Stet B.D. McClay

Clare and BDM talk Metropolitan, Whit Stillman's 1990 comedy of manners, with special guest John Ganz of Unpopular Front and Unclear and Present Danger. Discussed: Upper East Side childhoods, Whit Stillman and Lena Dunham, and manners.

This should have been up much earlier, but it was not! Clare, BDM, and producer Austin talk Patrick McHale's Over the Garden Wall. How is it perfect? Why is it perfect? These and other issues are investigated at length.

When women tell you they're a big cat, believe them…. BDM and Clare talk Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur's 1942 masterpiece Cat People, a movie about how Americans know nothing and psychologists have to die. Also discussed: animal brides. Not discussed: "Cat Person," but Patreon subscribers can look forward to a little treat on that front. https://www.patreon.com/stetpod

Stet returns! Clare and BDM talk Scream, a movie one likes and the other hates. Discussed topics: Why Death is your boyfriend, how Rose McGowan wuz robbed, how men in Woodsboro can't make normal facial expressions, and the limits of being meta about the stuff you just want to do anyway.

BDM and Clare watch Incident at Loch Ness, a Zak Penn/Werner Herzog documentary about the making of a documentary that collided with another documentary. "Tell me, who is real and who is not?" Herzog pleads… but we'll never tell. Then in the second half there is discussion of Olivia Rodrigo, the passage of time, the fickleness of memory, whether or not getting over something is possible, internet churn, children getting older while we're getting older too. Full show notes: https://www.patreon.com/stetpod

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