Garden State (20th Anniversary)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
"That's life. If nothing else, it's life. It's real, and sometimes it f*ckin' hurts, but it's sort of all we have."
20 years ago, Zach Braff made his feature directorial debut with a little indie film that won over the hearts of critics and audiences and changed the way female protagonists would be showcased in quarter-life crisis films forever. Despite the love shown to the film upon release, the years have not been kind to GARDEN STATE, and The Wives Colangelo are going to get to the bottom of why the tides have turned against it. Not to be dramatic, but put on your headphones because this episode will change your life.
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Article Mentioned
It’s the Ten-Year Anniversary of Realizing ‘Garden State’ Sucked (https://www.vice.com/en/article/its-the-ten-year-anniversary-of-realizing-garden-state-sucked/)
Interview with Zach Braff, The AV Club (https://www.avclub.com/zach-braff-a-good-person-garden-state-legacy-1850249613)
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Theme Song: The Sonder Bombs 'Title': https://thesonderbombs.bandcamp.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations and welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.2 | A coming of age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.6 | Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:18.8 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:20.8 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.2 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.4 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:25.7 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.3 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:31.5 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.2 | And I don't want to have to work twice |
| 0:37.5 | as hard for the same |
| 0:39.6 | motherfucking title |
| 0:41.5 | but I |
| 0:43.5 | realize |
| 0:46.0 | that I |
| 0:50.3 | probably won't |
| 0:52.8 | be so lucky. |
| 1:00.0 | For the record, lucky charms do not turn your milk pink. |
| 1:10.8 | They turn like a soupy gray. |
| 1:13.3 | So it starts off as like a blue green, like a gross blue green, and then it turns gray |
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