In this season finale, we discuss Joker, Sorry to Bother You, The Purge, The Lego Movie, Hereditary, The Witch (or the VVitch), Cabin in the Woods, Deadpool 2, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, Booksmart, Spiderman: Homecoming, and Avengers: Infinity War. Spoilers.
Stay tuned for Season Two!
Endnotes:
4:06 – Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign on April 8th, 2020, after the recording of this episode
12:11 – At time of recording, many stores were sold out of certain items such as canned food and toilet paper. As of August, however, the world is very much less “purge-like” although the pandemic continues.
12:51 – The First Purge came out in 2018 and is the fourth movie in The Purge franchise following The Purge (2013), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), and The Purge: Election Year (2016). A fifth film, The Forever Purge, is set to come out at some point in 2021, according to Entertainment Weekly https://ew.com/movies/2019/05/13/purge-5-release-date/
18:17 – Sony owns the rights to Spiderman in movies and agreed to a partnership with Marvel to allow them to use Spiderman for their movies. However, in August 2019 Sony temporarily ended that partnership before the two studios subsequently agreed to a new deal.
23:17 – It is
24:49 – They are
26:16 – It is worth pointing out that at least some of the “creepiness” of seeing the witch is tied to the way patriarchy renders the bodies of older women monstrous.
27:31 – Suffice it to say Annie is not “looking for her mom.”
56:37 – It is
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Music by Nicholas Pozzuto
