Misery (1990)
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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We thought you were good, but you're not good. You're just another lying ol' dirty birdy. Let's talk Misery, the classic 1990 Rob Reiner film and the classic 1987 Stephen King novel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies. |
| 0:08.7 | I am one of your co-host, Alex Steed. I will be joined by my illustrious co-host Sarah Marshall in a couple of |
| 0:14.2 | minutes. Today we're covering Misery, Page to Scream, the book in the movie, and whether or not |
| 0:19.1 | you've read it, whether or not you have watched it, |
| 0:21.8 | whether or not you are a horror fan. I think that there's something for everyone in this conversation. |
| 0:26.6 | We cover these movies. We cover movies generally to talk through the more universal elements |
| 0:31.4 | of the genre and what's on screen or what's on the page. And so you don't personally have to |
| 0:37.0 | experience the horror if you don't want to. I love it when we cover horror. And folks say, like, that's not my bag, but I listened and I got a lot out of it. That means a lot to us. So, yeah, just a little heads up. And hey, just a quick content warning. This is horror. This is Stephen King. We don't go into very deep detail, but there are certainly |
| 0:56.1 | mentions of violence, of gore. We talk about mental health issues. We talk about mine and other |
| 1:01.8 | folks. We talk about addiction, talk about captivity, and we also talk about the problematic language |
| 1:07.5 | that is used in King's writing, particularly with regard to race, rape, |
| 1:12.2 | and sexual assault. Most of these sensitive topics happen in the last 20 to 30 minutes of the |
| 1:16.9 | episode. If listening or thinking about these things isn't in the cards for you today, |
| 1:21.2 | we just want you to know ahead of time. There are other episodes that don't contain these |
| 1:25.0 | types of content warnings. Actually, I'd say the vast majority of |
| 1:28.0 | our episodes. So go back and check those out instead. Finally, we talk about many of the valid |
| 1:33.4 | critiques and criticisms of King and how they inform our relationship with his texts as fans. |
| 1:40.5 | We recognize both here in this conversation that being able to even just engage with |
| 1:45.0 | his writing comes from a place of privilege. |
| 1:46.5 | And so we try to have a nuanced conversation about how to engage when we have emotional |
| 1:53.3 | connections with works and writers that have these problematic elements. |
| 1:58.1 | And in this episode, I think we're actively working through a |
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