13 episodios
X/Z: Cross-Generational Cultural Discourse XZCrossGenerational
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Mother/daughter team Amanda and Emma chat about culture from the perspectives of a Gen X-er and a Gen Z-er.
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Found Family and Melancholia: Unpacking Early Wes Anderson
Amanda and Emma uncover the common themes of Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
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Looking Through a Glass Onion: Rian Johnson's Whodunits and Late Stage Capitalism
Amanda and Emma consider capitalist critiques in Rian Johnson's delicious whodunits, "Knives Out" and "Glass Onion".
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Persuasion; Or, How Things Can Go Very Wrong (or Very Right) When Adapting Austen
Amanda and Emma do a bit of compare and contrast, as they discuss three adaptations of Jane Austen's Persuasion: 1995 starring Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds, 2007 with Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones, and the ill-begotten 2022 version featuring Dakota Johnson and Cosmo Jarvis.
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This Ship is Sailing! Why We Love Our Flag Means Death
Amanda and Emma consider the sweet wonders of piratical love at sea in Our Flag Means Death.
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CODA: An Amazing Movie with a Bad High School Musical Subplot
Emma and Amanda script doctor the Oscar contender CODA. There's a great movie in there somewhere, but the High School Musical stuff has to go.
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No More Ross Hate: Joel Cohen's The Tragedy of Macbeth
Amanda and Emma analyze Joel Cohen's Oscar-bait film, The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). The witch(es)! The crows! And is Ross actually the protagonist of the play? What?