Prosthesis Statement Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Stephen Metcalf discuss the Oscar-nominated film Vice, the Netflix streamer Sexual Education, and what to make of Netflix's "ratings" numbers with Slate TV critic and the host of Decoder Ring, Willa Paskin. This episode is brought to you by Capterra. Try it today, for free, at Capterra.com/CULTURE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
0:08.0	Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra ink, or building a playlist that will even get your
0:14.8	none up on the table. Or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max.
0:20.1	Christmas.
0:23.0	Better with Pepsi Max.
0:27.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen MacKaff and this is the Sla Culture Gap Fest Prosthesis Statement Edition.
0:44.8	It's Wednesday, January 30th, 2019.
0:47.6	On today's show, Vice is the Dick Cheney biopic from writer, director Adam McKay. The man behind the big short, it's also part of
0:54.8	our pre- Oscar mop-up series. And then Netflix's teen comedy, Sex Education tells the story of the sex therapist, mom and her nerdy pupescent son.
1:05.2	And finally, in the age of streaming, some hits are hidden hits.
1:09.2	They achieve massive download numbers.
1:11.8	We discuss whether that's meaningful at all with
1:14.8	slate's own TV critic willopaskin joining me today is Julia Turner who is of
1:19.3	course deputy editor the LA Times.
1:23.0	Deputy Managing Editor, Steve.
1:25.0	Deputy Managing Editor.
1:26.0	Oh my God.
1:28.0	He scaled that slope and then he slid back down again.
1:31.0	Otherwise known around the office as Vice.
1:35.4	Fair enough.
1:36.4	Okay.
1:37.4	And of course, Slates film critic Dana.
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