The Secret Life of Bees with Jourdain Searles

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Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

A coming-of age story. Racism in America. Complex connections to motherhood. The Secret Life of Bees adaptation had a lot of themes to tackle. This week we look back to 2008 and compare the strengths and weaknesses of Prince-Bythewood’s biggest commercial success. Critic, comedian and co-host (Bad Romance Podcast) Jourdain Searles returns to talk meeting celebrities at the worst moments, Hollywood’s attempts to depict the south, and underrated Queen Latifah performances.

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0:00.0	My whole life has been nothing but a hole where my podcast should have been.
0:25.5	You'd always left me aching but I never thought about what it did to you.
0:30.5	I don't have a Dakota.
0:33.4	No, I'd be impressive if you did.
0:35.4	Yeah.
0:36.4	Is this the like, this is sort of the end of the run of child Dakota, right?
0:42.5	This is unfortunately all I want.
0:44.3	I always thinking about for most of the, I was like, man, the Dakota star arc is weird.
0:49.7	Yes.
0:50.7	The end of young Dakota, I guess, because next year is new moon.
0:58.0	And then the year after that is the runaways.
0:59.7	And I feel like that's when it's like she's a grown up star.
1:03.2	Right, but she becomes supporting or if she's lead, it's in much smaller films.
1:08.0	But this is the end of this insane run in which like not even like McColle Cawkin, but
1:15.2	where a small girl became like a prestige high brown movie star.
1:22.3	It's a weird, it's a weird thing.
1:24.8	There are a lot of clear arcs to talk about here.
1:29.3	Yes, there are.
1:30.3	But what were you going to say?
1:31.5	It's also, it's also just funny that like she was like, you know, one of the big kid
1:36.4	actresses when, you know, in the 2000s and she's still around, but her sister is the
1:41.9	one who got famous in a way.
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