The Big Sick

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

**This episode contains spoilers**

This week Guy, Margaret, and Wynter talk about The Big Sick, the new romantic comedy from Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani which tells the story of how they met and fell in love. Because because the film is based in tragedy, with Emily falling into a coma in the middle of the film, some people are hesitant to call it a romantic comedy. But not our panel! They discuss how the usual tropes of a romantic comedy get flipped around, and how those changes allow for a more candid and interesting story. They also discuss why brown men falling for white women on screen is problematic, but maybe not in the case of The Big Sick. Guy talks about why he's all about this season of Big Brother, and Wynter tells us why we should forget about all of the other iterations of Peter Parker and go see the Tom Holland led Spider-Man: Homecoming. Plus, the "Song of the Summer" thread is live in the Facebook group and the panelists aren't too happy with the nominations.

With Guy Branum, Wynter Mitchell, and Margaret Wappler

Jams:

Guy Branum - Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber - Despacito
Margaret Wappler - Toro Y Moi - Girl Like You
Wynter Mitchell - Rockell - In A Dream

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0:00.0	Oh, hey there I'm Guy Branham and welcome to Pop Rock at a weekly show picking over all the pop culture we love to love.
0:13.0	We've made us our TV, film, music, and anything else entertaining our digital
0:16.2	strategist Winter.
0:17.2	Hello, Hello, Winter.
0:19.6	And journalist and novelist Margaret Wopler.
0:21.8	Hi there, Guy. Uh, hello Margaret. And of course. journalist and
0:23.3	novellous Margaret Wapplire.
0:21.8	Hi there Guy.
0:23.2	uh... hello Margaret and of course are uh... unnamed uh... future human being that is
0:29.0	lodged somewhere in Margaret.
0:31.0	Yes, he's 36 weeks old as of tomorrow. It's very exciting. On the
0:37.0	inside 36 weeks old. He'll probably have less to save them the two of you this
0:40.4	episode but we'll see. Coming up on this week's show we're going to be talking
0:44.7	about the big sick and just so we're clear we are going to be spoiling things
0:48.8	because we're going to talk about this movie and what happens in this movie and it's a
0:52.0	romantic comedy so we cannot behave as
0:54.1	though we're not going to talk about whether these people end up together and that
0:58.3	kind of thing. Plus we'll each be sharing our latest chance but first let's find
1:01.6	out what our entertainment news or events have caught our attention this week.
1:04.3	Margaret Wampler, what are you all about this week?
1:06.3	I'm all about glow, the show. I could have said the app, which is a
1:11.8	pregnancy app, but I'll spare you guys that okay yeah it's also for like tracking your period
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