I, Tonya (2017)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
"There's no such thing as truth. It's bullsh*t. Everyone has their own truth, and life just does whatever the f*ck it want."
To discuss the story of Tonya Harding is to discuss the ‘90s news cycle, “white trash America,” misogyny, and the vilification of girls living in poverty. This week The Wives Colangelo are talking about the Oscar-winning biopic, I, TONYA. This is a pretty charged conversation about the perceptions and assumptions society projects onto someone when the media needs a villain, and what happens when a person's reputation outlasts their humanity.
Be advised, this episode includes discussions of abuse and domestic violence.
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Articles Referenced
Making an Ice Queen (by Sarah Marshall!): https://thebaffler.com/latest/i-tonya-marshall
In Defense of Tonya Harding: https://www.damemagazine.com/2018/01/19/i-know-what-its-like-to-be-tonya-harding/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations, and welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.0 | 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. |
| 0:14.6 | 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? |
| 0:23.2 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.4 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:25.8 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.5 | I don't want to be your merch girl. |
| 0:31.8 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.3 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard |
| 0:38.5 | for the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.6 | but I |
| 0:43.5 | realize |
| 0:46.0 | that I |
| 0:50.3 | probably won't |
| 0:52.9 | be so lucky. |
| 1:00.5 | It's time to go for the gold prom party. |
| 1:07.2 | It is, isn't it? |
| 1:08.3 | For a half second, I thought about doing a Nancy Kerrigan Y, but it is way too late for the time that we're recording for me to bust that out. |
| 1:17.3 | Everybody had a Y. |
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