Culture Gabfest - Vicarious Nails Edition

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🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Stephen Metcalf, June Thomas, and Christina Cauterucci discuss the new horror film It Comes at Night, the TNT Niecy Nash vehicle Claws, and Beth Ditto's new album Fake Sugar.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:12.6	I'm Stephen Meckhaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest Ficarious Nails edition.
0:17.4	It's Wednesday, June 21st, 2017.
0:20.4	On today's show, It Comes at Night, is the latest in a series of smaller budget, June 21st, 2017. On today's show, It Comes at Night is the latest in a series of
0:23.2	smaller budget, deeper-think horror films. This one tells the story of a homestead in a plague-ridden
0:28.3	near future. And then Claw stars Nisi Nash as the proprietress of a nail salon which
0:33.5	launderes money for the Florida mob. It's new on TNT. And finally, Beth Ditto is breaking out as a solo artist. We discuss her terrific new record, fake sugar. Joining me today is June Thomas, the managing producer of Slate podcast roster. June, hey, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. And we're joined by Christina Cotarucci, staff writer at Slate. Hey, Christina, welcome to the show. Hi, thanks for having me. Yeah, great to have you. All right, should we dig in? It Comes at Night is the new horror movie from young director Trey Edward Schultz. It takes place in a post-collapse America. There's very little exposition here, but much is disclosed between deep and moody
1:11.8	silences. A plague apparently has reduced civilization to a set of off-grid homesteads. The movie
1:17.6	takes place within one of those, a claustrophobic confines of a mixed-race couple in their
1:21.7	teenage son. Everything changes when a second family joins them. What follows is an exquisitely
1:27.3	wrought study in kinship, trust, and paranoia. Let's listen to a clip.
1:31.7	Before we listen to it, let's just set up what's happening. So in the course of the film, the key family comes into contact with another family. They eventually bring them into their home. And this is Paul, the father figure, going over the house rules.
1:46.6	And I think you get a sense of the intense awkwardness that the director evokes.
1:51.7	The way we like to run things, and we think it's important.
1:55.0	You know, I think it's important to keep a routine and stay busy.
1:59.4	Oh, God, I'm sure I'm forgetting of you, think.
2:02.6	There's plenty of time to work out all the details.
2:06.6	Yeah.
2:07.6	Overload.
2:09.6	Well, just settle in.
2:12.6	Yeah.
2:13.6	And we'll get working in the morning. And welcome.
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