A warning this episode contains discussion of sex.

In the wild, wonderful, and really no kidding, wild, new film, Poor Things, Emma Stone plays a woman brought back to life

from at the very least the brink of death. She's a clean slate, unconcerned with the

bonds a repressive society tries to put on her.

The film reunite Stone with the creative team behind the Oscar-winning film The Favorite

and it shares that film's darkly comedic sensibility but it is even weirder. I'm Glenn Weldon.

And I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about poor things on pop culture happy hour

from NPR. Joining me in Glenn today is Vulture TV critic Roxana

Welcome back Roxana.

Hello.

And also with us is writer and critic Walter Chow.

Welcome back Walter.

Hey, thanks for having me.

In poor things, Emma Stone plays Bella.

She's a young woman in Victorian London

whose nearly lifeless body is found

and experimented upon by the brilliant but twisted surgeon Godwin Baxter.

He's played by Willem Defoe under a lot of prosthetics.

Bella has no memory of her previous life and we watch her develop her new one under Dr Baxter's care.

She's naive, inquisitive, and self-determined.

Over the course of the film, many people, mostly men,

attempt to control her and force her to conform to rigid societal standards.

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