This is a brunch pre-oscers mini podcast that could take it.

Spoilers, but can't imagine you care if you haven't seen the movie and you're afraid of spoilers. There's no way you'd logically seek out a podcast about the movie. Let us begin. American fiction. Written and directed by former Gawker editor, Cord Jefferson, in his featured directorial debut, tells a story of a frustrated writer whose satire of modern black books gets taken seriously by liberal white people.

It has a 94 on Rotten Tomatoes with an audience score of 96 and runs one hour and 57 minutes.

American fiction sits eighth in betting odds among Best Picture nominees at plus 8,000.

It is nominated for five Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Actor, Jeffrey Wright, Best Supporting Actor,

Sterling K. Brown, Best Adapted Screenplay, Cord Jefferson, best original score. Laura Carpman.

I haven't, as of this recording, fleshed out how I would rank the best picture

nominees this year because I still don't even know if I'm putting like poor things

ahead of Oppenheimer. But this for sure, I promise when I bang out my rankings will be top

four. I loved American fiction. Interesting. I definitely wouldn't put it that high. It's in my bottom

half of best picture

noms, but I did very much enjoy my time

with this movie. This has like a, this is the

how did that movie get nominated of like this is the

disruptor I would say of the best picture noms.

Either that or Barbie. Because Barbie

disrupts the list by not being as good as the other movies.

But like, this movie is ballsy, takes chances, doesn't fucking adhere to whatever structure it should have.

It takes the piss a lot.

It makes fun of its demographic.

It makes fun of its viewer.

I think it's, it comes from, if you were to tell me,

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