Cowboy Steven Yeun stans, rise up! Right after the Haywood siblings commiserate over what must have killed their “Pops,” we get our first look (in this particular trailer, at least) at Yeun’s character named Ricky “Jupe” Park, who is talking to a small but dedicated group of onlookers at his desert rodeo of sorts. And yet, his ongoing dialogue might as well be directed pointedly at ourselves. “Right here, you are going to witness absolute spectacle,” obviously referring to the surprise under wraps behind him (which we know to be a horse in a big glass box, based on what we’ve seen before), but easily applicable on a meta-textual level to what seems more and more like another quintessential Jordan Peele event movie.
That “absolute spectacle” he mentions is intercut with more moments of domestic horror, including OJ’s horse getting spooked at night and running off into the distance, his close brush with what looks to be a tornado, the power to their ranch house abruptly cut off, and yet another blink-and-miss moment of the mysterious UFO flitting in between the clouds overhead that forces him to outright flee for his life while his sister screams at him to run.
