After Hours (That Escalated Quickly)

Welcome to THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY, a theme dedicated to movies that start in one genre and end in another. Our first movie is After Hours, which begins as a movie about a guy looking for a plaster of paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight and ends… well… as one. BDM and Clare bring on their second guest, novelist Austin Grossman, to discuss Martin Scorsese's weird, beautiful 1985 masterpiece. The drinking-while-recording policy produces some predictable consequences. Clare talks about her dad's experiences bartending in Manhattan around the same period as the movie. Martin Scorsese, if you're reading come on the pod; we promise we won't get drunk that time. Full notes at: https://www.patreon.com/stetpod