This episode we’re covering Hollywood, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s newest show, now available on Netflix. Most of the discussion will involve spoilers.

 

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WPT is a podcast for adults; we use adult language and discuss mature topics with a focus on feminism.

 

Sharp Objects: recent or relevant cultural artifacts we want to recommend or comment on

 

Insecure (HBO) 

The Bad Batch (Netflix) - Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night)

Little Gold Men / Vanity Fair content mentioned: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/06/spike-lee-do-the-right-thing-little-gold-men

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast - Ep. 260 “A conversation with the Women Behind Watchmen” 

https://www.dga.org/Events/2020/July2020/FOW_Watchmen-0520.aspx

Girl In Space https://www.girlinspacepodcast.com/

Archive 81 http://www.archive81.com/

LISK (Long Island Serial Killer) true crime podcast https://www.liskpodcast.com/

Still Great, Bob? http://stillgreatpod.com/ 

 Mad Men on IMDB TV, which means you can watch it free with commercials on Prime

 

0:17:55

Peacock review

movies mentioned: Atonement and The Phantom Thread

 

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0:23:00

Hollywood

 

along with Murphy and Brennan, written by Janet Mock (journalist & trans rights activist), Reilly Smith (ACS:Versace)

directed by Murphy, Mock, Daniel Minahan (several HBO shows), Michael Uppendahl (AHS, Mad Men, Legion, Glee, Castle Rock, Fargo, etc.), Jessica Yu (Fosse/Verdon, Stumptown)

 

0:41:45

SPOILERS BEGIN

David Corenswet as Jack Castello

Darren Criss as Raymond Ainsley

Laura Harrier as Camille Washington, inspired by Dorothy Dandridge

Joe Mantello as Richard "Dick" Samuels

Dylan McDermott as Ernest "Ernie" West, based on Scotty Bowers

Jake Picking as Roy Fitzgerald / Rock Hudson

Jeremy Pope as Archie Coleman

Holland Taylor as Ellen Kincaid

Samara Weaving as Claire Wood

Jim Parsons as Henry Willson

Patti LuPone as Avis Amberg

Maude Apatow as Henrietta Castello

Mira Sorvino as Jeanne Crandall

Michelle Krusiec as Anna May Wong

Rob Reiner as Ace Amberg

Brian Chenoweth as Lon Silver

Jake Regal as Erwin Kaye

William Frederick Knight as Harry Golden

Queen Latifah as Hattie McDaniel

Katie McGuinness as Vivien Leigh

Paget Brewster as Tallulah Bankhead

Harriet Sansom Harris as Eleanor Roosevelt,

Daniel London as George Cukor

 

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Relic (VOD)

music movie fun: Josie & the Pussy Cats (2001 - HBO), The Runaways (2010 - Netflix), and/or Jem and the Holograms (2015 - Netflix)

Best of the decade continued:  The Neon Demon & ?

Halloween franchise (1978 - Shudder & 2018 - Prime?)

SO rewatch

 

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