BONUS EPISODE : Mosquito Coast with Melissa George
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Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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BONUS EPISODE from Vanity Fair's Still Watching:
On this special episode of the Still Watching podcast, presented by Apple TV+ and Vanity Fair, hosts Preeti Chhibber and Chris Feil discuss the latest episode, set at the elaborate Mexican hacienda where the Fox family takes refuge after a harrowing journey through the desert. What seems initially to be an oasis, with fancy bedrooms and even an in-house mezcal distillery, quickly turns sinister, particularly with the arrival of family matriarch Lucrecia (Ofelia Medina). By episode's end it's the Fox family matriarch Margot (Melissa George) who has taken control, shepherding her children to safety and wielding a gun in a way that seems to reveal plenty about her and Allie's mysterious past.
After discussing the show thus far and how it's telling the story of an American family on the run, Preeti talks to Melissa George about how she came on board the project, how she's playing Margot as a woman born of privilege who decided to go on the run with her eccentric husband, and what might come next in the remaining episodes of Mosquito Coast's seven-part season.
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| 0:01.0 | What did he do? |
| 0:02.0 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:06.0 | Back one back. |
| 0:07.0 | Be ready in 10 minutes. |
| 0:23.0 | Unless we do the right thing here, it will escalate. |
| 0:27.0 | What's about to happen? |
| 0:29.0 | Might seem like imperfect parenting. |
| 0:38.0 | Why are you doing this to me? |
| 0:46.0 | Why is he doing this to you? |
| 0:49.0 | Hello and welcome to still watching the Mosquito Coast, presented by Infanity Fair and Apple TV Plus. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Priti Chibber, co-host of Basic Geek Girls and Author. |
| 0:59.0 | And I'm Chris File, I'm a freelance writer, and the co-host of the This Head Oskar Buzz Podcast. |
| 1:04.0 | We're here to talk about the first four episodes of the new Apple TV Plus drama series, The Mosquito Coast, |
| 1:10.0 | which stars Justin Thoreau and Melissa George. |
| 1:12.0 | And later in the episode, we'll be sharing a conversation I had with Melissa George about what we've seen from the series so far, |
| 1:18.0 | especially her huge character moment in episode four. |
| 1:22.0 | The show is based on the novel by Paul Thoreau, who, as you may have heard, is also the uncle of the show's star, Justin Thoreau. |
| 1:30.0 | The book was adapted into a movie in 1986, starring Harrison Ford. |
| 1:34.0 | But as we'll talk about, the new series is really leaning in on telling its own story. |
| 1:40.0 | So Chris, on your podcast, This Head Oskar Buzz, you guys like to do a 60-second plot description for each show you're discussing. |
| 1:47.0 | So would you like to do the honors of walking us through what we've seen on Mosquito Coast thus far? |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, absolutely. I'll at least get us through the first four episodes. |
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