Best Supporting Podcast

“Silver Linings Playbook” brought home Oscar gold for Jennifer Lawrence and nominations all around for 2012’s Dirty Dancing for Manic Depressives in Philly. (Or is this some strange version of Garden State?) Jacki Weaver makes crabby snacks and drives a Cadillac, John Ortiz and Chris Tucker are some best supporting friends, Bradley Cooper is a babe and we can fix him, and it turns out that Robert DeNiro is kind of a great actor.

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We’re welcoming in the unofficial start of fall the best way we know how—talking about grief! 2010’s “Rabbit Hole” is easily one of Nicole Kidman’s best performances, and The Wiest as her mother with her own brick in her pocket almost makes us forget that Tyne Daly played that role on Broadway. Tammy Blanchard channels one of the greatest moments in this podcast’s history, Sandra Oh is a best supporting featured ensemble, and we have a lot to say about Debbie.

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We wrap up Family Movie Month with what can best be described as “Carrie” for kids. (With a surprising scoop of “Texas Chainsaw  Massacre” and an important connection to “Scream 2”!) Despite its spooky undertones (and Roald Dahl roots), “Matilda” is also an enthralling coming of age story featuring small legend Mara Wilson,  Embeth Davidtz’s Icon to the Introverted, Miss Honey, TV royalty Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, Best Supporting Jean Speegel Howard and Pam Ferris tearing the scenery from limb to limb as Trunchbull. (And that Rusted Root song! That cake!)

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We’re seeing double this week as we cover “It Takes Two”‘s refined identical twin, “The Parent Trap”! Lindsay Lohan gets the Nancy Meyers treatment twice over in her film debut, and Lisa Ann Walter makes denim shirts and Dockers iconic as Best Supporting Chessy. Plus Elaine Hendrix feasting on the evil future stepmother role, an unflinchingly cool Natasha Richardson, a number of clearly gay men, one of the Flo’s, an implacably off-putting Dennis Quaid, London in the 90s, Alan Silvestri and the lost art of a theme, and one brief tangent on Rizzoli & Isles. 

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Family Movie Month is returning to the heyday of the oddball 90s kid this week with “Harriet the Spy”! We first run through the roster of our own childhood favorites as former Nickelodeon kids, and spend some time talking about how great A Little Princess and A League of their Own are. Speaking of which, Rosie O’Donnell as Old Golly completely makes up for that time she rode the bus with her sister. Plus Harriet’s mom, Janie’s mom, a slew of references and referenced moments (“good soup”), the SLAP, the joy of revenge and the power of writing. And Emma Gerber, I mean, that hairdo must have taken hours.

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We’re kicking off what has turned into an annual tradition because we’ve now done it twice, Family Movie Month! This week we’re buying an old mansion with Bebe Neuwirth, rolling the dice with Kirsten Dunst and remembering a time when Bonnie Hunt was seemingly always on our televisions with 1995’s “Jumanji”! We also get a pitch perfect Patricia Clarkson making a meal out of the mom role, a pre-law Laura Bell Bundy, Jonathan Pryce getting the Home Alone treatment, best supporting screams from David Alan Grier and James Horner’s score sweeping us away like a living room monsoon.

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A month of international interpersonal dramas between the Real Housewives of New York ends with the Season 4 melodrama that is Morocco. We’ve got all the original wives, including Alex fighting with the strength of ten out of control camels. (Or perhaps a herd of buffalo.) Kelly is here to make it weird, Jill Zarin digs up two seasons of resentment and has a lot of architecture related questions, and Ramona is a blizzard of chaos arm in arm with a very different version of the Sonja slip sliding off of dining room chairs in later seasons. Also, don’t miss one season wonder Cindy, who has less lines (so to speak) than Mario in his 11th hour cameo. At the heart of it all is Countess Luann ruling the riad with a henna-covered fist. 

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We’re headed up to the Berkshires this week for another girls trip gone awry at Dorinda’s infamous and possibly sentient Blue Stone Manor. Ramona spends the afternoon dodging Elyse as an opening act before Luann takes center stage in, once again, a cabaret related drama, this time with an underpaid and overserved Sonja. Luckily the lady of the house is also a warrior. Is the house driving them mad? Is Leah the final girl? Is Len a ghost? Grab a plate of Chinese food and dig in!

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Things go south in South Beach this week as we take another trip with the Real Housewives of New York, specifically Season 11’s “Life is Not a Cabaret.” Highlights include coercing Sonja to go to an AA meeting with recently sober Luann, which sends her spiraling out over a sandy cabana an hour later, poor little Barbara K trying to get in the game, a relatively docile Dorinda and Ramona in supporting roles, and tipsy Tinsley nearly stealing the show from RHONY MVP Bethenny in a climactic meltdown on a patio that fortunately had nothing to do with those delicious looking lobster pop-tarts served in toasters and everything to do with Luann being a jerk.

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The only thing we love as much as Best Supporting Actresses is The Real Housewives of New York, so we will combine the two whenever possible. And there’s no better example of that than the Season 7 episode “London Calling” when cool Carole and a debut season Dorinda go to London to retrieve the ashes of Carole’s late husband. It’s an A24 movie begging to be made starring Vera Farmiga and Edie Falco, and features that Delta Lounge, the BONK heard round the world, a Razzie for Father Darius and that best supporting tea service. It was never a burden, it was an honor to recap this episode.

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