Muriel's Wedding with Laura Lippman

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.7K 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 (http://www.lauralippman.net/) here, and you can find Laura on Twitter here (https://twitter.com/LauraMLippman)! Why Are Dads (https://www.podpage.com/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. You can find us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/whyaredads), Instagram (https://instagram.com/whyaredads) and Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/whyaredads). You can find producer and music director Carolyn Kendrick's music here. (fanlink.to/ctuc) She's also on Twitter (https://twitter.com/carekendrick). Fresh Lesh (https://www.freshlesh.com/) produces the beats for our episodes.

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0:00.0	Hello, Sarah Marshall.
0:05.0	Hello, Alex Steve.
0:06.3	Sarah, I have a question for you that you don't know I'm about to ask you.
0:10.0	And it relates to things that happen in the movie that we're going to watch today,
0:17.5	which is called Miriel's Wedding.
0:19.0	Okay.
0:20.0	A dad yesterday was reported to die by way of a, I don't know, like a homemade explosive
0:29.0	device, I believe, is part of a gender reveal an ID, an ID, a gender reveal,
0:34.7	IED, and it's tempting to laugh at this because not because of the human of the human misery
0:41.3	piece of it, not at all.
0:42.3	And it's sad that this happened.
0:44.0	It's sad the ways that patriarchy do the things that they do both to the kids of the parents
0:49.8	who have gender reveal parties, most importantly, but then also to the parents, but I think it's,
0:55.7	it's tempting to laugh at it for specific reasons being that, like, people who feel like
1:00.5	they're on the receiving end of the shittiness of the dadness that you would think of the
1:04.2	person who might have a gender reveal party.
1:06.6	There's a cosmic joke there.
1:08.6	I bring this up because this is the first movie as we talk about on this movie where there
1:13.1	is a direct death related to just a dad being a dad.
1:18.0	Yeah, you're right.
1:19.0	And I'm curious about what your take is about why this is the thing that happens.
1:24.9	Why are people dying and setting woods on fire as a result of having these kinds of
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