Culture Gabfest - Live From Sydney Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Julia Turner, Stephen Metcalf, and Dana Stevens are in Sydney Australia for the first of two Australian live shows! They discuss the film Baywatch, The novel and tv series The Handmaid's Tale, and the state of arts criticism with pulitzer-winning critic Sebastian Smee.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest live from Sydney edition. It's Wednesday, |
| 0:26.6 | it's Wednesday, May 31, 2017. |
| 0:29.6 | On today's show, is there nothing that can't be rebooted and coughed up out of the |
| 0:35.0 | maw of Hollywood? |
| 0:36.5 | We now know the answer is no, thanks to a movie |
| 0:40.0 | called Baywatch. |
| 0:43.0 | And then Margaret Atwood's now classic dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale, has been adapted |
| 0:47.5 | by Hulu into a streaming series starring Elizabeth Moss of Madden fame. |
| 0:54.1 | And finally, the media landscape is changing, |
| 0:57.2 | is criticism changing with it? |
| 0:59.5 | Specifically, is criticism getting meaner? |
| 1:02.0 | Did it even need to be mean in the first place? |
| 1:04.3 | Does it take a kind of cruel streak |
| 1:06.1 | or a sliver of ice in your heart to be a critic? |
| 1:10.2 | Dana's living proof. |
| 1:13.6 | But however, tonight we're going to discuss the art |
| 1:15.8 | and the state of criticism with Sebastian Smeet. |
| 1:24.2 | Joining me tonight is Slate's editor-in-chief, Julia Turner. |
| 1:28.3 | Hi, Steve. |
| 1:33.3 | And of course, Slate's movie critic, Dana Steven. |
| 1:36.3 | Hello, Steven. |
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