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Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's been a minute from NPR. A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. Suburban decay,

decay, delightfully creepy kids shows

and brand new metaphors for the trans experience.

There's a new movie out that has a lot to say about all of these things.

What if I really was someone else?

Very far away on the other side of a television screen.

I saw the TV glow of a television screen.

I saw the TV glow is a new film from Indie Powerhouse A24. And lucky for us, we've got the writer and director behind the film,

Jane Schoenbrun.

I think about my own youth in the suburbs, both very like nostalgic and also kind of haunted.

I saw the TV glow is a coming ofof-age horror film following two teens, Owen and Maddie. They're

both outcasts in their 1990 suburban town and their lifeline is a TV show called

The Pink O'Pake. is a

late night sci-fi show called The Pink O'Pake is a late night

sci-fi show about two teen girls with a psychic connection

who fight off the monster of the week.

Think, are you afraid of the dark, cross with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and goosebumps?

It's creepy, kind of mystical, and just a little too scary, which is exactly why they love it.

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