M3GAN, murder, and mass queer appeal

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

At first blush, M3GAN seems like your standard murder doll horror film. Uncanny appearance, eerily close relationship with a young child, and of course, murder. But it's become way more than that. She's got a viral dance, powerful side eye, wig fittings, and songs - all of this led M3GAN to become a camp queer icon overnight. Host Brittany Luse and writer Alex Abad-Santos talk M3GAN's queer appeal, our skepticism of Silicon Valley life hacks and how the movie inverts some classic horror tropes.
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0:00.0	Okay, Alexis.
0:05.0	We just got out of Megan.
0:07.0	What do you think?
0:09.0	10 out of 10.
0:10.0	She accomplished a lot.
0:11.0	Megan didn't let anything stand in her way.
0:13.0	I'll save that much.
0:18.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:22.0	I'm Brittany Loose, and me and my producer, Alexis Williams,
0:25.0	used our lunch break last week to go see the movie
0:28.0	Everyone is talking about.
0:30.0	Megan.
0:31.0	There was camp, there was horror, there was comedy, there was family.
0:35.0	There are a few scenes where literally Brittany and I like jumped up at it.
0:39.0	Like what?
0:40.0	You should probably run.
0:48.0	So we know Megan is scary, but what's the movie actually about?
0:52.0	The film centers on a toy creator named Gemma,
0:55.0	who becomes a guardian to her recently orphan niece.
0:58.0	To make her adjustment to parenting easier, and to give her niece a new friend,
1:02.0	Gemma invents Megan, an AI robot toy in the form of a life-sized doll.
1:08.0	And as you might imagine, murder and soothe.
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