Best Supporting Podcast

We may not exactly be God, but we are definitely here for Margaret this week as we queen out on 2023’s adaptation of Judy Blume’s “Are You There God? it’s Me, Margaret.” Rachel McAdams glows in her mom era, giving us so many nuances in her own coming of age as Barbara Simon. We’ll buy Kathy Bates as a Jewish grandmother in New York, but what if it was Caroline Aaron? We discuss parallels to Eighth Grade, PEN15 and A Little Princess, plus our own history being friends with the girls when we were 12, including the opportunity to play Mall Madness on a porch. We also tangent on the BSAs of Juno, performative prayer, sexy Jesus and the unlikely library of STARZ shows.

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Da’Vine Joy Randolph is practically lapping the other contenders in the race for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars this year for her performance in “The Holdovers.” And we may or may not quite get why! We try to figure out why we’re not holding strong feelings over Randolph’s grieving mother Mary, but we can agree that Paul Giamatti is at his Giamattiest and Carrie Preston is an A+ Assistant to the BSA. Plus: a very important alum of the podcast appears in a small role and this movie made us want a cheeseburger in 1971 real bad.

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There’s just never enough hot dogs in Todd Haynes’ brilliant “May December”! Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman are both monsters in sunglasses, and Charles Melton’s broken DILF makes us want to re-read Codependent No More immediately.

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It’s a Nancy Meyers Christmas this week as we take on 2006’s harbinger of the home exchange craze, “The Holiday”! Kate Winslet goes from Bridget Jones to Elizabeth Gilbert thanks to two weeks in LA, a formative friendship with Eli Wallach, and a sort of requisite love interest in Jack Black. Meanwhile Cameron Diaz spirals out in the English countryside till Jude Law shows up with those daughters and goes full Mr Napkinhead. The score by Hans Zimmer shimmers just enough to distract from some questionable chemistry and a lot of uncertainty about that happily ever after.

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We’re flung out of space this week for “Carol”! We have been sleeping on potentially the best LGBT movie on the shelf, with Oscar nominated and worthy performances by Her Majesty Cate Blanchett and the BSA with the dragon tattoo herself, Rooney Mara, as well as Sarah Paulson as Best Supporting Abbie and that Glassy score by Carter Burwell, We may not necessarily want to eat Carol’s lunch (so to speak), but we’d definitely go on a cross country adventure with her, especially if it involves staying in the presidential suite.

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We’re just a couple of Beths aspiring to be Jo, hoping to be Amy but happy to end up like Meg, to say nothing of Marmee! This week, we’re welcoming in the holiday season with a perfect early 90s cozy up on the couch and cry movie, “Little Women”! Kirsten Dunst nearly steals the show until Clare Danes pulls out all the stops, Winona Ryder earns her Oscar nod and Susan Sarandon finally brings up the topic of "Stepmom" on this podcast. We swoon for Christian Bale’s wedge and Mary Wickes' ability to detect a draft, and imagine our own sapphic retelling of the Jo and Friedrich subplot. We also have a lot to love for Hannah and a lot of concern for Mrs. Gardiner’s IMDb photo.

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We’re headed to a nursing home in Buffalo in the dead of winter this week! We’re discussing Tamara Jenkins’ darkly funny “The Savages,” with two Queen Philips, Bosco and Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney giving Best Supporting Sister, and some featured ensemble standouts like Debra Monk, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Margo Martingale. (To say nothing of Burt and Lizzie!) This movie brings up a lot of thoughts about aging, taking care of our parents, pulling a gay Golden Girls in Palm Springs, similarities to “Away from Her,” and whether we’re a Jon or a Wendy. (We’re very Wendy.)

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Awards season has unofficially begun with The Third Annual Westons! It is literally our biggest episode of the year, as we celebrate the best supporting friends, sisters, moms, men, assistants to the BSA, kitchen acting, score and more from this past year of episodes, induct a new batch of Queens and announce our BSA of the Year!

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We’re dancing with our fingers and finding out what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in France this week as we continue TarantiNovember/NovUMAber with the 90s modern classic, “Pulp Fiction”! Uma Thurman’s Oscar nominated performance as the mysterious and charming Mia Wallace steals the second act of the movie and much of our time in this week’s episode, when we’re not talking about lunch meat or Bruce Willis’s history of full frontal nudity. We also solve an over 25 year old mystery regarding a cassette tape and Amanda Plummer, have Band-Aid related questions and think this whole situation could have been avoided if Vincent just went to the bathroom at home.

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TarantiNovember aka NovUMAber continues this week with Volume 2 of Beatrix Kiddo’s quest to Kill Bill. The frenetic violence of the first movie gives way to a more plaintive western, but we still get the Texas funeral, Beatrix’s training montage with Pai Mei, the Budd and Elle one act play in a trailer in the middle of the desert, Daryl Hannah serving hysterical blindness, a potential “Hysterical Blindness” reference, and also have you seen “Hysterical Blindness”? Uma Thurma gives a similarly emotional performance here, especially in the final chapter with Bill and B.B., to say nothing of the bathroom floor catharsis. Will there be a Volume 3? Who would play B.B.? And is there a role for Lindsay Lohan?

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