Happiest Season (2020)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
"I am not hiding you! I am hiding me! Okay?"
It's the holiday season and The Wives Colangelo are diving headfirst into the discourse surrounding the lesbian rom-com that people have Very Strong Feelings about, Clea DuVall's 2020 feature, HAPPIEST SEASON. BJ compares Harper's family to the Von Erichs of THE IRON CLAW, Harmony talks about why she's not much of a Christmas girlie, and together they try to bring some much-needed balance to the polarizing discourse plaguing this movie every year.
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Article Mentioned
Elle: Clea DuVall and Mary Holland talk 'Happiest Season' (https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a34877833/happiest-season-clea-duvall-mary-holland-interview/)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. And welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.3 | A coming of age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.7 | Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:18.9 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:20.9 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.3 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.4 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:25.8 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.4 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:31.6 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.3 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.3 | but I realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 1:00.0 | Aren't you? Aren't you so happy? |
| 1:09.1 | Yes. |
| 1:11.3 | Like, I know by the end of the movie, it's just like, no, they're nice people. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm like, yeah, but. |
| 1:17.0 | A big old but, yes. |
| 1:18.9 | But it could have not been. |
| 1:21.1 | You're really 50-50 on that one. |
| 1:24.0 | It is time for our annual festive film to talk about prom party. |
| 1:30.0 | It's the happiest season and it didn't make people happy. |
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