Culture Gabfest - Oops I Did It Again
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week Steve and Dana are joined by Jessica Winter, editor at the New Yorker and author of the upcoming novel, The Fourth Child. They kick off the show by discussing Saint Maud, the critically acclaimed horror film by Rose Glass. Then they dig into the #FreeBritney movement and dissect a televised documentary by the New York Times that covers Britney Spears' legal battle with her father. After that, Slate's pop music expert Chris Molanphy joins the show to discuss Olivia Rodrigo's hit song Drivers License, which shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Chris is the host of the Hit Parade podcast.
In Slate Plus, Julia joins Steve and Dana to talk about the Gina Carano controversy and weigh in on whether her firing from The Mandalorian was justified.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen McHaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. |
| 0:12.9 | Oops, I Did It Again, Edition. |
| 0:14.5 | It's Wednesday, February 17th, 2021. |
| 0:17.8 | On today's show, St. Maud, it is a deep mood piece. If you had to assign it a genre, I guess you |
| 0:23.8 | might call it a psychological horror film. It's about a young hospice nurse who believe she's being |
| 0:28.0 | directly summoned by God. You can find it on epics. That's E.P.I.X. It's an add-on on Amazon |
| 0:34.2 | Prime. And then the all-American tragedy of Britney Spears is being told in a new |
| 0:38.9 | documentary from the New York Times. You can find framing Britney Spears on Hulu. And finally, we |
| 0:44.8 | discuss the Billboard Phenomenon Drivers License, a song by Olivia Rodriguez, with Slate's |
| 0:50.8 | own chartologist Chris Melanthe. Joining me today is Jessica Winter. She's an editor at The New Yorker magazine. She's also the author of a novel, Break in Case of Emergency. And Jessica, congratulations on a forthcoming novel, The Fourth Child. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. I'm thrilled to be here. Yeah, it's great to have you on. When is the fourth child expected, as it were? March 9th. It's |
| 1:13.6 | available for pre-order. All right. Superb. Congrats on that. Thank you. You're welcome. And of course, |
| 1:18.4 | Dana Stevens, who's the film critic of Slate. Hey, Dana. Hey, Steve. Hey, Jessica. Hey, Dana. Any guesses |
| 1:25.7 | why I didn't sleep last night? Because of the horror movie that I |
| 1:31.0 | forced you all to watch? Yeah, because Dana Stevens made me watch St. Maude. So I'll be kind |
| 1:37.4 | of groggy and out of it today. So thank you. And our listeners, thank you for that too. |
| 1:43.9 | St. Maud comes from the first timetime writer-director Rose Glass. It stars Jennifer |
| 1:49.0 | Ely is Amanda, a once prominent dancer choreographer who's now dying of cancer. She lives alone |
| 1:54.5 | in Norma Desmond-like splendor in a decrepit, English seaside town. To preside over her |
| 1:59.3 | imminent death, she's hired a new hospice nurse |
| 2:01.7 | who is calling herself Maude, having changed her name after an unfortunate incident at her last job. |
| 2:07.5 | Maude is as devotedly a woman of God as Amanda is of the flesh, and she sets herself the task of |
| 2:12.5 | saving her employer's soul in the little time she has left here on earth. Why don't we listen to a clip? |
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