Culture Gabfest - Blake Lively Brings Melodrama Back
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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show, June Thomas (author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture) and Dan Kois (author of Hampton Heights) fill in for Dana and Stephen. First, the panel tackles It Ends With Us starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni (the latter also directed and produced the film.) It’s a big, glossy melodrama laced with a domestic violence plot, and is the first film adaptation of BookTok star author Colleen Hoover. Then, the three explore Time Bandits, a new television show from Jermaine Clement, Iain Morris, and Taika Watiti starring, among others, a sublime Lisa Kudrow. The Apple TV+ series is based on Terry Gilliam’s 1981 film of the same name and follows a ragtag bunch of bandits as they thieve and travel through time. Finally, in light of its 20-year anniversary, the trio considers Yelp – does the crowd-sourcing review platform still hold power in 2024? This conversation was inspired by Jaya Saxena’s Eater piece, “Everybody Gets a Star.”
On this week’s exclusive Slate Plus bonus episode, the panel goes on the hunt for the wonderful, elusive “perfect cracker.”
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Endorsements:
JUNE: A very well-reviewed book from two years ago: Katheine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne.
DAN: The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson.
JULIA: First Class Tailors on Wilshire Blvd., which boasts a 4.7 Star rating on Yelp.
Podcast production by Jared Downing. Production assistance by Kat Hong.
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June Thomas, Dan Kois, Julia Turner
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Julia Turner and this is the slave culture gab fest. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Julia Turner and this is the Slave Culture Gad Fest Blake Lively brings Melodrama back edition. |
| 0:17.0 | It's Wednesday August 14, 2024. |
| 0:20.0 | On today's show, it ends with us, a romantic melodrama about domestic violence and the first big film adaptation of a book by a best-selling author and Tik-talk star Colleen Hoover, |
| 0:30.0 | Time Bandits, a goofy time-travelling TV reboot of the 1981 Terret Gilliam film from |
| 0:35.8 | Tycho Waititi, Germain Clement, and Ian Morris. |
| 0:39.3 | And finally, it's the 20th anniversary of Yelp, that artifact of an older internet that still wield significant power today. |
| 0:47.0 | I am holding down the fort on this show as Dana and Steve are both traveling, but I am joined by Culture, Gabfest, Stahlworts. |
| 0:55.8 | Dan Koyce, a slate staff writer and the author of the forthcoming book Hampton Heights. |
| 0:59.9 | Hello Dan. |
| 1:01.1 | Hello. |
| 1:02.1 | And June Thomas, slate legend. |
| 1:04.0 | And author of the recent book A Place of Our Own. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome, June Thomas. |
| 1:08.0 | Hey Julia Turner. |
| 1:10.0 | I guess Dan, you're just a stalwart and June is a stalwart and a legend |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah, that seems right I think we can live with that for today. We'll see where you get by the end of the show |
| 1:17.0 | That's right. Always aiming for that extra star on Yelp |
| 1:25.0 | It ends with us made $50 million at the box office this weekend, |
| 1:28.0 | a stunning showing for a mid-budget drama, |
| 1:30.0 | and one of those films that make people in Hollywood say, |
| 1:32.0 | huh, maybe we should make more movies for women |
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