Critical Mess

Season 2 Episode 6: The Lure


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The Little Mermaid is all grown up in Agnieszka Smoczyńska's pop-goth mermaid musical The Lure (2015): the result is "confusing, unwieldy and aimless" according to Aimee. Two sisters come out of the sea and flip straight into a burlesque club in 1980s Warsaw. We've got huge slimy mermaid tails, vampiric teeth and bizarrely dreamlike musical interludes, all set in an incredibly sex-positive, neon dive bar. Annie and Aimee talk about mermaid lore, musical scores, capitalism, beauty and gender (as always). Turns out there aren't always more fish in the sea, folks!

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Critical MessBy Aimee Knight & Annie Waters