Is A24’s 'The Drama' Worth This Much Discourse?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
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🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It's that time y'all! The Polyester Podcast is wading into the discourse deep end about another widely critiqued movie but this time, there's a twist: We're actually enjoyed the film!
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina dig into the subtext of Kristoffer Borgli's new dark comedy The Drama. Is the Zendaya and Robert Pattinson fronted flick a failure at analysing such a sensitive subject matter? Does the film fail to take into consideration its casting? And will the culture ever move past needing movies to make their politics unequivocally clear?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. And this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. |
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| 0:38.4 | reviews i only no right we have spotify though spotify the commenters are getting more than |
| 0:44.5 | more spotify girls yeah i love them bobs slash loki says i've been listening to this podcast for a while |
| 0:50.1 | and it's such highlight of my week you guys are the best love heart thank you thank. And then Alice says, miss my bus stop because got too engrossed in this. Five stars. Thank you. Thank you. What we talking about today only? Bon, bum, boom. It's a very dramatic sound. For a dramatic film. Well, was it dramatic? Yeah. Yeah, I was tense. |
| 1:12.4 | You said you were really tense. |
| 1:15.3 | Yeah, I know my art always clenched for the last like hour. |
| 1:16.1 | That's crazy. |
| 1:16.4 | Why? |
| 1:17.4 | What do you think was going to happen? |
| 1:18.5 | Sorry. |
| 1:20.2 | Before we start. |
| 1:25.0 | Today, as you have probably seen from the title of this episode, we're talking about the drama. |
| 1:26.1 | The drama starring Zendaya and robert patinson uh yep and |
| 1:30.9 | alana hame heme how do you say it hi me i think and directed by christoph bogley well done well i wasn't even |
| 1:40.3 | looking at written down you're a fan i am a fan well want to watch Dream Scenario and then it'll be a fan. |
| 1:45.9 | So the drama has been billed as a rom-com, a dark rom-com. Cheeky rom-com. No, not cheeky. People have been billed as like a dark rom-com. Like a tense rom-com. I don't know. I think you're just adding words now. I'm not going to lie. |
| 1:58.7 | I don't think it's... |
| 2:00.0 | Well... |
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