The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen McCaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest.

Your Boundary is My Trigger Edition.

It's Wednesday, October 9th, 2019.

On today's show, Joker is the Batman prequel Super villain origin story of your dreams or nightmares, who can tell?

This wild artifact was directed and co-written by Todd Phillips and the stars Anemaciated Joaquin Phoenix and the title character of course.

And then when Jeffrey Tambor was cancelled for his behavior, both on and off said it meant that his

creation, great creation, Mora Pfefferman, was for all intents and purposes dead.

What would happen then to the TV show transparent?

Well now we know.

We discuss its two-hour musical finale.

And finally, Wesley Morris was shaping up to be one of the great critics of his generation.

And then he admitted that he loves Gwyneth Paltrow.

We discussed this very odd choice with Wesley Morris himself, friend of the program.

Maybe we'll be able to refrock him, who knows.

I'm joined of course by Julia Turner, who is the deputy managing editor of the LA Times.

Julia, hey, how's it going?

It's going well.

Yeah, good.

And Dana Stevens, of course, is the film critic for Slate magazine.

Hey, Dana.

Bonjour.

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