Extraordinary
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A warning, this episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:04.0 | The very funny Hulu comedy extraordinaire is about a smart but directionless young woman |
| 0:12.7 | named Jen who lives in the big city and doesn't feel great about herself. |
| 0:16.6 | She's dealing with those feelings of inadequacy and alienation by flatly refusing to deal with |
| 0:21.6 | them at all. |
| 0:22.6 | Instead, she hurls herself into a lot of hilariously bad choices about sex, friendships, |
| 0:27.2 | family, and more. |
| 0:28.7 | It's a familiar comedy premise, of course, but there's more to extraordinary. |
| 0:33.4 | Because in the world of the series, Jen is the only one she knows who does not possess |
| 0:37.3 | superpowers. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about extraordinary on pop culture happy hour |
| 0:42.2 | from NPR. |
| 0:49.3 | Joining me today back, back, back again is Christina Tucker, co-host of the podcast, Wait |
| 0:53.9 | Is This A Date? |
| 0:54.9 | Welcome back, Christina. |
| 0:55.9 | Hello, my friend. |
| 0:56.9 | Thrills of you here. |
| 0:58.4 | Great to have you. |
| 0:59.4 | So on extraordinary, Married Tires plays Jen, a 25-year-old northern Irish woman living |
| 1:04.0 | in East London. |
| 1:05.6 | Everyone else in the human race gets superpowers on her about their 18th birthday, but |
| 1:09.0 | Jen's still haven't kicked in. |
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