299 - Basic Instinct
Romancing the Pod
Romancing the Pod - Paige Wesley, Todd Schlosser
4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
“Everyone went to Berkeley.”
This week's most romantic movie is... Basic Instinct. This film has everything: way too much DNA, murder-for-profit royalties, And the interrogation full-frontal we deserved. If you love coked-out dance floor jealousy, wildly unethical psychiatrist hookups, and ice-pick happy endings, this episode's for you!
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| 0:00.0 | you better not have no planes tonight movie time and it's feeling right |
| 0:10.2 | you're looking for a love than last you'll find it a romance in the ooh, baby, had me at hello. |
| 0:24.0 | Ooh, I love you. |
| 0:26.2 | I know. |
| 0:28.0 | Ooh, ooh, baby, you're the wind beneath my wings. |
| 0:32.1 | Ooh, ah, I'll have what she's happening. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you for tuning into Romance in the Pod. You had us at Hello. I'm Paige Wesley. And I'm Todd Schlosser, and this week, we made you watch Basic Instinct. Paige, yes. This was the first time I've seen this movie. I hope it was yours. Yeah, I'd seen pieces of this movie, mostly just her interrogation. Yeah, I mean, I've seen that like on Twitter, you know, like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, gift or whatever, yeah. But yeah, no, I, I, I had not seen the rest of the movie and, oh, boy, is it? Perfect. Everywhere, all at once. Perfect. It's like a perfect movie. Yeah, no, it is crazy. It's all over the place. |
| 1:12.1 | It's nuts. Yeah. It's crazy. I love that everyone assumes Sharon Stone's the bad person because she talks to cops correctly. |
| 1:21.3 | I, well, oh God. When it got to the fucking end of the movie, I was like, if this is the end of the movie, I'm going to be fucking furious. |
| 1:30.9 | And then it pans down. |
| 1:32.5 | And I was like, okay, okay. |
| 1:34.6 | Like, all right. |
| 1:35.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:35.9 | When it pans down and it reveals that Sharon Stone is the killer, but only because |
| 1:42.0 | she doesn't know how to have the, I don't really want to have |
| 1:45.3 | kids conversation or how to break up with somebody. So when they bring up kids, she just kills |
| 1:50.9 | them. Like, that's what this movie says, more or less, which like I, I kind of like the ending |
| 1:56.1 | a lot, honestly. I do. And here's the thing. There are people who complain that movies today are much more explicit in their |
| 2:03.8 | storytelling and don't leave things up to the audience to kind of noodle their way out |
| 2:08.9 | of. |
| 2:09.5 | Right. |
| 2:10.0 | Sure. |
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