From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdat Recaps. I'm Greta Johnson, and today we are recapping the movie

Promising Young Woman. It is up for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director,

and Best Actress. Now, if you are at all familiar with this movie, you already know it deals

with some tough topics, including suicide and sexual violence.

So if that's something you are not up for at the moment, that is entirely reasonable.

Feel free to press pause and maybe come back another time.

Also, Peter and Trisha are sitting this one out, but I'm really excited to tell you about the people who are going to help me recap this movie.

First up, we have Makaya Johnson, who wrote the sci-fi book, The Space Between Worlds.

Makaya, hello.

Hello, thank you for having me. I'm so stoked to talk about this movie. about. We also have with us the author of Her Body and Other Parties and in the Dream House,

Carmen Maria Machado. Carmen, welcome to Nuredat. Hello. Thank you for having me. So, Carmen,

you also wrote about promising young woman for the New Yorker. So we are for sure going to discuss a

lot of the things that you have all written about. Before we get started, since this is a recap,

I just want to be very clear,

here is your spoiler warning. Either you hear because you already saw the movie and you also

can't stop thinking about it or you haven't seen it, but you're okay with spoilers. In either case,

we are going to spoil this film. There is so much to discuss with this one. I think before we get

started, I would be

really curious to hear the contexts that both of you first heard about and actually watched

this film. Mackayah, let's start with you because I think you saw it most recently out of any of us.

Yes, but I have been waiting to see this. I was at this indie theater that played a trailer for it.

And, you know, when you first see that, that trailer was such a twist

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