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I'm Greta Johnson, and today we are recapping the movie Promising Young Woman. It is up for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director,

and Best Actress. Now, if you are at all familiar with this movie, you already know it deals

with some tough topics, including suicide and sexual violence.

So if that's something you are not up for at the moment, that is entirely reasonable.

Feel free to press pause and maybe come back another time. Also, Peter and Trisha are sitting

this one out, but I'm really excited to tell you about the people who are going to help me

recap this movie. First up, we have

Makaya Johnson, who wrote the sci-fi book, The Space Between Worlds. Makaya, hello. Hello, thank you for

having me. I'm so stoked to talk about this movie. Oh my gosh, there is so much to talk about. We also have

with us the author of Her Body and Other Parties and in the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado. Carmen, welcome to Nuredette. Hello, thank you for

having me. So, Carmen, you also wrote about promising young woman for the New Yorker. So we are for

sure going to discuss a lot of the things that you have all written about. Before we get started,

since this is a recap, I just want to be very clear. Here is your spoiler warning.

Either you hear it because you already saw the movie and you also can't stop thinking about it or you haven't seen it, but you're okay with spoilers.

In either case, we are going to spoil this film.

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