Kill your daddies? TV's obsession with patricide

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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From HBO's Industry to FX's The Bear, 2024 was full of TV characters working out their "daddy issues" the tough way...by committing patricide. This week Brittany is joined by Vulture's TV critic Roxana Hadadi and The New Yorker's Inkoo Kang to compare and contrast a new generation of daddy killers. Why do we enjoy seeing screen dads offed? And what does that say about our own anxieties about patriarchy?

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1:10.5	So excited to have y'all on TV.
1:11.9	This is like a dream TV conversation.
1:14.2	It really and truly is.
1:16.0	So I'm super hype.
1:17.0	Woo-woo.
1:20.9	I have assembled the dream team, y'all.
1:23.4	I've got Roxanna Hadati.
1:25.3	She's a TV critic for Vulture Magazine and the New Yorkers Ingu Kang.
1:29.5	And we're here to talk about daddy issues.
1:32.9	This is the Olympics of Patricide.
1:36.3	You thought Oedipus, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:40.2	2024 TV is going to do you one better.
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