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This week on Slate Plus, Stephen, David and Julia go back over a few topics from last week now that they’re all back together.
On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the critics discuss the new mishmash of a movie Colossal, starring Anne Hathaway as an American woman who discovers that she somehow controls a giant monster attacking South Korea. Does Hathaway drag the movie down with her, or is she its saving grace? Next they talk Review, a television show on Comedy Central that just wrapped up its final season. The show follows a “reviewer of life” and the darkly comedic results of his over-commitment to his assignments. Finally, the gabbers watch the Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad and break down its absurdities.
We’re excited to be heading to Australia in May 2017! We’ll be at the Sydney Writers Festival on May 27 and in Melbourne at the Wheeler Centre on May 31.
Links to some of the things we discussed this week:
- Colossal
- Safety Not Guaranteed
- Review
- Reno 911!
- The Truman Show
- Sandy Kenyon’s Taxi TV film reviews
- Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad
- “How Could You Possibly Make This Ad?” by Daniel Gross in Slate
- “30 Questions for Pepsi About Its Protest Imagery–Inspired Soda Commercial” by the Slate Staff
Endorsements
Dana: Former Gabfest intern Josephine Livingstone’s writing in the New Republic
Julia: The final season of Girls
Stephen: The Welcome to Night Vale live show; Faisal Devji’s “Post-Interest Politics” in the Los Angeles Review of Books; “Clay Pigeons” by Blaze Foley; and “Blues Run the Game” by Jackson C. Frank
Outro: “Clay Pigeons” by Blaze Foley
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