I Saw The TV Glow

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Today's episode is on Jane Schoenbrun's breakout 2024 horror film - I Saw The TV Glow. Join us for a discussion that is alternately haunting and deeply silly, featuring playground parachutes, TV-based queer awakenings and Alice's love of soup. Check out our website, where you can find our sources, as well as everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky. [Image: A cropped poster for the movie I Saw The TV Glow, featuring our protagonist Owen sitting down, facing away from the camera staring into the pink static glow of an old TV set]

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Queer as Fiction, where we discuss queer historical media.
0:03.9	I'm Jasmine.
0:04.8	I'm Alice.
0:05.6	And I'm Eli.
0:06.6	And today we're discussing Jane Schoenbun's 24 horror film, I Saw the TV Glow.
0:20.0	Before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the Bunawang Brundwang people of the Kulin Nation
0:24.3	as the traditional owners of the land upon which we record this podcast and pay respect to their elders past and present.
0:30.2	We recognize them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:34.9	We also had some content warnings for this episode.
0:36.8	This episode
0:37.6	features mentions of self-harm and suicidal ideation, homophobia and transphobia, hallucinations
0:43.6	and related symptoms of mental illness, and parental abuse, swearing, in quotes, and drug
0:48.6	use. If any of that sounds like something you don't want to listen to, please feel free to
0:52.0	check out some of other episodes. So, as you might have gathered from those content warnings, I Saw the TV Glow is a deeply
0:58.6	personal confronting film, and much of its content is drawn from writer and director
1:03.2	Schoenbrun's personal experiences growing up as a 90s kid in suburban New York, watching
1:07.7	Buffy, listening to Connor Oberst, Elliot Smith, and John Darniel, being obsessed with Halloween and becoming increasingly estranged from their family.
1:15.3	So is this set in suburban New York?
1:18.0	Yes, I believe so.
1:18.9	There you go.
1:19.5	I didn't know that.
1:20.1	It's set in suburban.
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