1 hr 31 min
87. Romy & Michele's High School Reunion Load Bearing Beams
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- TV & Film
The nineties, baby. We're getting into it over Romy & Michele's High School Reunion (1997), which sees Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino as the attractive women version of Beavis and Butt-Head trying to persuade their former high school classmates that they invented Post-Its. But beneath this sweet and pleasant comedy lurks something far more sinister. Is this actually a toxic, co-dependant friendship that's imprisoning both Romy and Michele? Would their lives be better if they actually stayed split up after their Tucson road trip? And why would anybody ever want to go to their high school reunion?
Content warning: We discuss the sexual abuse allegations against both Woody Allen and Harvey Weinstein.
Much of the history we cover in this episode is sourced from Vogue's 2022 oral history of "Romy & Michele's High School Reunion" by Keaton Bell, which you can read here: https://www.vogue.com/article/an-oral-history-of-romy-and-micheles-high-school-reunion
Want to watch our show on YouTube? Head to https://www.youtube.com/@loadbearingbeamspod to watch new, full video episodes every week.
Artwork by Laci Roth.
Music by Rural Route Nine (https://open.spotify.com/album/3oj7ZSGqfnZTtTlXa1fyeo?si=fZxDj8ZWT-2SpxhTUIdxow).
The nineties, baby. We're getting into it over Romy & Michele's High School Reunion (1997), which sees Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino as the attractive women version of Beavis and Butt-Head trying to persuade their former high school classmates that they invented Post-Its. But beneath this sweet and pleasant comedy lurks something far more sinister. Is this actually a toxic, co-dependant friendship that's imprisoning both Romy and Michele? Would their lives be better if they actually stayed split up after their Tucson road trip? And why would anybody ever want to go to their high school reunion?
Content warning: We discuss the sexual abuse allegations against both Woody Allen and Harvey Weinstein.
Much of the history we cover in this episode is sourced from Vogue's 2022 oral history of "Romy & Michele's High School Reunion" by Keaton Bell, which you can read here: https://www.vogue.com/article/an-oral-history-of-romy-and-micheles-high-school-reunion
Want to watch our show on YouTube? Head to https://www.youtube.com/@loadbearingbeamspod to watch new, full video episodes every week.
Artwork by Laci Roth.
Music by Rural Route Nine (https://open.spotify.com/album/3oj7ZSGqfnZTtTlXa1fyeo?si=fZxDj8ZWT-2SpxhTUIdxow).
1 hr 31 min