Twilight

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Paul and Amy sink their teeth into Twilight, unpacking how a once-mocked teen romance became a box-office juggernaut and cultural lightning rod. They trace the adaptation saga from Paramount’s infamous “jet ski” rewrite to Catherine Hardwicke’s faithful reset at Summit, debate vampire lore and gendered critiques of romance, and decide whether Team Edward vs. Team Jacob misses the point entirely. Go to https://surfshark.com/unspooled or use code UNSPOOLED at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The year is 2008.
0:04.3	You better hold on tight, spider monkey.
0:07.9	The movie. Twilight.
0:14.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Unspooled.
0:26.3	Yes, welcome to Unspooled, a podcast about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, mustsies, and in case you missed them.
0:34.8	We have covered the AFI top 100, and now we are checking off movies from three
0:38.9	major lists. The letterbox top 250 films with the most fans, the IMDB top 250, and the New York
0:45.6	Times 1,000 essential films. And Amy, we will also be chasing our own curiosity as today
0:52.7	we picked a movie that you really, really wanted to do. I've been
0:58.2	putting it off. I've been pushing it off to the side, but you came in and said, we have to do
1:04.5	Twilight. So. I did it. I have no regrets, man. No regrets. We've been on this weird streak of romances,
1:12.4	inadvertently, accidentally on purpose ever since we did before sunrise and then reality bites.
1:17.6	I got Wuthering Heights on my mind. Let's do it. Let's do some dark, tormented role and romance.
1:22.3	All right. Well, I am Paul Shear. I'm an actor, writer, and director, and I am, I would say, a twilight aficionado as I have covered
1:30.8	most of the Twilight films on my podcast. How did this get made? This is going to be decidedly
1:36.9	different take. I'm going to try to look at this with some more open, honest eyes, but that's my
1:43.1	challenge to myself today.
1:44.8	Fair enough.
1:45.9	I'm Amy Nicholson.
1:46.8	I'm the film critic for the Los Angeles Times.
1:49.0	I have been to Forks, Washington, actually.
1:52.0	I went there on assignment.
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