

Q: How did Jeremy Strong prepare to play Mark Zuckerberg?

A: He spent months learning how to give thousands of teen girls eating disorders.

Q: Who is Frances Haugen, the character played by Mikey Madison?

A: The Facebook data engineer who leaked the FarmVille hack for infinite wheat.

Q: Why didn’t Jesse Eisenberg return?

A: He got his shirt sleeve caught in a door jamb.

Q: Does the film portray Mark Zuckerberg as a bad person?

A: No, the film doesn’t portray Zuckerberg as having any person-like qualities whatsoever.

Q: Could The Social Reckoning bring about any societal good?

A: If we’re lucky, we’ll get another Jeremy Allen White Calvin Klein ad.

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