Critical Mess

Season 2 Episode 10: Mac and Me


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Welcome to 1988 family favourite (TM) Mac and Me: Baby Mac gets separated from his alien family after they get kidnapped by the US government and gets co-opted into a feature-length ad for fast-food chain McDonalds. It is possibly even more awful than it sounds. Annie and Aimee take the chance to dig into where the money came from to finance this atrocity and then spin out into discussions about the blurry line between charity and product placement, the ethics of marketing fast food to children and how to make the ultimate copy pasta film. If you enjoy listening to a movie get shredded finer than a Big Mac's lettuce, this is the episode for you.

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Critical MessBy Aimee Knight & Annie Waters