Best Supporting Podcast

We're a couple of Peeping Toms this week, gawking at the beautiful "Rear Window." While the Hitchcock classic features the effortlessly charming Grace Kelly and the big Rhea Perlman energy of Thelma Ritter, the true star of the movie is the elaborate apartment courtyard set. We take a meaningful tangent into the topic of past lives and innate talents, we imagine this movie as a stage production, and we warn you right away that the dog, indeed, dies in this otherwise fairly perfect movie.

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Colin Drucker

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Nick Kochanov

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We are still on a Mass high this week on The Best Supporting Aftershow as we dive head first into November! We touch base with our thoughts on The Great British Bake show, Costco, RHONY, and the genius of TikTok's Caitlin Riley. Its all about Rite and Kelly in our Best Supporting Assignments before we wrap up with our BSA's of the week where Nick spreads the word of Bel Gioioso and Colin can't get enough of The Good Vanilla!

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Colin Drucker

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Nick Kochanov

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After much anticipation, we can finally queen out on Fran Kranz's queen-level directorial and screenwriting debut, "Mass." Despite having no notes and still "needing space," as Ann Dowd would say, we dive deep into everything from the stages of grief each character represents to the importance of Jason Isaacs' dirty tennis sneakers. There's "no Dowd about it" that Ann should and perhaps will be nominated for Best Supporting Actress, but we were not prepared for the gospel of Martha Plimpton. (To say nothing of Best Supporting Judy and Kendall!) We can't help but sing the praises of this incredibly heavy and hard to sell movie that we're just so excited to watch again.

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Colin Drucker

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Nick Kochanov

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This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow the the hosts compare notes for their spooky Halloween weekend plans, catch up on The Great British Bake off, and a few other bits that comprise their recent media diets! Its all about Rita in the Best Supporting Assignment segment and then its off to BSA of the Week where Nick gives a rave review of Kelly Clarkson's new Christmas album and Colin lets us know about the most recent selection of the Saturday Night Movie Club!

The power of Christ compels us this week to discuss another mother-daughter Best Actress/Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominated horror movie, "The Exorcist"! BSP alum Ellen Burstyn is gunning for a Weston as Chris McNeil, either for her expert mom work or her jangly talking through tears. We have much to say about the nomination of Linda Blair as well as the recognition of Mercedes McCambridge for her voice work, and the overall impact of the Oscar winning sound design. Plus: watching this movie with a Catholic upbringing, some weird childhood memories of "The Heretic: The Exorcist II," thoughts on the use of the iconic Mike Oldfield music, a tangent about "Misery," reasons to revisit "Pieces of a Woman" and our feelings on Ouija boards as toys to contact the dead.

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Colin Drucker

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Nick Kochanov

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This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow Colin tells us about the much anticipated second viewing of Mass followed by a live Q&A with ANN DOWD. Nick surprises Colin by revealing that he has finished Work in Progress Season 2, and both hosts discuss the joy of the current season of the Great British Bake off.

In our Best Supporting Assignment segment, Nick is thoroughly creeped out by 1973's The Baby, and Colin reluctantly commits to watching more of the Squid Game at his own pace.

In our BSA of the Week segment its ties all around as Nick can't decided between Work In Progress Season 2 and the Rita Moreno documentary while Colin announces his continued love and admiration for both Ann Dowd and a recent McGriddle experience.

Pardon the audio this episode, we had some telekinetic difficulties but it's not like we burned down the prom or anything. This week we're queening out on Oscar nominee Piper Laurie as one of horror's most monstrous mothers, Margaret White in 1976's "Carrie." (The question is even posed as to whether she should have won the Academy Award over Beatrice Straight in "Network" that year!) We also have much to say about Broadway legend Betty Buckley in her film debut as Miss Collins, a sympathetic gym teacher fond of a face journey and a cigarette in the principal's office. Plus: Sue Snell and Tommy Ross as "good kids," Nancy Allen as the iconically evil Chris, John Travolta as her flunky hunk, Ellen Travolta as a brief tangent that has nothing to do with "Carrie," and praise for Pino, Priscilla Pointer and that perfectly bonkers ending.

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Colin Drucker

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Nick Kochanov

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This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow we talk High Tea and Kelly Clarkson's new Christmas album with a side of cancel culture. For our Best Supporting Assignments Nick is shouting out his love for Showtime's 'Work In Progress' from the rooftops while Colin enjoys the 'bakes' of the new batch of bakers on The Great British Bake Off. Mum is the word for our BSA of the Week segment until both of us catch up on Squid Game and Mass is released in Pittsburgh!

So much has already been said about Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and its impact on the horror genre and American cinema in general, but its worth also mentioning that Janet Leigh was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the ill-fated Marion Crane. While she's best known for her shower scene, the conversation over sandwiches with Anthony Perkins' perfectly played Norman, the constant inner turmoil behind her eyes while driving, and of course those beautiful brows make her truly fascinating in this role. We also queen out on the Hitchcock hunks, including cutie patootie Perkins, Assistant to the BSA Vera Miles as the maybe lesbian Lila, Bernard Herrmann's iconic score, connections to both "Halloween" and "The Blair Witch Project," and reasons to not bother with the 1998 remake. Plus: who we would cast in "Psycho" today, some wishful thinking about John Gavin's sexuality, and a plea to the congregation for "Mass."

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Twitter: @bsapod

Colin Drucker

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Instagram: @colindrucker_

Nick Kochanov

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Instagram: @nickkochanov

This week on the Best Supporting Aftershow we are coming down from the excitement of the 1st Annual Westons! Nick gives us a lower back and AC update, and Colin gives his official review of Moulin Rouge! on Broadway (Spoiler alert : he hated it). In our BSA of the Week segment Colin regales us with the behind the scenes joy of the Best Supporting Production meeting for the Westons followed by Nick formerly announcing that he has entered the L.L Bean phase of his life.