It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… Daisy Miller? This week we talk society (we love society, but there’s not enough of it in Europe), Peter & Cybill, and the Roman fever, all thanks to the 1870s it girl Daisy Miller.

Bogdanovich undertook the first (and only cinematic) adaptation of Daisy Miller at the suggestion of his friend Orson Welles, and boy, was it certainly a decision he made. A period piece made before the rise of Merchant Ivory costumes dramas and with a distinctly American protagonist played by Cybill Shepherd, Daisy Miller was not well received at the time. Partly due to the film itself and also partly because everyone in Hollywood kinda hated Cybill and Peter at this point. We try to parse through it!

We also talk about Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, the privilege of hosting Orson Welles in your home, getting jumpscared by the name Ezra Miller, doing impressions of Bogdanovich doing impressions of Cary Grant, and our favorite Adam McKay masterpiece, Don’t Look Up.

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