Apple TV+ Postpones ‘The Savant’ After Charlie Kirk Assassination

Apple TV + announced Tuesday that it would postpone the next first of The scientistA drama thriller with Jessica Chastain, following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

An Apple TV + spokesman said Variety that the series will be postponed to a more appropriate release date. He was originally scheduled for September 26.

“After a meticulous examination, we made the decision to postpone The scientist“, According to the press release.” We appreciate your understanding and we are impatient to publish the series on a future date. “

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According to VarietyThe series was partly inspired by a 2019 Cosmopolitan Article on “a top secret investigator known as scientist” who infiltrated online hatred groups “in order to end the large -scale attacks of domestic terrorism”.

The series, adapted by Melissa James Gibson, is based on the real profiled woman in Cosmo’s story, but carefully hides her identity. In the show, Jodi lives in a suburb of Cincinnati, and her husband, Charlie (Nnamdi Asomugha), who is black, is deployed abroad.

It is clear that “the scientist” is precisely the type of spectacle that America needs at the moment. It examines a mainly white sector of individuals who believe that America belongs to them. Fueled by hatred, fanaticism, xenophobia and misogyny, they speak cruelly and frankly in line of endangerment and violence against individuals or “others” who, according to them, are unworthy to be in their ‘country. Nowhere in the show, he does not mention the name of Donald Trump, and apart from representing white nationalists in a negative light, The scientist is a simple and non -controversial character study – and a well -paced thriller – about a woman trying to stop domestic terrorism.

While Apple TV + did not give a reason for his decision to postpone the program, the announcement comes about two weeks after the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, whose alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, seems to have been motivated by leftist ideologies, at least in part.

“I was tired of his hatred. A hatred cannot be negotiated,” said Robinson to his roommate in a text explaining his reasons for killing Kirk.