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This week, the critics discuss Luca Guadagnino’s new film Call Me by Your Name, its careful handling of a teenager’s sexual awakening, and the issues about consent that critics have raised about the relationship between the two leads. Then, Slate’s Aisha Harris joins the conversation to talk about Spike Lee’s new series She’s Gotta Have It, a remake of his first feature film. How have the politics of the story changed since its original iteration, and is the main character empowered in a new way this time around? Finally, Jacob Brogan joins the gabbers to talk about the podcast The Polybius Conspiracy and the dubious ethics of making a mockumentary.
Links to some of the things we discussed this week:
- Call Me by Your Name trailer
- Dana’s review of Call Me by Your Name
- Moonlight
- She’s Gotta Have It on Netflix
- The movie She’s Gotta Have It
- Insecure
- “The Culture Caught Up With Spike Lee—Now What?” by Thomas Chatterton Williams in the New York Times
- The Polybius Conspiracy
- “The Polybius Conspiracy’s Story of an Arcade Urban Legend Is Twisty Fun. It’s Also Fake.” by Jacob Brogan in Slate
- American Vandal
Endorsements
Dana: The Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Julia: The new Slate podcast Slow Burn, about what it was like to live through the Watergate scandal
Stephen: The episode “Jews & Blues” of the series American Routes and “Elephant” by Jason Isbell
Outro: “Elephant” by Jason Isbell
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