“I don’t have to tell you things are bad,” Network’s news-anchor protagonist, Howard Beale, tells us, looking directly at the camera. “Everybody knows things are bad.” He was speaking to the audience of his fictional TV network, but was in reality talking to audiences in 1976. He could have been talking to today’s viewers, though, as in 2025, there’s a growing feeling around the world that things are going from bad to worse.