Postmodernism is a hell of a drug.

He speaks of station wagons and airport Marriotts, corduroyed coworkers and trips to the grocery store.

And yet nearly every line wriggles with surreal comedy, panicky and elastic and preposterously alive.

White Noise. (L to R) Sam Nivola as Heinrich, Adam Driver as Jack, May Nivola as Steffie, Greta Gerwig as Babette, Dean Moore/Henry Moore as Wilder and Raffey Cassidy as Denise in White Noise.

‘White Noise’.Wilson Webb/Netflix

(Nobody casts extras like him, too; they havefaces).