Summary:   "Orphan friend." We dive full-on into the festive season by watching this year's most buzzed-about holiday film, Happiest Season. Also discussed: Dead Eyes, movies we know we won't watch, and the music of Lu Kala.     Show notes:   How a Queer Icon Made the Holiday Film of the Year (Atlantic)   I Love Kirsten Stewart's Looks in Happiest Season (the Cut)    

Recommendations: Andrea W.:  Lu Kala, Worthy (music) Andrea G.:  Dead Eyes (podcast) Lisa:  The Undoing (TV) 

Music credits:

"Glockenspiel Beat" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

 

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