Episode 46: 1.23.25
new year, new dissociation tactics
I didn’t want to post a new episode until we were all properly “““settled””” into our own personal or national horrors (and I refuse to post unless at least some of the news is fun).
While you were all out mourning the “death of democracy,” or TikTok or whatever, I was mourning the death of democracy and TikTok IN THE SNOW! Who knew the secret to happiness was getting a fix of 3”+ snow every month?
Top News:
We’re burning down Mr. Oscar’s house. Challengers got SNUBBED. Denis Villeneuve got SNUBBED. Lily-Rose Depp got SNUBBED. Queer got SNUBBED. BABYGIRL SNUBBED (just kidding, please don’t believe I loved this movie).
Here’s the full list of folks who didn’t get snubbed for your upcoming bingo cards.
y’all know who i’m rooting for (yaoi adultery) On the other hand, I’m very happy Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin are fighting it out in the same category with their first O-noms. I’ve heard a couple of blinds that they don’t talk to each other as of late. It’s like the method acting never ends.
live reaction of the academy consoling itself for repeatedly ignoring luca guadagnino post-Call Me By Your Name If you’re like me, you may be thinking, “Hey, what happened to the monkey movie? Is the Robbie Williams monkey movie good? Please don’t tell me it got Oscar nominations.”
Well, it got one more Oscar nomination (1) than Challengers did (0).
they should’ve made jeremy o’conner a monkey instead I spent a long time dissociating this month trying to find truly any good music by Robbie Williams. I’m a sucker for a brainless bop! We all know this! And yet! Like, I’m sure it’ll fit into a campy weird movie, but I don’t know about any out-of-context listening here.
I know I haven’t shut UP about Real Housewives of Salt Lake City since it debuted, but this season’s finale was the wildest and most beautiful recreation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit I’ve ever seen. It is simply the best reality television I’ve ever seen (and I’m including The Traitors in this).
If you want to turn off your brain and your phone for the next few years, I highly suggest getting a Peacock subscription and watching all 5 seasons. This year’s finale made me scream! Made me tear up! Made me hoot and holler! The way this show goes from 0-60 is unparalleled. Emmy Campaign for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program 2025!!!!!!!!
who’s down to play this in 2025
Great news, marketers. Guerrilla marketing/pop-ups are BACK with Severance’s new season celebration. I believe all shows should put their little actors into boxes across the country and make them perform for us like it’s a silly little silent play.
Do this with Game of Thrones next and stick Olivia Cooke and Emma D’Arcy in a box in full garb and make them be mean to each other for three hours.
hell, just make them recreate this fantastic shoot for Entertainment Weekly, I don’t give a fuck
Robert Pattinson has also been doing cute promo for Mickey 17 (2025). Love love love the social media teams for films this season.
inject content like this into my eyeball veins Speaking of Game of Thrones, Blake Lively called Taylor Swift her little dragon or something in a text to her ex-colleague in their ongoing legal feud:
“If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better. Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So, really, we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You will too, I can promise you.”
🥰 there are so many levels to this 🥰 i simply will not touch any aspect of it any further 🥰 thank you 🥰 can’t wait for the FEUD: Lively Vs. Baldoni (FX) twenty years from now from my apocalypse bunker
I watched Babygirl (2024) and I did not like it! I went with a friend and she threw up twice during the movie (reasons only somewhat unrelated).
Another friend told me they have a headcanon that Babygirl is just a Pete Davidson Wattpad self-insert fanfic and now I can’t stop thinking about it. The fake tattoos Harris Dickinson wears in the film made me audibly gasp when I saw them but in a bad way.
I’m very glad Nicole Kidman had a great time filming it and promoting it, but if you want to watch Harris Dickinson be hot in a weird sexual dynamic, watch Triangle of Sadness (2022), and if you want to watch a good d/s dynamic, (re)watch Secretary (2002). If you want to watch gratuitous milk consumption, watch The Aristocats (1970) or something.
gonna call everyone I know who drinks milk a dairy perv now
Now Listening:
Supercut - Lorde (and the live performance from LordeFest 2022)
Melodrama (2017) is an album of all time. I made a little playlist this month to listen while staying awake on the interstate that gave the same vibe as my college parties back in the day, and it brought me back to my love. Counting down the however many days until her new album (?) comes out this year (?).
This was a delight!