Low Key

By Aaron Lanton

Aaron Lanton, Keith Dennie, and Tim Molloy look at pop culture through a racial lens, focusing on the low-key things some people might miss to discuss their deeper meanings.

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The podcast currently has 212 episodes available.

Low Key episodes:

June 10, 2025 The Edgelord Games of Mountainhead
What is the message of Mountainhead? Aaron and Tim talk about the film as a condemnation of the gamification of everything in Jesse Armstrong's Succession successor.
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39min
May 22, 2025 We Like Murderbot Well Enough
Murderbot is a security droid who is happy to just watch his shows, and so are we. Without being security droids.
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47min
May 08, 2025 Magazine Dreams and the Return of Jonathan Majors
Sometimes we talk about movies that are a good hang. Elijah Bynum's Magazine Dreams is not one of them, but it is a fascinating watch with an astonishing performance by Jonathan Majors. At one point it looked like he could win an Oscar for the role — before legal troubles nearly ended his career. Now Magazine Dreams is part of a comeback attempt.
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54min
April 25, 2025 Sinners Doesn't Have All the Answers
We talk about the excellent of Sinners, the bad version of Sinners, and letting the right and wrong ones in.
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1h 20min
April 16, 2025 Common Side Effects! Righteous Gemstones! A 1979 Jack the Ripper Movie!
Due to various calamities we couldn't find time to watch the same show or movie this week, so instead Aaron, Keith and Tim are just listing off a bunch of cool stuff they like and recommend. We also discuss great Disney sequels, the Righteous Gemstones, hip-hop Percocet era, and why Frozen 2 is, no kidding, the wokest movie ever.
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57min
March 17, 2025 Mickey 17 Review
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33min
March 10, 2025 When Your Younger Self Attacks Your Older Self
THE SUBSTANCE is almost a perfect partner to the last film we discussed, A DIFFERENT MAN. It's about aging and beauty standards, but also the kindnesses and harms we do to our future selves.
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1h 15min
February 24, 2025 A Different Man
A Different Man stars Sebastian Stan as Edward, an aspiring actor with neurofibromatosis who, through a new procedure, gets the face he's always wanted. But then he meets a different man, Oswald (Adam Pearson) who thrives in a play based on Edward's previous life — and makes Edward question everything about himself.
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1h 6min
January 29, 2025 Creature Commandos Controls the Future of the DC Universe
We like Creature Commandos, and are endlessly amused that it is the first project under DC Studios leader James Gunn to be canon in the new DC Universe.

We also have some thoughts on the weird relationship between Batman and Robin.
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45min
January 17, 2025 We're Off to See the Wicked
We also plan to rewatch The Wiz sometime soon.
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50min

FAQs about Low Key:

How many episodes does Low Key have?

The podcast currently has 212 episodes available.