A literal ack! from Robin because we were not recording for the first part of our conversation. Patrick engages in behavior twice-performed to discuss Joan W. Scott's landmark article, but then we quickly turn to more pressing matters, like how Marshall McLuhan was in Annie Hall. We discuss a recent Indiewire article which claims the new Locke & Key series is made by an algorithm, and the whole culture industry, asking why anything gets made in the first place. Then we play a suspenseful game of Is It Necessary?

CORRECTION ALERT: Robin mentioned that Crash was directed by David Lynch, but she does really know that it was actually David Cronenberg. Don't @ her.

Works mentioned:

Scott, Joan W. "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." The American Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 5, 1986, pp. 1053-1075.

'Locke & Key' Shows the Problem with Trying to Make a Hit TV Show from an Algorithm by Steve Greene

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