Muriel's Wedding with Laura Lippman
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
An effervescent dark comedy that addresses the crushing nature of patriarchy while also paying tribute to ABBA on a number of levels? We gushed about Muriel's Wedding with the endlessly marvelous Laura Lippman.
You can find Laura's books here, and you can find Laura on Twitter here!
Why Are Dads is a show in which hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed attempt to understand what the hell it means to be the grown children of dads and other dad-like figures. And, as they do with all difficult subject matter, they do so by looking through a pop culture lens.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, Alex Steed. |
| 0:06.2 | Sarah, I have a question for you that you don't know I'm about to ask you. |
| 0:10.2 | And it relates to things that happen in the movie that we're going to watch today, which is called Muriel's Wedding. |
| 0:19.3 | Okay. |
| 0:20.3 | A dad yesterday was reported to die |
| 0:24.9 | by way of a, I don't know, like a homemade explosive device, I believe, is part of a gender |
| 0:30.6 | reveal. An IED. An IED. A gender reveal IED. And it's tempting to laugh at this because, not because of the human, of the human misery |
| 0:41.2 | piece of it, not at all. |
| 0:42.3 | And it's sad that this happened. |
| 0:44.1 | It's sad the ways that patriarchy do the things that they do, both to the kids of the |
| 0:49.3 | parents who have gender reveal parties, most importantly, but then also to the parents. |
| 0:54.1 | But I think it's, but then also to the parents. |
| 0:59.7 | But I think it's it's tempting to laugh at it for specific reasons being that like people who feel like they're on the receiving end of the shittiness of the deadness that you would |
| 1:03.8 | think of the person who might have a gender reveal party. |
| 1:06.3 | There's a cosmic joke there. |
| 1:08.6 | I bring this up because this is the first movie as we talk about in this |
| 1:12.1 | movie where there is a direct death related to just a dad being a dad. Yeah, you're right. |
| 1:18.8 | And I'm curious about what your take is about why this is the thing that happens. Why are people |
| 1:25.9 | dying and setting woods on fire as a result of having |
| 1:30.4 | these kinds of parties? Oh, God. I really don't know. I find it so weird because I mean, |
| 1:36.6 | this is a new thing, right? Because we were born in the 80s. And to my, I'm sure that there were |
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