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On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the gabbers discuss the Judd Apatow comedy Trainwreck, written by and starring Amy Schumer. Is Amy Schumer just another dude in a Judd Apatow movie? Next up, Mr. Robot is a cyberpunk thriller on USA. The series is visually sophisticated, but is it too politically simplistic? Finally, two Gawker editors have quit after the site’s management took down a controversial post. The critics discuss journalistic ethics and Gawker’s place in modern media.
Links to some of the things we discussed this week follow:
- Trainwreck
- War Games
- Trainwreck Spoiler Special
- WTF With Marc Maron
- Just Wright
- Amy Schumer on The Howard Stern Show
- Mr. Robot
- Sneakers
- Heathers
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- The Sixth Sense
- Gawker’s controversial, now-removed post
- Glenn Greenwald’s tweet condemning Gawker’s post
- Culture Gabfest: “I Did It for the Lulz” Edition with Adrian Chen
- Dana Stevens’ Top 10 Movies of 2014 for Slate, featuring We Are the Best
- Culture Gabfest: “Spy. UnReal. Wow.” Edition
- Stephanie Zacharek’s “Ballad of John Wick” in Slate
- Culture Gabfest “Tinker Tailor Soldier Fry” Edition
- A 2013 Lexicon Valley podcast about “creaky voice”
- Amanda Hess’ defense of vocal fry in Slate
- Ann Friedman tackles criticism of women’s voices in New York magazine
- Ira Glass’s investigation of vocal fry on This American Life
- Seth Stevenson wonders where the “voice of God” has gone in Slate
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Endorsements:
Dana: Never Goodnight by Coco Moodysson
Julia: Lifetime’s UnReal and John Wick
Steve: Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries
Outro: “J.D. Blows Up” from the Heathers soundtrack by David Newman
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This podcast was produced by Ann Heppermann. Our interns are Lindsey Albracht and Marissa Visci.
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