41 min
Off Script Episode 13, or “Eleanor Roosevelt says you should listen.” Off Script
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- TV & Film
In which Kylie Klein-Nixon and Emily Brookes discuss the Netflix series Hollywood and dig deep into the camp confection that is Ryan Murphy’s filmography.
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Hollywood in the late 1940s: Glitz and glamour, big studios and tiny waists, beautiful women, handsome men - and racism, sexism, and homophobia in spades.
That’s the basic gist of Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series Hollywood, an impeccably elegant period piece about a group of beautiful young aspiring actors and filmmakers in the post-war US who face all kinds of ingrained societal hurdles as they fight to realise their dreams.
It’s Ryan Murphy, he of Popular, Nip/Tuck, Glee, American Horror Story, Feud, Pose, The Politican and much more, so this show is as stylish as Timothee Chalamet (spoiler: he’s #1) and as camp as a rear field on the second day of Glastonbury.
But is it any good?
The answer to that question might depend on how high your threshold is for fix-it revisionist history in which spunk and gumption is enough to overcome biases so ingrained that they continue to make headlines today; ours, it turns out, is pretty low.
Join Kylie and Emily for a romp through Ryan Murphy’s back catalogue, confessions about our teenage years and our thoughts on when Hollywood does Hollywood well, and when it doesn’t.
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Hollywood is streaming in its entirety on Netflix, so go watch and tell us if we’re totally wrong.
You Must Remember This is Karina Longworth’s glorious podcast about Hollywood’s forgotten history.
Kenneth Anger’s controversial Hollywood Babylon covers some of the same ground as Hollywood, but in a very different way.
Watch the Coen Brothers’ under-rated Hail Caesar and imagine Kylie tucked up next to a giant butt.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/off-script-nz/message
In which Kylie Klein-Nixon and Emily Brookes discuss the Netflix series Hollywood and dig deep into the camp confection that is Ryan Murphy’s filmography.
*
Hollywood in the late 1940s: Glitz and glamour, big studios and tiny waists, beautiful women, handsome men - and racism, sexism, and homophobia in spades.
That’s the basic gist of Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series Hollywood, an impeccably elegant period piece about a group of beautiful young aspiring actors and filmmakers in the post-war US who face all kinds of ingrained societal hurdles as they fight to realise their dreams.
It’s Ryan Murphy, he of Popular, Nip/Tuck, Glee, American Horror Story, Feud, Pose, The Politican and much more, so this show is as stylish as Timothee Chalamet (spoiler: he’s #1) and as camp as a rear field on the second day of Glastonbury.
But is it any good?
The answer to that question might depend on how high your threshold is for fix-it revisionist history in which spunk and gumption is enough to overcome biases so ingrained that they continue to make headlines today; ours, it turns out, is pretty low.
Join Kylie and Emily for a romp through Ryan Murphy’s back catalogue, confessions about our teenage years and our thoughts on when Hollywood does Hollywood well, and when it doesn’t.
*
Hollywood is streaming in its entirety on Netflix, so go watch and tell us if we’re totally wrong.
You Must Remember This is Karina Longworth’s glorious podcast about Hollywood’s forgotten history.
Kenneth Anger’s controversial Hollywood Babylon covers some of the same ground as Hollywood, but in a very different way.
Watch the Coen Brothers’ under-rated Hail Caesar and imagine Kylie tucked up next to a giant butt.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/off-script-nz/message
41 min