Culture Gabfest - Revenge is a Dish Best Served French
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🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week Stephen, Dana, and Julia start by discussing Promising Young Woman, the revenge thriller starring Carey Mulligan and written and directed by Emerald Fennell. Then Slate culture writer Karen Han joins the show to talk about the French heist series Lupin, which has been firmly situated on Netflix's top 10 list since it premiered. After that, the hosts reflect on a recent article in the New York Times Magazine by Kyle Chayka titled, How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen McHaff and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest. |
| 0:12.8 | Revenge is a dish best served French edition. |
| 0:15.9 | It's Wednesday, January 27, 2021. |
| 0:19.7 | On today's show, Promising Young Woman is a dark revenge thriller. Oh, is it dark? |
| 0:24.4 | I mean, we are talking dark. It stars Carrie Mulligan. It's also pedigreed. It's a writer-director with |
| 0:31.4 | season two showrunner for Killing Eve. It's in theaters now. You can also watch it on Amazon Prime for a fee. |
| 0:37.3 | And then Netflix has another |
| 0:39.5 | huge hit in Loupin, a French series about a dashing gentleman thief seeking justice on behalf of |
| 0:45.2 | his beloved but badly wronged father. It stars Omar C. And finally, we discuss a provocative |
| 0:51.0 | Times magazine piece, The Quest for Nothingness. So can't wait to talk about nothingness. |
| 0:57.3 | Joining me today is the Deputy Managing Editor of the LA Times, Julia Turner. |
| 1:01.4 | Hey, Julia. |
| 1:02.4 | Hello. |
| 1:03.5 | And of course, Dana Stevens Slate's film critic. |
| 1:05.9 | Hey, Dana. |
| 1:07.1 | Bonjour, Steven. |
| 1:08.2 | Ah, bonjour. |
| 1:08.9 | Let's dive in. |
| 1:14.6 | In promising young woman, Carrie Mulligan plays Cassie. Cassie is 30. |
| 1:15.6 | She's super smart. |
| 1:16.6 | Used to be a med student and a good one. |
| 1:18.6 | Now she lives at home with her parents. |
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