Culture Gabfest - Prosthesis Statement Edition

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🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Stephen Metcalf discuss the Oscar-nominated film Vice, the Netflix streamer Sexual Education, and what to make of Netflix's "ratings" numbers with Slate TV critic and the host of Decoder Ring, Willa Paskin.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:12.7	I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest Prostasis Statement Edition.
0:17.7	It's Wednesday, January 30th, 2019.
0:20.4	On today's show, Vice Vice is the Dick Cheney
0:23.2	biopic from writer-director Adam McKay. The Man Behind the Big Short, it's also part of our
0:28.0	pre- Oscar mop-up series. And then Netflix's teen comedy, sex education tells the story of
0:34.8	a sex therapist mom and her nerdy pubescent son.
0:38.1	And finally, in the age of streaming, some hits are hidden hits.
0:42.2	They achieve massive download numbers.
0:44.7	We discuss whether that's meaningful at all with Slate's own TV critic Willa Paskin.
0:50.3	Joining me today is Julia Turner, who is, of course, Deputy Editor, the LA Times.
0:56.0	Deputy managing editor, Steve.
0:57.9	Deputy managing editor.
0:59.3	Fuck.
1:00.1	Oh, my God.
1:01.8	He scaled that slope and then he slid back down again.
1:04.5	Otherwise known around the office as vice.
1:08.0	Fair enough.
1:08.8	Okay.
1:09.4	And of course, Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens.
1:11.5	Hey, Dana.
1:11.9	Hey, Stephen.
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