"Bombshell"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For this week's main podcast review, Dan Bayer, Tom O'Brien, guest Nell Minow & I discuss the true-life Fox News sexual harassment drama that has everyone in Hollywood talking. "Bombshell" has a star studded cast which includes Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow and a bunch of others. We discuss their performances, the film's empathy for its controversial characters, the reaction that has so far received and more. It's not an easy film to talk about but it needs to be talked about all the same. Come and join the conversation! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of bombshell.
0:05.6	You have to adopt the mentality of an Irish street cop.
0:08.6	The world is a bad place.
0:09.9	People are lazy morons.
0:11.7	Minorities are criminals.
0:13.1	Sex is sick, but interesting.
0:15.2	Ask yourself what would scare my grandmother or piss off my grandfather.
0:19.4	And that's a Fox story.
0:20.7	Oh, it makes so much sense. Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. HR's on the phone, because you called me a skirt. Yeah, I gotta read that manual again. The attitude off camera was even worse. You're a man hater. Learn to get along with the boys. You're sexy, but you're too much work. I have a whole list. Will other women come forward? You may have heard there was a dust-up involving yours truly in presidential contender Donald Trump. There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her, wherever. Oh my God. Did he just accuse me of anger menstruating? Wait, am I gonna be the story? No. No. I'm gonna be the story. No. Nobody stops watching because of a conflict. They stop watching when there isn't one. I want to convince you that I belong on air, Mr. Ailes. I think I'd be freaking phenomenal on your network. I could pluck you out and move you to the front of the line,
1:13.6	but I need to know that you're loyal.
1:15.6	I need you to find a way to prove it.
1:18.6	I'm the bad guy.
1:24.6	You know why Roger's got that door blocking his office.
1:28.3	Man guy.
1:30.3	Man guy.
1:31.3	Someone has to speak up. Someone has to get mad.
1:34.3	She's all.
1:35.3	Fox News star Gretchen Carlson dropped a major bomb shell today.
1:40.3	What is she doing?
1:41.3	This could kill Fox News.
1:43.3	We need everyone on Team Roger.
1:45.9	Get it on.
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