This is pretty much pop, a culture podcast, based on true events, but with artistic license in depicting exactly how cool we are.

Today we're discussing TV and film dramatizations of ordinary people and newsworthy situations

docudrama spurred by the recent film May December about Mary Kay Littorno.

I'm Mark Linson Meyer and if my references don't check out it's just because my life was sabotaged by my bitter ex-girlfriend.

I'm Al Baker trying to think of a way that I too can have myself played by two incredibly good actors in the same movie.

I'm Sarah Lynn Bruck and if I'm feeling queasy I know I've either been overindulging in too much junk food or by watching

docking dramas.

And my name is Lauren Zware and I should have been nominated for an Oscar, but I got Jend.

Is made December for an Oscar?

Nobody.

Charles Melton should have been nominated, but of course he was not yet.

Nobody got nominated from this film.

So yes, that was the film that I think Sarah you suggested we do this.

I was trying to figure out what else is in

this category there are a lot of bio-picks and things out there I didn't really want to be

doing the Leonard Bernstein film or whatever for this because that seems like a

fundamentally different thing

I also didn't want to go full on true crime because that's its own thing but it's hard

most of these have something to do with crime so I watch some of the shrink

next door I watched some of the Shrink Next Door, I watched Reality, about Reality Winner,

getting arrested by the FBI. I had watched Inventing Anna last year, this fraud one,

and I just, thanks to some postponement, watch the entire first season of Dirty John

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