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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

357. Us Movie Review (with Evan Narcisse, Tananarive Due, Craig Laurance Gidney)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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0:00.0

Wired.com presents the Geek's guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

0:17.0

Hello and welcome to episode 357 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

0:24.0

Today on the show will be discussing the new movie Us, directed by Jordan Peel.

0:28.0

And this will involve spoilers for everything in the movie,

0:31.0

so just be aware of that.

0:32.0

And I'm joined by three guests.

0:34.5

So first up we've got Evan Narciss, who you may remember from our panel on Black Panther

0:38.2

back in episode 302, and it's our panel on Sorry to Bother you back in episode 323. He's written about video games, comic books

0:45.1

and pop culture for I. O9, Kataku, Time, and Tech Land. And he also wrote The Rise of

0:50.1

The Black Panther comic for Marvel. So Evan, welcome to the show.

0:54.0

Thanks, David.

0:55.8

The next up we've got to Nana Reeve Do, who also appeared in our panels on Black Panther

0:59.8

and sorry to bother you.

1:01.3

Her novels include The Living Blood, Joplin's Ghost and My Soul to Keep, and her short story collection Ghost Summer won the 2016 British Fantasy Award.

1:09.0

She teaches classes on Afro-Futurism and Black Horror at at UCLA and also teaches an online class on

1:14.4

Black Horror over at sunkenplace class.com. So Tenin Reeve, welcome to the show.

1:18.6

Thank you. And also joining us today is Craig Lawrence Giddney, who you may remember from our panel on Sorry to

1:24.6

bother you, and from our panel on Queer's Destroy Horror back in episode 173.

1:29.1

He's the author of the young adult novel Breft, and the collection Skin to Eat Magic and see Swalmi and other stories and

1:34.1

its new novel is spectral hue will be out in June. So Craig welcome to the show.

1:38.9

Thank you. Okay so let's start off with Evan and have you just tell us about what were your expectations like going into us?

1:46.0

You know, my expectations were really mid-range because, um, based on the trailers I've seen I knew that there was going to be kind of a

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