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Obsessed: The Podcast

The Daily Beast

Tv & Film

4.5686 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Obsessed heads to Sundance for a deep dive into the festival’s final year in Park City—breaking down the buzziest films, the glamour-versus-grind reality of the fest, and what Sundance still means for indie cinema as it prepares to move on. Then, comedian and actress Maria Bamford joins the show to talk about premiering her deeply personal documentary Paralyzed by Hope at Sundance, reflecting on vulnerability, career highs and lows, and the moments she wishes audiences had missed. From Oscar chatter to emotional honesty, it’s a Sundance episode that’s both inside baseball and disarmingly human. Follow Kevin Fallon on Instagram @kpfallon Follow Matt Wilstein on Instagram @mattjwilstein New episodes every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; early drops on YouTube. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Kevin Fallon, and this is Obsessed the Podcast, where we guide you through all the TV shows, movies, and celebrity nonsense that we think is unmissable and that we're obsessed to us.

0:16.5

And I'm coming to you today again from Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival is happening.

0:22.9

And I am being joined today by one of my favorite colleagues, the Daily Beast's chief critic,

0:29.2

and I must say award-winning critic. He is been named the best film critic of the year by the LA Press

0:36.6

Club. And we're going to dive through everything we saw at Sundance.

0:40.7

It's been an exhausting few days, a very fun few days.

0:43.5

We've seen lots of celebs, lots of good movies, lots of not-so-good movies.

0:49.6

And then we're going to have a really fun interview that Matt Wilson conducted with the stand-up comedian and actress Maria Bamford, who has a new,

0:59.7

very buzzy documentary here at Sundance.

1:02.1

It's called Paralyzed by Hope, the Maria Bamford story.

1:06.1

It's produced by Jed Apatow.

1:08.1

I've loved Maria for years.

1:09.5

I remember watching her on Last Comic Standing, my God, decades ago. And it's been so much fun to watch her become this very popular, but also very interesting, unique, introspective, very candid comedian. So Matt, we'll get into all that with her. But right now, I'm going to talk to my

1:28.4

roomy because Nick and I have been sharing a condo for the last few days. Hi, Nick. Hey, how are you,

1:34.2

Kevin? I haven't seen you in a few minutes here in our condo. We've been really rooming together

1:40.5

for this final sundance here at Park City.

1:47.8

I know for purposes of recording and sound and all of that,

1:48.6

we're in different rooms,

1:51.2

but we have been living together here.

1:53.4

And I think it's been a pretty good situation.

1:57.6

We haven't had any issues with people not putting their dishes away or, you know, coming in late and loud.

2:00.6

I think the only thing

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