Let’s Get Critical with Angelica Jade Bastien

For Colored Nerds

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt bad for critiquing a Black film for fear of "no more being made"? Feeling so-so about this season of ATLANTA? Are you looking for someone, somewhere who can just say what's been sitting on your chest for so long? Look no further. Angelica Jade Bastien, Vulture film & TV critic, joins the show to give her unfiltered, deeply researched, and incisive commentary that we've grown to love in her work. She's written about all your favorite films and TV shows from I May Destroy You to Candyman and she doesn't hold back. Angelica and Eric get into the value of black criticism, reviewing Candyman, and season 3 of Atlanta. You really don't wanna miss this.

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0:00.0	These niggas are lying to you guys.
0:03.7	They are lying.
0:04.9	They're not good at their jobs.
0:07.1	They're not good at their jobs.
0:08.7	They're not good at their jobs.
0:10.8	And they're reaffirming white ideas about blackness and trying to tell us as a revolution.
0:15.2	Kiss my black ass.
0:16.4	That's what I would say to all of them.
0:17.7	You can come at me.
0:18.8	Like, really, have fun with that. I can actually
0:22.1	fight unlike a lot of other people I know. Hi, I'm Eric, and this is for colored nerds. The
0:30.1	weekly show where we peel back the layers of black culture we rarely discuss in mixed company.
0:35.8	This week, I got to chat with vulture Film and TV critic Angelica Jade Bastion.
0:41.0	Angelica's written some of the most researched, critical, fun, and some would say divisive reviews
0:45.9	of the films featuring black characters and stories that we have all been obsessing over.
0:51.1	We invited her to the studio to talk about the challenges of critiquing black
0:54.7	content on the internet. What's missing from the movies we love? And we take a wonderfully
0:59.7	spicy detour into the latest season of the FX hit show Atlanta. You don't want to miss
1:05.6	that and you don't want to miss this interview. We let it rip. More with myself and Angelica
1:10.2	after this break.
1:19.1	Chief antagonist to MCU Twitter.
1:21.4	Oh, my God.
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