Frantic Rabbity Burst Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Julia Turner, Steven Metcalf, and Dana Stevens discuss the new film I, Tonya, Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with Slate's TV Critic Willa Paskin, and The New Yorker's short story Cat Person. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.0	I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Frantic Rabity Burst Edition.
0:17.0	It's Wednesday, December 13, 2017.
0:19.9	On today's I Tanya is the new indie movie.
0:21.9	It retails the story of Tanya is the new indie movie, it retails the
0:23.0	Tanya Harding, the Olympic skater, whose boyfriend Nick capped her toughest
0:26.7	rival. The film looks behind the trash TV veneer to the surprise
0:30.9	the human beings underneath, and then the marvelous Mrs Maisel is the Gilemore Girls, this one's terrific too.
0:42.8	And finally, a New Yorker short story of all things
0:45.4	goes viral.
0:46.4	We discuss Cat Person.
0:48.5	Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner.
0:51.1	Hello, Julia.
0:51.9	Hello, Steve. And of course,
0:54.3	uh, Slate's Hey Dana. Hey, Dana.
0:56.3	Hey Stephen. Dig right in, right? Sure, Digaway.
0:59.6	I Tanya is a very black comedy about the story behind the 1994 attack on the figure skater
1:05.3	Nancy Carrigan. It stars Margot Robbie as Tanya Harding, carrigan's rival, and Alice and Janney as her mother. It's told in a semi-mocumentary style and it is meant to
1:17.0	trouble and subtelize our feelings about what was a tabloid TV story.
1:22.8	Let's listen to a clip.
1:24.1	Does someone want to just tell me to my face,
1:25.9	you're never going to give me the scores I deserve?
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