Our recent decision to release an episode in two parts proved to be rather popular, since we've been getting into Epic Length shows lately. So what you'll see in the future is more of the same: both halves will be released back-to-back, so that you can listen to each segment at your leisure. Plus it should make the downloading go a little bit more quickly.
Now, over the next couple of episodes we'll still be talking as though there's going to be a break and then immediate resumption of the show, unless Claude can get clever about patching in some new audio (as he was--nearly--for this one). Then once we've used up that backlog of episodes (three more, I think), we'll be speaking more conventionally about the whole Part 1 and Part 2 of it all.
That said: this is the second-to-last in our series of film pairs where viewers are often asked to make a choice between one and the other, but we contend that You Can Like Both. Part 1 takes a look at 1980's The Return of the Secaucus Seven, written and directed by John Sayles. It wasn't the first film to be structured like this, but it seems as though this is the one that more or less set the template for the ones that followed.
In Part 2 we'll be looking at Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, from 1983.As already noted, this isn't the one that defined the genre, but it did well enough at the box office that it spawned a number of imitators, including one rather whiny television show. But don't let that scare you away: this is a fun film and it holds some interesting contrasts to its predecessor.
