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Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood with Danny Lavery.

I'm your host, Danny Lavery.

With me in the studio this week is Ingu Kang, a TV critic for The Washington Post,

and host of the All About Almodovar podcast.

Ingu, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

I only have medium moods, but thank you for inviting me on to this thing.

I feel like that's denoted by Big Mood, Little Mood.

It creates room for something in the middle, I think.

Yes, that's where I am.

I mean, I admire that deeply.

I hope to get there myself.

I'm also really excited to have you here, not least because when I was thinking about your podcast, I thought it's weird that I've never seen Almodovar movies.

And I went and I looked up his filmography and I saw a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

And for a second, I had that confused with, what's that John Cassavetti's movie?

Like, Woman on the Edge or something?

Yes.

The one with like, Gina Rowlands and everything.

And I was like, wow, I always thought that was John Cassavettys.

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