unsettle

The shiny-faced, spaced-out humans of 2024 have ceded their place to an expanded host of critters, letting Coke dodge the “uncanny valley” where nearly real simulations of people wind up unsettling viewers.

“It’s just so unsettling that it has to be this way. Why are there 5,000 cars coming through here in a country that is so rich?”

The front-runner, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, has galvanized young voters and unsettled Wall Street with proposals to make New York cheaper.

"Familiar places can be turned into something uncanny, unsettling," says listing and architectural research director Charles O'Brien.

That coloring, distinct from more typical black-and-white, lends every frame a rich, unsettling appearance.