Welcome to Critical Darlings, a conversation about the award season conversation.

One contender at a time.

Please welcome to this stage, your hosts,ard lawson and alison wilmore

marie thank you for that spirited introduction as always we so appreciate it uh we are here

again as always with our producer ben frisch hello ben good morning and our special guest

alison's co-worker bilga abiri thank you for being here. Hello, thank you for having me. Now, we have brought you on to defend certain things. To defend certain things. I thought we were talking about Frankenstein. We are recording our Frankenstein, but we do have some, like, broiling resentment from certain parties who thought we were being too dismissive.

Yeah, our train nightmare and our ham knot.

Yes.

Oh, no.

No, I thought I was positive about hamnet, but I guess not.

But first off, I do want to issue one correction that a listener has sent in about our episode last week, where we talked about Bologna.

I quite erroneously said that

tony macdemaara is british he is in fact australian i apologize to all of the australians listening

and thank you for listening first of all um this is probably only slightly less egregious than

when on my old podcast i called killianian Murphy British. Oh, that is Irish.

That did not go over well.

I'm a dumb American who thinks anyone with a

foreign-ish accent who speaks in English

is British, which they're not.

There are lots of other places.

So, apologies to Mr. McNamara and our listener.

But yes, we are here to talk about

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