The Undying Appeal of Very Sexy Trash
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, erotic thrillers are making a comeback and The Waves is ready to dig into it. Freelance podcaster and writer, Nichole Perkins is joined by Slate features editor Jeffrey Bloomer to talk about why they love these movies, while also acknowledging the many flaws they contain. Then, Nichole and Jeffrey talk about what they want to see change and evolve as we enter into a new era of erotic thrillers.
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| 0:00.0 | You're Welcome to the waves, |
| 0:16.7 | the waves, the podcast about gender feminism and today the movies. |
| 0:20.4 | Every episode you get a new pair of feminists |
| 0:22.4 | to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds. |
| 0:24.5 | And today you've got me, Jeffrey Blumer, I'm Slates Futures Director. |
| 0:28.0 | And me, Nicole Perkins, just a writer and general podcast host just out there in the world. Just a writer and general podcast host, just out there in the world. |
| 0:33.7 | Just a writer and podcast host, one of my favorites. |
| 0:36.5 | We are gathered here today to discuss a topic near and dear to my heart, |
| 0:42.3 | and I gather to my heart, |
| 0:42.5 | and I gather to yours too, Nicole, |
| 0:44.1 | the erotic thriller. |
| 0:45.8 | It's a man and a woman, usually it is a man and a woman, |
| 0:48.1 | they have very hot sex, borderline dangerous sex, |
| 0:51.3 | usually, probably a lot of it and then you know somebody has to die |
| 0:56.0 | maybe the woman loses it maybe the scorned husband finds out it goes after the new guy |
| 1:01.2 | these movies are called things like |
| 1:02.7 | body of evidence and basic instinct and never talk to strangers. |
| 1:06.8 | They vary wildly in quality. |
| 1:09.2 | And that last one, Breckup D. Murnay |
| 1:11.5 | eats Antonio Bader's butt very like, against a cage very dramatically. |
| 1:15.8 | It is one of the great bad movies of the 90s. |
| 1:18.3 | I remember watching it at that time when I was a teenager and being like, I didn't even know that |
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