Millennials in Hollywood are making parents apologize on-screen

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this episode from June 2022, guest host B.A. Parker and Vox entertainment critic Emily St. James dive into a trend that was all over Hollywood: parents apologizing on-screen. From miniseries like 'Ms. Marvel' to the indie darling 'Everything Everywhere All At Once,' St. James calls the subgenre the 'millennial parent apology fantasy.' They get into how stories about parents and children confronting gaps in culture, generation and identity could pave the way for new perspectives about trauma and family.

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0:00.0	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:03.8	I'm Brittany Loose.
0:05.0	The beginning of January often means two things.
0:10.5	Number one, it's a new year and we've got so much to look forward to.
0:15.4	And number two, a lot of us just spent days, maybe even weeks, cooped up with our families,
0:23.3	which can be a beautiful thing, but even the most harmonious of families, bump heads
0:28.3	from time to time.
0:30.0	So today, I want to revisit a conversation from last summer about families, specifically
0:36.8	the relationship between millennial children like me and their parents.
0:42.2	One of it's been a minute's amazing guest hosts, BA Parker, talked to Vox Culture Reporter
0:47.4	Emily St. James about a Hollywood trend that showed parents apologizing to their kids
0:53.4	on screen.
0:54.8	They get into generation gaps in culture and identity, bad parenting, and how showing
1:00.2	all of that makes space for new perspectives about trauma and family.
1:05.2	Let's get to it.
1:06.5	Here's Parker.
1:07.5	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
1:16.5	I'm BA Parker.
1:18.5	These past few months, I feel like I've been watching these really involved stories about
1:22.6	families of color, finding ways to heal the generational wounds, or to see their ancestors
1:27.8	as people, from the animated films in Conto and Turning Red to the recent miniseries Miss
1:35.0	Marvel.
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