Rated or Dated: Mulholland Drive (2001)

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Take off all your clothes and climb into bed with your female pal, as David Lynch’s twisty neo-noir nightmare-dream that tickles the seedy underbelly of Hollywood gets Rated or Dated. Join Mick, Hannah and Jen, as they ask questions, such as ‘what the fuck is happening?’, ‘who cares?’ and ‘WHY?’ about a film some regard as one of the greatest movies of the 21st century. Is that a dolphin? What’s in this Twinkie? WHO CARES. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Rated or Dated.
0:11.0	I'm currently going by Hannah Dunleavy.
0:14.3	Here is a woman known as Jen Offord.
0:18.3	Hello.
0:19.3	And finally, Mickey Noonan, who picked this week's film, Mickey.
0:24.1	Hello.
0:24.8	I was having a shower.
0:26.0	Just having a shower.
0:27.1	So, Mickey, what?
0:30.3	No, that's it.
0:31.2	End of question.
0:31.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:33.2	And it's fair, because this week we watched, what the fuck did we watch?
0:37.5	Yep. That is us sounding the David Lynch sirens.
0:41.1	So get your baffled faces ready as we delve into the twisty, neo-noyar, nightmare dream,
0:46.9	Mobius strip that is 2001's Mulholland Drive.
0:51.1	Some regard it as the late director's best, and indeed one of the greatest films of all time.
0:57.6	And some regard it as an implausibly elaborate ruse for boobs smashing against other boobs.
1:04.1	It's emerging of dreams and reality. It's Bobby Ewing in the shower. It's... I've never even been too mad.
1:12.1	It's a game of three harps.
1:14.2	It's a thinker.
1:15.9	At the risk of revealing myself an unsophisticate...
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