Culture Gabfest - Who Butchered the Goat?
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week, Steve and Dana are joined by culture writer extraordinaire, Karen Han. First, the panel reviews the definitely problematic, yet overall divisive, popular Netflix film Kate—which Karen wrote about. Next, the panel discusses when Hulu’s risk-taking Nine Perfect Strangers pays off and when it doesn’t. Finally, the panel is joined by Slate’s TV critic and host of Decoder Ring Willa Paskin to discuss the Emmys, the value of award shows, and the evolving way we consume television.
In Slate Plus, the panel discusses media they love but consume in moderation for fear of wearing it out.
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Endorsements
Dana: Netflix’s controversial and shocking Bob Ross documentary, Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal, & Greed, which was coincidentally co-produced by Nine Perfect Strangers’ Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone.
Karen: The first season of The Righteous Gemstones and how it speaks to the current American climate. You can catch up before season two!
Steve: A sad endorsement: The New Republic’s great article, “How Tucker Carlson Lost It” by Alex Shephard. A happier endorsement: it’s time to fall in love again with Gillian Welch, particularly with her songs “Picasso,” “Wayside/Back in Time,” and, honestly? All of the other songs she’s ever made.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.
Outro music is "I Can Still Dance" by Tigerblood Jewel
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen McAff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest. Who Butchered the Goat Edition? It's Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021. On today's show, the movie Kate is number one on Netflix. The John Wick style action |
| 0:23.4 | flick has been accused of anti-Asian racism. We explore both the movie as an aesthetic object |
| 0:30.3 | and the attendant controversy. And then Hulu has the prestige drama, Nine Perfect Strangers. |
| 0:36.4 | Right now, it stars Nicole Kidman as a wellness |
| 0:38.6 | guru entrepreneur whose retreat uses unconventional methods to say the least. It also stars |
| 0:44.1 | Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon, various others. And finally, the Emmys, they are a wonderful double |
| 0:50.4 | excuse for us to have Willa Paskin on the show and to do a state of the medium |
| 0:55.1 | segment. We will do both with Willa. In our third segment, joining me today is Karen Hahn, |
| 0:59.9 | culture writer extraordinaire. Karen, is always really fun to have you on our show. It's great to |
| 1:04.9 | have you back. It is always really fun to be here. Thank you for having me back. And of course, |
| 1:09.5 | Dana Stevens, the film critic for slate.com. Hey, Dana. Hello, Stephen. Thank you for having me back. And of course, Dana Stevens, the film critic for Slate.com. Hey, Dana. |
| 1:12.6 | Hello, Stephen. Are you, uh, are you fresh-faced and ready? |
| 1:17.2 | Well, ready to jabber? My zoom camera is off, so the freshness of my face is not under discussion. |
| 1:23.9 | Vocally and mentally, I'm all yours. Okay. Well, the movie Kate, which I'm predisposed to like, having named one of my two daughters, Kate. |
| 1:33.2 | But anyway, it's now streaming on Netflix. |
| 1:36.7 | So Carrie is a familiar, some might say overfamiliar premise with it. |
| 1:40.0 | There's a beautiful assassin raised from childhood to be a killing machine. |
| 1:44.0 | Her Svengali and Homicide for Hire is the only family she's ever known. |
| 1:48.0 | There's an unwanted sidekick, sinister Mafiosi, a twist you saw coming almost from the womb. |
| 1:53.9 | I mean, you know, this is not an unfamiliar movie. |
| 1:56.1 | If you're being even unkinder, this picture manages to be unoriginal twice over. |
| 2:00.4 | It's a John Wick knockoff |
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