October 2, 2025 • 22 mins
It’s that special time of the week when we recommend the best new releases, just in time for the weekend.First up, Hollywood’s golden boy (and Tom Cruise protege) Glen Powell stars in a highly anticipated new comedy, and it’s not…great. Allow us to give you a very honest review.
Plus, a new high-stakes, erotic thriller has just landed on our screens, starring one of our favorite actresses, and it's the one series we recommend you binge this weekend. Hear Laura's No Filter interview with Watching You's Aisha Dee
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm Laura Brodney and I'm and m.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And welcome to Weekend Watch, where we talk about the
best new TV shows and movies that have just dropped
this week in time for the weekend. We have two
duties to talk about today. You don't let me do
my introh Okay, go ahead and do your intro. We
can what Okay, literally never heard you do that before.
It's different every time.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Okay, I think put it all together. Let's give our
team more work.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Michael is our video producer. If you could just like
smash them all together. Josh is also a video producer.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Help them out.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm gonna offline this.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Who's our audio producer? Like, let's all get the boys together.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Just these men deal with enough drama from us every
single day. They can't do well.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
All my Weekend Watch intros in a row. And let's
get the Spillers to vote for them. And then instead, let's.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Get a famous musician or singer to like set them
to a funky tune. Oh, who should we remix them?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Sabrina Carpenter? If you boys can handle that, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, great, We'll get in touch with her.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Anyway, coming off the show, chay As I said, we're
talking about two new TV shows that have just come
out this week. But also, so this comes out at
six am. I'm not awake, but I'm guessing half the
world is awake because they know that later today Taylor
Swift's new album is going to be released into the world.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Oh my god, I am so excited because I'm going
away for the long week old and It's like I'm
driving for about three hours and I'm going to listen
to the whole album.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, I am spending my Saturday going to the movies
to see the Taylor Swift movie. Would I do that
if I was in this job, maybe not. But I'm not.
Only I'm going to the movie and then I'm going
straight home to my laptop where I'm going to write
a review that's going to go live on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I mean, you're not going to bring your laptop into
the movie.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I'm just in the movie recapping live and your
laptop is old.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Okay, it like makes noises distruction on the whole.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Night the other day. Also, we just keep an eye
on the Spill socials over the weekend because Tina Burke
and I are going to be doing live live review
on our stories and reaction funny. But also next week
we have some very special Tailor Swift content planned with
a Tailor Swift insider. That's all I'll say. I know
exactly Okay, you know the story. You can't, So guys
(02:33):
be watching the Spill next week anyway. That is this
afternoon's excitement next week's. But then today we have our
recommendations for the weekend. Take it away, Emily, Please don't sing.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay, I'll try not to. No, I won't. I won't sing.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
So I started watching a TV show this week, Huge
that I was so excited to recommend for weekend watch,
and now I'm thinking about maybe I shouldn't recommend.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That anti recommendation.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's not an anti recommendation. It's a recommendation where it's
so bad it's kind of good.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Sometimes it's a warning, like not everything we talk about
in this episode can be the greatest movie in the world.
The gross TV show on the world, because that would
be a lie, and we don't lie to the spill
its exactly. This is more of like you've seeing it's
out in the world.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's more like I want other people to see it
so we can just talk about it. Yeah, it's a
TV show on Disney Plus and it's created and starred
by our good friend Glenn Powers, Glen pal It's called
Chad Powers Son.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's time to face it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Your football career is over. We're here on the grandest
stage in American sports, Kirk.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And for rost holiday a chance to do something special.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You were show voting and you blew the game.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
There's this one problem, Dad, I'm not done with football.
South Georgia's having open tryouts. I'm gonna do a Missus dowtfire.
But with football.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You hear the trut Yeah, and last name.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I've watched the first episode.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's not like bad but in relation to other comedy
it's meant to be like a comedy sports show. In
relation to like the comedy sports show we have now,
like a tad lesso.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It falls a bit short.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay, So it stars Glenn Powell. He plays this really
famous NFL player quarterback named Russ Holliday.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Russ is a shit.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Guy, and not like in a shit guy where the
character is like he's just misunderstood by everyone his life.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
No, he's bad.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
He's an actual shit.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, Like a young child dies of cancer and he's like,
did he take the vaccine?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Like he's a bad person, because that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
He's a bad person who's been shamed from the sport.
He's like uninsurable basically, so he can't even do like
little TV segments or little movie segments. He's just this
really really famous guy that no one wants anything to
do with him because he's trash.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
He misses the game.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So his dad works in prosthetics for Hollywood, and his
dad gave him a little prosthetic nose and wig because
he doesn't have a job. So Dad's like, you're gonna
have to start working for me because you need to
make money. You can't sleep on my cash all day.
He's like, Michael Bay needs this mask. Go drive over
to Hollywood and give.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It him to the Michael Bay to the Michael Bank
Transformers Visionary, extraordinary, Transformers, slightly problematic, Michael Bay, wildly problematic.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Russ is like in his car and he's like just
thinking about himself because there's nothing else to think about
when you're Russ holiday.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And then he kind of looks.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
At the prosthetics and he's like, maybe I can get
back into the NFL if I just pretend to be
someone else. And then that's the whole show. It's him
putting on this alter ego named Chad Powers to get
back into footy because that's all he ever wanted to do.
And you know what, I'm sure he learned some lessons
on the way. Haven't got to that part yet.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You've got to learn so I mean, the thing is he's.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Got some real bad reviews, which makes me really.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But also sometimes the first episode is just a bit
rocky and you've got to push through, but you're not
getting that vibe.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I'm not getting that vibe so far, I think because
like I've recommended so many like sport adjacent I know
TV shows like we love Taed Lasso, we love Running Point,
we love the others.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Those are the ti that come to my head.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We love talking about sports through the limbs of a tailor's.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yes, and it also helps us understand sports more, which
is what they're like you know, like when Drive to
Survive took off and then she just got all these
females into like the f one sport. Like I think
everyone in Hollywood is trying to jump on that bandwagon.
Like we have Ryan Reynolds and Rob mcahenny making their
like documentaries on sport, Evil and Gloria's jumping on sports.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Glenn Powell tried to jump on sport.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah. Do we think Glenn Powell's okay? That's my question.
Do we think that poor boy's okay? Because I remember
he did.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That GQ interview that we loved.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, but you can't make a career of that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
But what I think is like what happened was I
think the GQ interview kind of like now fall short
for me because of Chad Power.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Because it hasn't backed up with the work he's put out.
I just think he came out of the gate so
strong with his first blockbuster role in Top Gun Maverick.
I was gonna say the idea of you he wasn't
in that. These movie names also we need it. He
came out of the gate so strong with Top Gun Maverick,
(07:10):
and even though Miles Teller was the star, he was
kind of the fan favorite start two pic. Yeah exactly
so hot, I can't talk about it. And then anyone
but you became such a huge success, and he was
so good on the press tour for that, you know
he was. He was there trying to be all like
quirky and fun. He would do like sing along with
the crowd.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He got his parents, his parents involved, he got Brisket involved,
his dog.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, his parents walk here and sign saying stop trying
to make Glenn power happen. So cutes. He's so funny here.
That horrific break up with his girlfriend somehow came for
it came out smelling like roses. And then he was
the chosen one of Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
He went to the Tom Cruise School of Acting.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Which we've learned sounds very prestigious, like it's going to
be in an academy or in like in a bunker somewhere.
It's actually in Tom Cruise's house and you just go
and watch all his movies.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's in Tom Cruise's house, but Tom Cruise is not there.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, Tom Cruise is too busy. But then Glenn had
to go to all of Tom Cruise's premiers and stuff
and had popcorn with him.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Remember Tom Cruise, he loves popcorn so much more than us,
and we really love popcorn.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Do you think that Glenn was like a rebellious child
picking this TV show? What's called it in Chad Powers?
Chad Powers so non descript. Do you think that Glenn
was like, I'm gonna make my own decisions because now
I've graduated from the Tom Cruise school of acting and
I'm ready to get out there. And he chose Chad Powers.
And then he sat down with Tom Cruise and Tom
Cruise is too busy, so he's on a video call
(08:28):
and he shows it to Tom and Tom is like,
I'm so disappointed in you. Yeah, this is not what
I taught you. I think Tom Cruise won't even allow
himself to die in a movie, get properly hurt in
a movie. He won't allow himself to be like filmed
from certain angles like he is. The mythology has to be.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The same heart.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, he like gets people cut off with the knees
if they're taller than him. He's got lifts in his
shoes and his hair.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
What I think Glenn Powell did was that he thought
Chad Powers was a safe bet, because if you read
between the lines, Chad Powers is actually an algamation of
every other movie he's done. So we've got The hit Man,
he's like alter ego we.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Have, and I've got bad reviews as well, bad reviews.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
We've got top Gun Maverick, where he's like this big
sport good looking guy.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, he like guys, remember when I was cool and fabulous.
We got the idea of you about you, anyone but you,
anyone but you do. We've christ anyone but you, Hathaway.
It was like a blonde female love inder interest. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So he thought, I've got all of these good aspects
of everyone loves about me. If I put them all
in one show, surely.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's a given, im dunk.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And he thought everyone's going to see me as his
cool comedic actor and it's going to open up all
of these other roles for him. And then we all
just went don't like it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, I mean it's early days. The show could get better.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
So everyone just watch it just so you can talk
to Emily about it. Can we watch it on Disney
on Disney Plus? Okay? Anyone else thoughts and prays with Powell.
Hope he's okay. I hope, he's scared, He's fine, he's okay.
Changing tact a bit because I am recommending a new
erotic psychological thriller.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Erotic, psychological, all the buzzwords.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We love.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You've been doing a lot of thrillers lately.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm looking for thrills in my life from the safety
of my little apartment.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm getting scared you'll like this one.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You'll like this one a lot. Well, you'll feel very deeply.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I just started watching your last week's wreck, Way Wait, Wayward.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, pretty clod as well. I just want to be
alone in a room with her.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well, what I'm recommending this week, which will give you
nightmares for the rest of the week and make you
never touch another human being again, is a new show
that's to just come out on stand today, a new
six part series called Watching You Lena means the needs
some work for us. It's pleasure to meet you, Lena.
Someone has the video, who knows what they've seen, what
(10:44):
they've done with the footage?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Do you want to know what truth looks like?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Watch someone when they don't know if they're being watched.
She can be watching us right now. Now here's how
I'm going to get you into the show. It stars
one of our phaves, Asha d so many roles, no
one for The Bold Type. She's cut in The Bold Type.
She was recently an apple cider Vinegar on Netflix. Some
people would know her from The Status Club, her first
(11:11):
big role. That's where I know, it's where you're star
struck by her. You had you hung out with her recently?
I did. I interviewed her for No Filter, sorry to
cheat on the spill, and I broke my rule of
interviewing people on my favorite TV shows because I love
the Bold Type of watch all the time, so try
not to make eye contact with her for the whole
hour long interview. But she's got an incredible story, like
(11:32):
her whole career, what she's been through in the industry,
but also in her personal life. And unfortunately I did
yell at her just once because she couldn't remember how
The Bold Type ended. And I've watched that episode about
fifty times. So she's so cool. She's the coolest person.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
She even taking a photo with her.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
She touched my back, did she? And you haven't watched
that back since? No?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No, no, no, She's just so freaking.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Like beautiful, the most beautiful funny there staring right into
her eyes. She's probably like I was in an office
full of women, get so giggly and nervous as when
Asian came.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Silent, She's like, do you guys want to all jump
into the vendom?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah? Okay, and everyone was like no, anyway, I'll linked
the no filter in the show notes if anyone wants
to listen. But what's so interesting is like, yeah, she's
come back to all these incredible Australian productions and watching
you as one of them. So in it, she plays
a young woman called Lena who is engaged and like
very happy in a relationship, and then she has a
chance encounter with a mysterious stranger and they have a
night of wild passion. Oh, which you think that could
(12:33):
be the story. It's like, does she go right to
a film? Sad? She's stay with this guy. But the
story gets much more intense because that Night of passion
has been secretly filmed. She finds out later and then
she does to do well, that's the mystery, isn't it.
And then she starts getting black mail and she starts
unraveling all these different story threads and it becomes very
very intense. It's a bit of a stalking element, and
(12:53):
Asha d is just so good in it. It's one
of her best performances. But it is a very like
in tense watch like my heart was beating so fast
in the first few Is.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It like fleefully thrillers? Like comedic elements.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I wouldn't watch it for a laugh. Okay, I wouldn't
watch it for a while. But it's not like you no, no, no,
no no. It's much more high brad.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, okay, okay, it's much more serious.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a serious story. But yeah, it opens
a lot a lot of different, like kind of discussions
around the surveillance world we live in and dating and
hookup culture and who you can trust and was.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
The film actually Ai?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Like was it actually Ai?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And it wasn't her actually in the movie in that
recording of her making love?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I don't want to I don't think AI is a huge.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
The whole point is that you have to watch it.
I just want to know because no, no, no no. It's
one of those things where like just be careful not
to get any spoilers beforehand, because like it's one of
those TV shows where there's six episodes filming Emily, that's
not the imagine if it before the show has even
like properly come out, and they have been so careful
Asha and her co stars and the press tour, they've
(14:00):
been so careful not to spoil anything. You know what
I think?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Okay, I think her fiance is also cheating, and as
a way out of the relationship, he got the person
he was cheating with to film them to push her.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
To break up.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'm literally not saying anything.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I think that's great storytelling on it half, but I think.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You'll just have to watch it. So every episode there's
like a new reveal, yeah of like where the plot's going,
and like lots of twists and turns, but.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Also maybe she has filmed it herself.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
To stop you right there, and you can't guess the ending. Okay,
you can't guess the reveal. But I think he would
really like it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, I love her. I watch everything she's made.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I would just watch it for her. But it's also
just really good storytelling, great Austraian casts, great astrain production, and.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Just that's a lot of hot, isn't it trailer.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Again, I was like, oh, I know this is meant
to be like a critique of society and stuff and
almost like this is a lot of hot people hook
it up together, and I do enjoy that while while
I'm learning a lesson.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So watching you on stan it's out today, six episodes,
so good, and we we'll the No Filter and the
show notes because the more you kind of know about
Asha d, the more you just want to go watch everything.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
With your interview with as chef and No Filter. Was
there anything about that interview, because that's actually a long
form interview and I feel like.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
In this room, this route, you were sitting in the
same chair she was sitting in. And not to make
you feel bad about yourself, but you know how you
and I just like don't touch the mic stands and
stuff because we're just really inept. She came in and
fixed that mike stand herself. It's sitting at that angle
for you right now because she fixed it for you.
She's a doer. I can't relate.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Was there anything about what she said in the interview
that surprised you?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, because afterwards she said like, oh wow, I've never
really told that story before. But I guess we just
got really in depth in the hour that we were together,
so she talked about getting the role of Cat on
The Bold Tie, which if anyone hasn't watched that show,
it's one of my favorites. It's such a good comfort watch.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It is the best show.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It stars Katie Stevens and Megan Fahey before she blew
up in the White Lotus and everything she's doing.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I actually rewatched The Bold Type recently. It all looks
so young.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
They were the little baby faces.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I forgot how young we all were when we watched it.
And also it was around the time where I think
I was only a year in at Mum and Me,
and it was the first piece of television where every
single one of us who worked in that office was
watching it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, oh yeah. It was like every time a new
episode The Ball Type dropped, it was like an event.
It was an event in the Mirror office.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It was like kind of about us.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And when we moved to our last new office, everyone
was like, oh my god, we're going to be much
more like The Bold Type because this has a proper lobby.
And when we moved to this office, everyone's like, we're
going to be even more like And when Asha walked in,
she was like, Yeah, I'm getting that kind of that
energy from you guys. And I was like, oh, we're
a bad.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I was like, are we the Bold Type?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Asia, She's like, I guess you ought to be, but yes.
It's based on a real life story of Joanna Coles,
who's a former Cosmo editor, and it tells the story
the Bold Type of three young women working at a
fictional magazine called Scarlet. So you've got Jane who's the writer,
and then Ahd plays Cat, who's the social media goal,
and then Sutton plays the fashion gal. And it's about
(17:02):
all of their lives and so like their professional lives
and their love lives, but mostly about their friendship, which
I love. Yeah, it's so good and it's so funny
because in the no interview we were talking about and
Asia said like that, Megan Fahey used to say that
The Bold Type is pretty much Sesame Street for adults.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's like, it's so fun to watch, but you always
learn a lesson after every episode. It was so true.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And also the fact that you see in the show
The Bold Type like they all became best friends through work,
and I feel like you rarely see that on movies.
And TVs, like you always see these lifelong friendships of
women who went to school together or women who went
to college together. And this was the first time I
saw friendships that were formed at work. And that was
(17:44):
such a revelation for me because I was like, oh
my god, they've only been best friends for like two years.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And what we know to be like statistically correct, is
that most adults, particularly women, make their adult friendships at work,
Like where else are you going to meet people? Really,
And so it was really interesting to watch these women
who it's like their colleagues became their family, which I
don't know, it's something I've experienced, something I know you've experienced.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Was literally literally held my roommate at the time, Lucy
Neville's was a word.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I was like, it's true, it happens, won't matter word.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I was like, this is us, it's us. Anyway, it's
such such a good show. So anyway, I was asking
Asia about getting that role, and she said she was
initially quite nervous to play Cat on the Bold Type
because a big part of Cat's character is that she
is a queer woman, and as she discovers that in
the show, she becomes a very proud and loud queer woman,
and she becomes a real advocate and that's a huge
(18:34):
part of her storyline throughout The Bold Type. And Asha
d was saying something she hadn't really talked about much
before is that at the time, she knew she was queer,
but she was very much in the closet, and she
was very nervous about coming out and she sometimes felt,
she said, it was very hard to play on screen
the thing you want that she wanted to be a
very out, proud queer woman, but she was quite nervous
(18:55):
about that behind the scenes, and so she kept that in.
And she said that sans because the show became such
a huge hit, became syndicated across the world. She said
that she would be walking through the streets and people
would come up to her and hug her and say,
Kat helped me come out. Cat helped me like realized
I was queer. Cat did all these things, and she's like,
she loved that, but she's also like, I can't do that.
(19:16):
So when she did come out, and she said, it
was like a long process of coming out and telling
different people and sometimes it went well and sometimes it didn't.
But she said that she did find like a little
bit of strength in the character of Cat and playing
the thing that she wanted to be. And I thought
that was so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's so beautiful, And it's so interesting how it can
go both ways, because I remember kind of similar but
not exactly the same. Obviously, when Renee Rapp was doing
sex fives on College Girls, she had to leave that
show because of the identity Cristis it gave her. And
it's really interesting that you can play these roles where
you become so connected to your character that can also
(19:51):
become your undoing and like it can show you that
you either want to keep doing it because that character
gives you strength, or it does a complete opposite where
you have to leave and remove yourself exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And that's the power of these kind of TV shows.
And I hope that some people think go a bit naff,
like all the ball type's just a bit silly. And
I said it to Asha, I was like, I get
really defensive when a lot of critics, and particular especially
a lot of like older male critics, because they're still
the ones who have the jobs at like the bigger publications.
We're just like, oh, it's such a silly little show.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It's so frothy for like teenage girls.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, and I was saying, like I always find it
so irritating when shows like this. It's like, yes, they're
not like these intense hard dramas, but does it mean
they're not a quality show? Because if this is a
show about three young women being raped and murdered, we'd
call it prestige TV. Because it's about three young women
going to work and like living their lives and still
having really intense situations to go through. It's seen as
(20:42):
froth Yeah, And I was like, god for being a
woman just goes to work and has a friend and
is not being raped in a park and her body's
being found. Like we've got enough of that TV. Let's
have this other side of it. And it's so funny
because an Asia was saying, She's like, yeah, I remember
when the reviews came out, so many people were like
this is actually good.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
That's so weird, Like people were shocked at Oh, they
were looking for something yeah about it.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
They were looking to write a bad review.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
On it because it's like this is a great show.
Too bad it to only aim for like young girls.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, like your daughter would it.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, it's like anything for young women has written off
as stilly ye. So yeah, it was such a good interview.
And for anyone who hasn't, I guess that's a bonus
recommendation for anyone who hasn't watched The Bold Type.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Please really the ball Type.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No stop it. I can't it's too much. It is
so good. We've had all the main cast of The
Bold Type on the Spill. Oh my god. We had
Katie Stephen. She was so funny. I brought that up
to Asia. We had John Meg and Fai he did
when she came on the Spill. I will love her
for over. For this. She was like traveling or filming.
She was alone in a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
She had an iPad missap.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
She had an iPad mishap where she couldn't sign in
on her iPad and she didn't want to miss her
Spill interview, so she walked around knocking on people's doors
until she final found an iPad to borrow. She did
the interview from there, and I was like, that is
a professional girl, That's why you're successful. Anyone also had
been like sorry, I can't do it, so I can't
do it. So good anyway, watch the ball type. It's
a throwback recommendations. Throwback recommendation, so bold types on stand
(22:04):
and then wat she used also on Stan. Okay, so yeah,
let's not bring that man into this. It's like you
watch watching you and your bit like.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Man, I wish I recommended the.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Don't put Chad Pouse when you read the Weekend Watch
article this week.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Pretend my name's I'm on Chad Palse.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Let's go to me.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
Weekend Watch. I'm so sorry about my recommendations, but don't
hold it against me.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Okay, I'm trying.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Also, I followed the rules because Chad Powers came out
this week. Okay, I'm gonta recommend it something crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's all apologizing.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You're fine, don't forget to tune in later today at
three pm for our Friday episode where we're doing a
brutally honest review.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
It's a secret, so I'm not gonna spoil it.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But it's one spillers that you have recommended, and it's
also one that you have screamed down my throat.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So we're going to be doing this later today.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
We will see you then, Bye bye,
So you're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and borders that this podcast
is recorded on From Mamma Mia. Welcome to the Spill,
your daily pop culture fix.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm Laura Brodney and I'm and m.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And welcome to Weekend Watch, where we talk about the
best new TV shows and movies that have just dropped
this week in time for the weekend. We have two
duties to talk about today. You don't let me do
my introh Okay, go ahead and do your intro. We
can what Okay, literally never heard you do that before.
It's different every time.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Okay, I think put it all together. Let's give our
team more work.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Michael is our video producer. If you could just like
smash them all together. Josh is also a video producer.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Help them out.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm gonna offline this.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Who's our audio producer? Like, let's all get the boys together.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Just these men deal with enough drama from us every
single day. They can't do well.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
All my Weekend Watch intros in a row. And let's
get the Spillers to vote for them. And then instead, let's.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Get a famous musician or singer to like set them
to a funky tune. Oh, who should we remix them?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Sabrina Carpenter? If you boys can handle that, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, great, We'll get in touch with her.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Anyway, coming off the show, chay As I said, we're
talking about two new TV shows that have just come
out this week. But also, so this comes out at
six am. I'm not awake, but I'm guessing half the
world is awake because they know that later today Taylor
Swift's new album is going to be released into the world.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Oh my god, I am so excited because I'm going
away for the long week old and It's like I'm
driving for about three hours and I'm going to listen
to the whole album.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, I am spending my Saturday going to the movies
to see the Taylor Swift movie. Would I do that
if I was in this job, maybe not. But I'm not.
Only I'm going to the movie and then I'm going
straight home to my laptop where I'm going to write
a review that's going to go live on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I mean, you're not going to bring your laptop into
the movie.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I'm just in the movie recapping live and your
laptop is old.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Okay, it like makes noises distruction on the whole.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Night the other day. Also, we just keep an eye
on the Spill socials over the weekend because Tina Burke
and I are going to be doing live live review
on our stories and reaction funny. But also next week
we have some very special Tailor Swift content planned with
a Tailor Swift insider. That's all I'll say. I know
exactly Okay, you know the story. You can't, So guys
(02:33):
be watching the Spill next week anyway. That is this
afternoon's excitement next week's. But then today we have our
recommendations for the weekend. Take it away, Emily, Please don't sing.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay, I'll try not to. No, I won't. I won't sing.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
So I started watching a TV show this week, Huge
that I was so excited to recommend for weekend watch,
and now I'm thinking about maybe I shouldn't recommend.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That anti recommendation.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's not an anti recommendation. It's a recommendation where it's
so bad it's kind of good.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Sometimes it's a warning, like not everything we talk about
in this episode can be the greatest movie in the world.
The gross TV show on the world, because that would
be a lie, and we don't lie to the spill
its exactly. This is more of like you've seeing it's
out in the world.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's more like I want other people to see it
so we can just talk about it. Yeah, it's a
TV show on Disney Plus and it's created and starred
by our good friend Glenn Powers, Glen pal It's called
Chad Powers Son.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's time to face it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Your football career is over. We're here on the grandest
stage in American sports, Kirk.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And for rost holiday a chance to do something special.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You were show voting and you blew the game.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
There's this one problem, Dad, I'm not done with football.
South Georgia's having open tryouts. I'm gonna do a Missus dowtfire.
But with football.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You hear the trut Yeah, and last name.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I've watched the first episode.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's not like bad but in relation to other comedy
it's meant to be like a comedy sports show. In
relation to like the comedy sports show we have now,
like a tad lesso.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It falls a bit short.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay, So it stars Glenn Powell. He plays this really
famous NFL player quarterback named Russ Holliday.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Russ is a shit.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Guy, and not like in a shit guy where the
character is like he's just misunderstood by everyone his life.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
No, he's bad.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
He's an actual shit.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah, Like a young child dies of cancer and he's like,
did he take the vaccine?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Like he's a bad person, because that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
He's a bad person who's been shamed from the sport.
He's like uninsurable basically, so he can't even do like
little TV segments or little movie segments. He's just this
really really famous guy that no one wants anything to
do with him because he's trash.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
He misses the game.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So his dad works in prosthetics for Hollywood, and his
dad gave him a little prosthetic nose and wig because
he doesn't have a job. So Dad's like, you're gonna
have to start working for me because you need to
make money. You can't sleep on my cash all day.
He's like, Michael Bay needs this mask. Go drive over
to Hollywood and give.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It him to the Michael Bay to the Michael Bank
Transformers Visionary, extraordinary, Transformers, slightly problematic, Michael Bay, wildly problematic.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Russ is like in his car and he's like just
thinking about himself because there's nothing else to think about
when you're Russ holiday.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And then he kind of looks.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
At the prosthetics and he's like, maybe I can get
back into the NFL if I just pretend to be
someone else. And then that's the whole show. It's him
putting on this alter ego named Chad Powers to get
back into footy because that's all he ever wanted to do.
And you know what, I'm sure he learned some lessons
on the way. Haven't got to that part yet.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You've got to learn so I mean, the thing is he's.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Got some real bad reviews, which makes me really.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But also sometimes the first episode is just a bit
rocky and you've got to push through, but you're not
getting that vibe.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I'm not getting that vibe so far, I think because
like I've recommended so many like sport adjacent I know
TV shows like we love Taed Lasso, we love Running Point,
we love the others.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Those are the ti that come to my head.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We love talking about sports through the limbs of a tailor's.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yes, and it also helps us understand sports more, which
is what they're like you know, like when Drive to
Survive took off and then she just got all these
females into like the f one sport. Like I think
everyone in Hollywood is trying to jump on that bandwagon.
Like we have Ryan Reynolds and Rob mcahenny making their
like documentaries on sport, Evil and Gloria's jumping on sports.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Glenn Powell tried to jump on sport.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah. Do we think Glenn Powell's okay? That's my question.
Do we think that poor boy's okay? Because I remember
he did.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That GQ interview that we loved.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, but you can't make a career of that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
But what I think is like what happened was I
think the GQ interview kind of like now fall short
for me because of Chad Power.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Because it hasn't backed up with the work he's put out.
I just think he came out of the gate so
strong with his first blockbuster role in Top Gun Maverick.
I was gonna say the idea of you he wasn't
in that. These movie names also we need it. He
came out of the gate so strong with Top Gun Maverick,
(07:10):
and even though Miles Teller was the star, he was
kind of the fan favorite start two pic. Yeah exactly
so hot, I can't talk about it. And then anyone
but you became such a huge success, and he was
so good on the press tour for that, you know
he was. He was there trying to be all like
quirky and fun. He would do like sing along with
the crowd.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He got his parents, his parents involved, he got Brisket involved,
his dog.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, his parents walk here and sign saying stop trying
to make Glenn power happen. So cutes. He's so funny here.
That horrific break up with his girlfriend somehow came for
it came out smelling like roses. And then he was
the chosen one of Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
He went to the Tom Cruise School of Acting.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Which we've learned sounds very prestigious, like it's going to
be in an academy or in like in a bunker somewhere.
It's actually in Tom Cruise's house and you just go
and watch all his movies.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's in Tom Cruise's house, but Tom Cruise is not there.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, Tom Cruise is too busy. But then Glenn had
to go to all of Tom Cruise's premiers and stuff
and had popcorn with him.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Remember Tom Cruise, he loves popcorn so much more than us,
and we really love popcorn.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Do you think that Glenn was like a rebellious child
picking this TV show? What's called it in Chad Powers?
Chad Powers so non descript. Do you think that Glenn
was like, I'm gonna make my own decisions because now
I've graduated from the Tom Cruise school of acting and
I'm ready to get out there. And he chose Chad Powers.
And then he sat down with Tom Cruise and Tom
Cruise is too busy, so he's on a video call
(08:28):
and he shows it to Tom and Tom is like,
I'm so disappointed in you. Yeah, this is not what
I taught you. I think Tom Cruise won't even allow
himself to die in a movie, get properly hurt in
a movie. He won't allow himself to be like filmed
from certain angles like he is. The mythology has to be.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The same heart.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, he like gets people cut off with the knees
if they're taller than him. He's got lifts in his
shoes and his hair.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
What I think Glenn Powell did was that he thought
Chad Powers was a safe bet, because if you read
between the lines, Chad Powers is actually an algamation of
every other movie he's done. So we've got The hit Man,
he's like alter ego we.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Have, and I've got bad reviews as well, bad reviews.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
We've got top Gun Maverick, where he's like this big
sport good looking guy.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, he like guys, remember when I was cool and fabulous.
We got the idea of you about you, anyone but you,
anyone but you do. We've christ anyone but you, Hathaway.
It was like a blonde female love inder interest. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So he thought, I've got all of these good aspects
of everyone loves about me. If I put them all
in one show, surely.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's a given, im dunk.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And he thought everyone's going to see me as his
cool comedic actor and it's going to open up all
of these other roles for him. And then we all
just went don't like it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, I mean it's early days. The show could get better.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
So everyone just watch it just so you can talk
to Emily about it. Can we watch it on Disney
on Disney Plus? Okay? Anyone else thoughts and prays with Powell.
Hope he's okay. I hope, he's scared, He's fine, he's okay.
Changing tact a bit because I am recommending a new
erotic psychological thriller.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Erotic, psychological, all the buzzwords.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We love.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You've been doing a lot of thrillers lately.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I'm looking for thrills in my life from the safety
of my little apartment.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm getting scared you'll like this one.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You'll like this one a lot. Well, you'll feel very deeply.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I just started watching your last week's wreck, Way Wait, Wayward.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, pretty clod as well. I just want to be
alone in a room with her.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well, what I'm recommending this week, which will give you
nightmares for the rest of the week and make you
never touch another human being again, is a new show
that's to just come out on stand today, a new
six part series called Watching You Lena means the needs
some work for us. It's pleasure to meet you, Lena.
Someone has the video, who knows what they've seen, what
(10:44):
they've done with the footage?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Do you want to know what truth looks like?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Watch someone when they don't know if they're being watched.
She can be watching us right now. Now here's how
I'm going to get you into the show. It stars
one of our phaves, Asha d so many roles, no
one for The Bold Type. She's cut in The Bold Type.
She was recently an apple cider Vinegar on Netflix. Some
people would know her from The Status Club, her first
(11:11):
big role. That's where I know, it's where you're star
struck by her. You had you hung out with her recently?
I did. I interviewed her for No Filter, sorry to
cheat on the spill, and I broke my rule of
interviewing people on my favorite TV shows because I love
the Bold Type of watch all the time, so try
not to make eye contact with her for the whole
hour long interview. But she's got an incredible story, like
(11:32):
her whole career, what she's been through in the industry,
but also in her personal life. And unfortunately I did
yell at her just once because she couldn't remember how
The Bold Type ended. And I've watched that episode about
fifty times. So she's so cool. She's the coolest person.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
She even taking a photo with her.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
She touched my back, did she? And you haven't watched
that back since? No?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
No, no, no, She's just so freaking.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Like beautiful, the most beautiful funny there staring right into
her eyes. She's probably like I was in an office
full of women, get so giggly and nervous as when
Asian came.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Silent, She's like, do you guys want to all jump
into the vendom?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah? Okay, and everyone was like no, anyway, I'll linked
the no filter in the show notes if anyone wants
to listen. But what's so interesting is like, yeah, she's
come back to all these incredible Australian productions and watching
you as one of them. So in it, she plays
a young woman called Lena who is engaged and like
very happy in a relationship, and then she has a
chance encounter with a mysterious stranger and they have a
night of wild passion. Oh, which you think that could
(12:33):
be the story. It's like, does she go right to
a film? Sad? She's stay with this guy. But the
story gets much more intense because that Night of passion
has been secretly filmed. She finds out later and then
she does to do well, that's the mystery, isn't it.
And then she starts getting black mail and she starts
unraveling all these different story threads and it becomes very
very intense. It's a bit of a stalking element, and
(12:53):
Asha d is just so good in it. It's one
of her best performances. But it is a very like
in tense watch like my heart was beating so fast
in the first few Is.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It like fleefully thrillers? Like comedic elements.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I wouldn't watch it for a laugh. Okay, I wouldn't
watch it for a while. But it's not like you no, no, no,
no no. It's much more high brad.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, okay, okay, it's much more serious.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a serious story. But yeah, it opens
a lot a lot of different, like kind of discussions
around the surveillance world we live in and dating and
hookup culture and who you can trust and was.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
The film actually Ai?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Like was it actually Ai?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And it wasn't her actually in the movie in that
recording of her making love?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I don't want to I don't think AI is a huge.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
The whole point is that you have to watch it.
I just want to know because no, no, no no. It's
one of those things where like just be careful not
to get any spoilers beforehand, because like it's one of
those TV shows where there's six episodes filming Emily, that's
not the imagine if it before the show has even
like properly come out, and they have been so careful
Asha and her co stars and the press tour, they've
(14:00):
been so careful not to spoil anything. You know what
I think?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Okay, I think her fiance is also cheating, and as
a way out of the relationship, he got the person
he was cheating with to film them to push her.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
To break up.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'm literally not saying anything.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I think that's great storytelling on it half, but I think.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You'll just have to watch it. So every episode there's
like a new reveal, yeah of like where the plot's going,
and like lots of twists and turns, but.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Also maybe she has filmed it herself.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
To stop you right there, and you can't guess the ending. Okay,
you can't guess the reveal. But I think he would
really like it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, I love her. I watch everything she's made.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I would just watch it for her. But it's also
just really good storytelling, great Austraian casts, great astrain production, and.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Just that's a lot of hot, isn't it trailer.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Again, I was like, oh, I know this is meant
to be like a critique of society and stuff and
almost like this is a lot of hot people hook
it up together, and I do enjoy that while while
I'm learning a lesson.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So watching you on stan it's out today, six episodes,
so good, and we we'll the No Filter and the
show notes because the more you kind of know about
Asha d, the more you just want to go watch everything.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
With your interview with as chef and No Filter. Was
there anything about that interview, because that's actually a long
form interview and I feel like.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
In this room, this route, you were sitting in the
same chair she was sitting in. And not to make
you feel bad about yourself, but you know how you
and I just like don't touch the mic stands and
stuff because we're just really inept. She came in and
fixed that mike stand herself. It's sitting at that angle
for you right now because she fixed it for you.
She's a doer. I can't relate.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Was there anything about what she said in the interview
that surprised you?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, because afterwards she said like, oh wow, I've never
really told that story before. But I guess we just
got really in depth in the hour that we were together,
so she talked about getting the role of Cat on
The Bold Tie, which if anyone hasn't watched that show,
it's one of my favorites. It's such a good comfort watch.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It is the best show.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It stars Katie Stevens and Megan Fahey before she blew
up in the White Lotus and everything she's doing.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I actually rewatched The Bold Type recently. It all looks
so young.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
They were the little baby faces.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I forgot how young we all were when we watched it.
And also it was around the time where I think
I was only a year in at Mum and Me,
and it was the first piece of television where every
single one of us who worked in that office was
watching it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, oh yeah. It was like every time a new
episode The Ball Type dropped, it was like an event.
It was an event in the Mirror office.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
It was like kind of about us.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And when we moved to our last new office, everyone
was like, oh my god, we're going to be much
more like The Bold Type because this has a proper lobby.
And when we moved to this office, everyone's like, we're
going to be even more like And when Asha walked in,
she was like, Yeah, I'm getting that kind of that
energy from you guys. And I was like, oh, we're
a bad.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I was like, are we the Bold Type?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Asia, She's like, I guess you ought to be, but yes.
It's based on a real life story of Joanna Coles,
who's a former Cosmo editor, and it tells the story
the Bold Type of three young women working at a
fictional magazine called Scarlet. So you've got Jane who's the writer,
and then Ahd plays Cat, who's the social media goal,
and then Sutton plays the fashion gal. And it's about
(17:02):
all of their lives and so like their professional lives
and their love lives, but mostly about their friendship, which
I love. Yeah, it's so good and it's so funny
because in the no interview we were talking about and
Asia said like that, Megan Fahey used to say that
The Bold Type is pretty much Sesame Street for adults.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's like, it's so fun to watch, but you always
learn a lesson after every episode. It was so true.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And also the fact that you see in the show
The Bold Type like they all became best friends through work,
and I feel like you rarely see that on movies.
And TVs, like you always see these lifelong friendships of
women who went to school together or women who went
to college together. And this was the first time I
saw friendships that were formed at work. And that was
(17:44):
such a revelation for me because I was like, oh
my god, they've only been best friends for like two years.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And what we know to be like statistically correct, is
that most adults, particularly women, make their adult friendships at work,
Like where else are you going to meet people? Really,
And so it was really interesting to watch these women
who it's like their colleagues became their family, which I
don't know, it's something I've experienced, something I know you've experienced.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Was literally literally held my roommate at the time, Lucy
Neville's was a word.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I was like, it's true, it happens, won't matter word.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I was like, this is us, it's us. Anyway, it's
such such a good show. So anyway, I was asking
Asia about getting that role, and she said she was
initially quite nervous to play Cat on the Bold Type
because a big part of Cat's character is that she
is a queer woman, and as she discovers that in
the show, she becomes a very proud and loud queer woman,
and she becomes a real advocate and that's a huge
(18:34):
part of her storyline throughout The Bold Type. And Asha
d was saying something she hadn't really talked about much
before is that at the time, she knew she was queer,
but she was very much in the closet, and she
was very nervous about coming out and she sometimes felt,
she said, it was very hard to play on screen
the thing you want that she wanted to be a
very out, proud queer woman, but she was quite nervous
(18:55):
about that behind the scenes, and so she kept that in.
And she said that sans because the show became such
a huge hit, became syndicated across the world. She said
that she would be walking through the streets and people
would come up to her and hug her and say,
Kat helped me come out. Cat helped me like realized
I was queer. Cat did all these things, and she's like,
she loved that, but she's also like, I can't do that.
(19:16):
So when she did come out, and she said, it
was like a long process of coming out and telling
different people and sometimes it went well and sometimes it didn't.
But she said that she did find like a little
bit of strength in the character of Cat and playing
the thing that she wanted to be. And I thought
that was so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That's so beautiful, And it's so interesting how it can
go both ways, because I remember kind of similar but
not exactly the same. Obviously, when Renee Rapp was doing
sex fives on College Girls, she had to leave that
show because of the identity Cristis it gave her. And
it's really interesting that you can play these roles where
you become so connected to your character that can also
(19:51):
become your undoing and like it can show you that
you either want to keep doing it because that character
gives you strength, or it does a complete opposite where
you have to leave and remove yourself exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And that's the power of these kind of TV shows.
And I hope that some people think go a bit naff,
like all the ball type's just a bit silly. And
I said it to Asha, I was like, I get
really defensive when a lot of critics, and particular especially
a lot of like older male critics, because they're still
the ones who have the jobs at like the bigger publications.
We're just like, oh, it's such a silly little show.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It's so frothy for like teenage girls.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, and I was saying, like I always find it
so irritating when shows like this. It's like, yes, they're
not like these intense hard dramas, but does it mean
they're not a quality show? Because if this is a
show about three young women being raped and murdered, we'd
call it prestige TV. Because it's about three young women
going to work and like living their lives and still
having really intense situations to go through. It's seen as
(20:42):
froth Yeah, And I was like, god for being a
woman just goes to work and has a friend and
is not being raped in a park and her body's
being found. Like we've got enough of that TV. Let's
have this other side of it. And it's so funny
because an Asia was saying, She's like, yeah, I remember
when the reviews came out, so many people were like
this is actually good.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
That's so weird, Like people were shocked at Oh, they
were looking for something yeah about it.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
They were looking to write a bad review.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
On it because it's like this is a great show.
Too bad it to only aim for like young girls.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, like your daughter would it.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, it's like anything for young women has written off
as stilly ye. So yeah, it was such a good interview.
And for anyone who hasn't, I guess that's a bonus
recommendation for anyone who hasn't watched The Bold Type.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Please really the ball Type.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No stop it. I can't it's too much. It is
so good. We've had all the main cast of The
Bold Type on the Spill. Oh my god. We had
Katie Stephen. She was so funny. I brought that up
to Asia. We had John Meg and Fai he did
when she came on the Spill. I will love her
for over. For this. She was like traveling or filming.
She was alone in a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
She had an iPad missap.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
She had an iPad mishap where she couldn't sign in
on her iPad and she didn't want to miss her
Spill interview, so she walked around knocking on people's doors
until she final found an iPad to borrow. She did
the interview from there, and I was like, that is
a professional girl, That's why you're successful. Anyone also had
been like sorry, I can't do it, so I can't
do it. So good anyway, watch the ball type. It's
a throwback recommendations. Throwback recommendation, so bold types on stand
(22:04):
and then wat she used also on Stan. Okay, so yeah,
let's not bring that man into this. It's like you
watch watching you and your bit like.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Man, I wish I recommended the.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Don't put Chad Pouse when you read the Weekend Watch
article this week.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Pretend my name's I'm on Chad Palse.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Let's go to me.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
Weekend Watch. I'm so sorry about my recommendations, but don't
hold it against me.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Okay, I'm trying.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Also, I followed the rules because Chad Powers came out
this week. Okay, I'm gonta recommend it something crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's all apologizing.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You're fine, don't forget to tune in later today at
three pm for our Friday episode where we're doing a
brutally honest review.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
It's a secret, so I'm not gonna spoil it.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But it's one spillers that you have recommended, and it's
also one that you have screamed down my throat.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So we're going to be doing this later today.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
We will see you then, Bye bye,
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