Looking, American Sniper and #Cism

Pop Rocket

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Media, Comedy, Maxfun, Maximumfun, Music, Sociology, Journalism, Comment, Society & Culture, Television, Journalist, Discussion, Tv

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

HBO’s Looking has been billed as the gay, male, Sex and the City or Girls. We ask why TV can’t do gay right. Plus MaxFun boss Jesse Thorn drops in for his new signature segment. With Wynter Mitchell, Oliver Wang, Margaret Wappler and host Guy Branum. Produced by Colin Anderson for MaximumFun.org

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Guy Branham, and welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over the pop culture
0:08.8	we love to love.
0:10.0	With me to talk TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining are digital strategist Winter
0:14.2	Mitchell.
0:15.2	Hi, hi everybody.
0:16.2	Hey.
0:17.2	A journalist Margaret Waupler.
0:19.2	Hello.
0:20.2	And academic and DJ Oliver Wang. Hello, hello.
0:23.2	To help give you a sense of the real essence of our panel,
0:26.2	I'm going to go around the studio and have each of you tell me,
0:28.9	what was your favorite film when you were 14 years old?
0:31.9	Wobbler.
0:33.0	Say anything.
0:34.0	It was the height of my John Kuzak crush
0:38.0	and this just nailed it in hard.
0:40.0	Also, I'm from Chicago.
0:42.0	This was a big Chicago movie because everyone knew who John Kuzak was and Jeremy Piven and that whole scene, so it was very rewarding.
0:50.0	Winner Mitchell.
0:51.0	Well, I have to just dedicate this to Jim Carrey because Jim Carrey had the mask, Ace Ventura, and
0:56.6	dumb and dumber.
0:57.9	In 1994, I feel like I was watching a Jim Carrey movie a week with my lunch money.
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