Ep. 182: HBO's Sharp Objects and the Wappler Test
Pop Rocket
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week, Guy Branum, Margaret Wappler and Karen Tongson discuss HBO’s Sharp Objects. It’s based on the Gillian Flynn Novel of the same name and is about a woman, Camille Preaker, played by Amy Adams, who returns to her childhood home to combat her personal demons and look into a number of unsolved murders.
Margaret is all about Won't You Be My Neighbor?, the Fred Rogers biopic that’s guaranteed to conjure up feelings of love and kindness even in this divisive time. Karen is all about the second season of the Netflix series GLOW, especially the eighth episode, which may be the show’s crowning achievement. Guy is all about the video game Fobia on Steam, which finally gave him the type of gaming that he can embrace.
The group will give their thoughts on the HBO series Sharp Objects, including why Amy Adams works so well playing a real person. They also discuss what makes the HBO television production model work so well, and why that might change in the future. Plus, they’ll introduce some new elements to the podcast: The Wappler Test and the Pop Rocket seal of approval.
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With Karen Tongson, Guy Branum and Margaret Wappler.
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Karen - Swingout Sister - Breakout.
Guy - Pitbull - Free Free Free.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello, hello, and welcome to Pop Rocket. I mean, you guys know what you're listening to you're the ones who downloaded |
| 0:14.0 | this thing I mean I guess this could be just coming on after an episode of Jordan |
| 0:18.7 | Jesse Go or something else that you have but I mean let's be fair we know what the deal is it's almost five years |
| 0:26.2 | hi we're gonna be picking over all the pop culture we love to love now you guys |
| 0:31.9 | with me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining are... |
| 0:37.0 | Margaret, journalist and novelist. |
| 0:39.0 | Oh, I'm supposed to say it in the beginning, what the fuck is wrong with me? |
| 0:42.6 | I know, we were just freestyling it on several levels, maybe. |
| 0:46.7 | Did you have some edibles before you came in? |
| 0:49.4 | Why shouldn't you declare yourself? |
| 0:51.8 | Exactly, right? |
| 0:52.8 | Margaret Wopler, novelist, journalist, dog owner, |
| 0:58.4 | possessor of like a very, a very California summer |
| 1:02.3 | wardrobe. Oh, yes, thank you California summer wardrobe. |
| 1:03.2 | Oh, yes, thank you. |
| 1:04.4 | White shorts today, breezy top, just telling the people. |
| 1:08.3 | It's knit but light, and it's just continuing |
| 1:12.0 | to tell Margaret's very ladies of the Canyon story. |
| 1:15.0 | It's like a summer poncho all those. |
| 1:18.0 | It is. I mean you need to have something that gives you some like cross ventilation |
| 1:21.6 | and around the pits in this 100 degree plus weather. |
| 1:25.2 | Margaret went to a silver lake boutique and said, what do you have in an oxymoron? |
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