April 3, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So much.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders
that this podcast is recorded on from mom and me out.
Welcome to this spill your daily pop culture fix. I'm
Laura Brodnick and I'm Cassemi Lakitch, and welcome to this
week's episode of Weekend Watch, where we give you all
(00:36):
of our recommendations for the best new TV shows and
movies that have come out this week ahead of the weekend.
I mean it's in the name, it's fairly self explanatory. Yeah,
so that you cannot do your housework, not talk to
your loved ones, just sit in front of a screen
or weekend because you know, at the end of the day,
that's what we want to do.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
There are so many streaming services now this is a
you know, a public service.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yes, absolutely, yeah, exactly. That's what so many people say
to me as they come to me, like what should
I watch this weekend? And I was like, WHOA, Well,
I have to ask you a few questions first, which
streamers do you have? What are you into you? What
are you looking for? Because there's so many choices, So
we waded through all the new releases and we pulled
out the ones. First of all, I have to slightly
break a rule that I said in place when I
came out with Weekend Watch when we started the spill
(01:16):
going back into the law, is that it has to
be something that came out this week. But I wasn't
here last week. I was on the Sunshine Coast in
torrential downpour, so I missed that episode and I didn't
get to tell people about the new TV show that
I'm absolutely obsessed with. I'm just gonna slip it in role.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, real again, Look, I am not a rule follower,
so you just do you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, But I usually go amunt at people, and I
yell at Emily every time she tries to do this. Yeah,
I know, she just goes off the rails when I'm
not here. So it's called The Studio. It's a new
TV series that has just come out on Apple TV
Plus and stars Seth Rogan, who I mean, like, you know,
He's had a few hits and misses over the years,
but overall, I really love the content that he makes.
(01:56):
Being the head of Continental is the only job I've
ever wanted, and I got into all this because you know,
I love movies, but now I have this fear that
my job is to ruin them. As Amirk Gregor prestige
films and box office hits, those are not mutually exclusive.
(02:17):
We can do both, and we will do both. Matt,
I get it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You want to make great art and make a billion
dollars doing it. Well, guess what, that never happens, and
you're going to screw everything up trying.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
To make it happen. So he stars as Matt Remick,
and he's the head of this film production company called
Continental Studios in this fictionalized version of Hollywood, and he's
one of those people who's like believes in them making
like really good movies and kind of trying to save Hollywood.
And when he gets promoted to head of film production,
(02:48):
he's trying to save this floundering film company. And the
cast of this is so stacked. So you've got Catherine O'Hara,
who people would love from Shitz Creek many other things.
That's her main role. I'm Alone, Yes, and she's in
the new season of the Last of Us. She's got
a lot going on the moment. So she plays the
former studiohead in his mentor. And then we've got Ike
baron Holtz, who, again I know he's done so many
(03:10):
other things, but I will always, always, always love him
from the MINDI Project. He's an executive there, Chase Sue
Wonders is Matt's assistant. She's incredible, And Catherine Hahn is
the studio's head of marketing, and again, you know, she's
had a great couple of years with Agatha. All along.
The cast is so good in this. So it's a
fictionalized studio, but a lot of celebrities are in this
and they play these versions of themselves. Most notably Martin
(03:34):
Scorsese is in the first episode and playing himself but
like an over the top version of himself who's trying
to get this movie made with Matt, and he's so
so good in it. We also have Ice Cube, Zoe
kravitzach Efron, Olivia Ryld throughout the series, all playing themselves
and it's funny and it's satire and it's so cutting
about the Hollywood industry. But also it's this idea that
(03:57):
a lot of actors and filmmakers are struggling with the
moment where they don't want to just keep making superhero
movies and keep making ip and keep making spinoffs. They
want to make original movies and they can't do it.
And what I love about this series, apart from how
funny and how original it is, is that it's very
loosely based on Seth Rogen and his longtime creative partner
Evan Goldberg. Their experience was Sony and the Sony email hack.
(04:21):
Do you remember that? I do? I mean, I know
it was terrible and people lost their jobs and it
was a security issue. It was a whole thing back
in twenty fourteen. That email hack was my life. Like
reading those emails was basically if you're not across it.
It was off the back of this movie that Seth
Rogan and Evan Goldberg did call the interview. It triggered
this whole international security scandal. And then all of the
(04:44):
emails from Sony, all the executives, all the emails they
had sent, all the emails that all these huge Hollywood
stars had sent back to them. Email chains were meant
to be kept secret with scandals and saying terrible things
about people like Angelina Jolly just to name one, were
all made public and we could read all those emails.
What a time to be alive. It was like a drug.
I read all of them. I know I shouldn't have,
(05:05):
but I couldn't help it. They were out in the world. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I have a question about this because it's such a
sort of Hollywood centric series. If he's not in that world,
is it still interesting?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Like yes, good question, because a few people have said that, Yes, absolutely,
because it could almost just be like a wild workplace
comedy even if you don't know who these people who
are playing themselves, although a lot of them are huge stars,
so you would You could just watch this completely fictionalized,
not knowing who these people are, and just be like,
this isn't over the top, funny workplace comedy with great performances,
and you can follow it along. You don't have to
(05:38):
know any of the backstory. You don't have to know
if you if you don't know who Martin Scorre says
is when he pops up on screen, Scott, oh, how
did I say it?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
How is the Scorseseco? And then he's I think there's
some people that sayc I know, I should go into
his daughter. His daughter, Franceresca is like huge on TikTok
and he jumps in that I should go see how
she says it. Yes, So, because that email hack offered
this really damaging look into the inner workings of Hollywood,
the series kind of plays on that. But overall it's
(06:07):
just very funny, Like if you're a film in Hollywood,
buff you'll love all the inside jokes. And if you
just love a good comedy, you'll love it as well.
So it's out now on Apple TV. Plus they've released
a few episodes. They're going to be dropping them weekly.
It's just so good. I haven't watched a TV show
like this original and this interesting for so long. Like,
I just love it so much. Okay, that was a
rave review. That's why I had to sneak it in.
(06:28):
I'm like I had to tell the people.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
The one that I've chosen. This week, we're going on
a completely different direction.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
If you don't know this about me, LB, I am
a huge true crime doco fanatic. Like I absolutely adore
documentaries and true crime.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Wow, what is it about that?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Just freak you out.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
No, I just love it. It just draws me in.
I find it really fascinating. So there's a new series
on Netflix, a new true crime series. It's a three
part series. It's called Gone Girls, The Long Island serial Killer.
Now it was only released earlier this week. Already there
is huge type behind it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I'm on one system with food flies.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh do you need the police fight? Shannon Gilbert disappeared
in May twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I will continue to fight until I bring my girl home.
Months after Shannon disappeared, police were searching the side of
Ocean Parkway and they learned that this was a bigger
case than they imagine. Police are on Long Island searching
for a serial killer. We had somebody who's targeting sex
workers basically with impunity, right under everyone's nose. We found
(07:39):
three sets of humor remains from one that it's unbelievable.
Fifth person six, seven, eight, nine, ten, none of them
Shannon Gilbert. It's been sixteen years. I was so tired
being sad. I wish angry.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Sure, there's very little coverage when the sex worker goals
off the grid. Now I'm about one and a half
episode seen. Cannot look away. I cannot look away. It
is fascinating. So basically, just to give you a little
bit of a backstory into Ony ten, there was a
series of bodies that were found on Long Island. If
(08:15):
you don't know where Long Island is, just off Manhattan.
If you think about where the Hamptons is, there's a
massive Long Island is the Hamptons evictily, so just before
the Hamptons there is this area where it's a little
bit more suburban and not as affluent. And so there
was about ten eleven bodies found in this same area
in twenty ten around that time. So basically, this three
(08:37):
part series is following this serial killer. And all of
these women were from sort of the New York tri
said area, so Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Now,
all of these women were sex workers, so there was
a lot of discourse around the fact that these murders
were ignored because these women were sex workers, and oh,
(08:57):
well she's doing that, what does she expect? You know,
the classic.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Dictive blaming thing.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now, I don't know what the end is. It's gripping,
it's fascinating, it is devastating the way that these families
and these women were treated, the way that the law
enforcement dealt with it. If you're a true crime fan,
you will absolutely be enthralled by this. This also happened
not that long ago, and I was thinking about it.
I was in New York in twenty eleven on a
(09:23):
trip like right when this was happening. Not that I
was anything to do with it, but.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's always interesting when you think about like sometimes you
can watch a documentary or something and it just seems
so far removed, and I think that's like sometimes people
forget that it's real life. But when you think about
the fact that you be so close to that area
and it's not like this crazy world that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, and look, serial killers. There was this huge thing
in like the sixties, particularly sixties and seventies where you know,
you're Ted Bundy's and John Wayne Gacy's and all of
those really big cereal killers that they haven't been as common,
but there's you know, these comparisons to Jack the Ripper
because this particular killer targeted sex workers. If you are
interested in true crime, you will really enjoy it. It
(10:07):
is tragic, it's enthralling, and it's really hard to look
away from.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh wow, So on Netflix, right on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And it came out on the thirty first of March,
so a couple of days ago, So you can watch
that this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, my other recommendation, which only came out yesterday. So
this is very much within the bounds of we can watch.
So we're back on track here. It's a new series,
a comedy drama series that just came out on Disney
Plus last night called Dying for six. My cancer is back.
I'm too young. I haven't done anything with my life.
I know it's cheesy, but everybody has a bucket list.
(10:39):
We'll never even had an orgasm with another person.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Good, we have something for your list. Orgasm with another
Personason cad you into dating app.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You're compromise. You can't just sleep with strangers.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
This is about how I feel on it, and I
want to feel things.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Would you take a picture of me slapping my own
but butthole or no butthole, a hint of butthole? Oh
be yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Actually.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So it's based on a podcast series at the same
name by Wandery. I've listened to that yet you have?
What did you think? I haven't listened to it. It's
really really good, really amazing. Does it feel like it
should be a TV show?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well, I think this has been like a huge global
podcast as one, so I think that's why there was
so much excitement, so much height for this series. So
it stars Michelle Williams, who I will just watch in anything.
I find her such a fascinating actress, and I love
that she was this huge teen star on Dawson's Creek
and she very famously saved up all of her earnings
from Dawson's Creek so that when the show finished she
(11:45):
could go off and like be in plays or do
little independent movies, or go to like take more drama classes.
Because she's always been this serious actress. And it kind
of kills me that she's had so many Academy Award
nominations and hasn't won one yet, but she will. And
also interestingly, she hasn't acted for a couple of years,
and when she was doing the press for this, she
(12:05):
said that wasn't intentional. She didn't mean to take this
whole big break from Hollywood, even though she has little
kids at home. So she has like Matilda Ledger, who
she had with her late partner, Heath Ledger, and then
a couple of years ago fell madly in love with
the man that she married and then they had two
kids together and they live on a farm like outside
of New York and it's a whole thing. She's very private,
but I weirdly know that amount of information about her
(12:27):
busy and I know, well, that's the thing. I feel
like I get all my information at Michelle Williams from
Busy Phillips because I listened to that podcast. They're best friends.
Michelle Williams has been on it, even though she never
does stuff like that, but they're just like such good
friends from Dawson's Creek Days. So Michelle Williams said that
she didn't mean to take a few years off, but
she was just waiting for something to really capture her interest.
(12:48):
And because she's at that stage of her career now
where she can just do things that she feels passionate about,
it took a couple of years for something to come along,
and then she read the script for Dying for Sex
and was like, I have to do this. So she
plays this woman Molly. She's in her forties and she's
diagnosed with breast cancer. She finds out the breast cancer
has spread and she doesn't have very long to live,
(13:09):
and her reaction to that is she gets very fixated
and very upset on the fact that she hasn't lived
a sexually fulfilled life. She's been married to her husband
for fifteen years, but she's only ever orgasmed by herself.
So she ends her marriage. She moves in with her
best friend Nicki, who's played by Jenny Slat. So so
incredible is this. So she gets rid of her husband, Steve.
Steve's kicked to the curve. She moves in with Nicki,
(13:31):
who takes on the role of her care and then
she goes in this sort of like quest, this odyssey
to have all these incredible sexual experiences. So in that way,
it's this really like sexually charred show, and there's all
these different sex scenes and it's really interesting to watch.
But then you're also watching this woman whose body is
(13:51):
becoming just ravaged by this disease have to deal with
that and have to deal with the end of her
life and not wanting to think about that and wanting
to sort of just go off and almost cram like
a lifetime's worth of sex into these last few years
that she has left. And I know that's making it
sound like it's a bit sad, but it's.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And I think, having Liz into the podcast, this is
a true story. So this is what this woman did,
But it's really about like self discovery, it's about finding
who she is, and it's really funny as well.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I don't know if that comes across it. Does They've
really leaned into the human and I think a lot
of that comes from Jenny Slaate, Like she's such an
amazing comedic actress. But if you don't know Whames's funny in.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It, if you don't know who Jenny Slaate is, if
you've seen Parks and Rex, she's in Parks and Rex.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So there's eight episodes, they're all out now on Disney Plus. Again,
there's some really funny moments and then there's some really
serious dramatic moments. So it's a good mix between the two.
And it is the kind of show that like you
could just watch one weekly and like really take it in,
or you could sit down and just watch them all.
We want to go on a Sunday, so Dying for
Sex on Disney Plus.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Do you know what I'm really looking forward to. But
just before we end this is when they make a
The Spill series. Oh, I can know now that they're
making with that, now that they're making podcasts into shows,
it's not just about books. Anymore. It's podcasts and turning
into shows. So when they do the Spill, then you
know we have a movie about us.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Who will play me? I'll definitely come off as a
villain and I'm okay with that. Thank you so much
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(15:30):
And we'll see you back here today in your podcast
seed three pm for the main show. Bye bye bye
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Nan
So much.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders
that this podcast is recorded on from mom and me out.
Welcome to this spill your daily pop culture fix. I'm
Laura Brodnick and I'm Cassemi Lakitch, and welcome to this
week's episode of Weekend Watch, where we give you all
(00:36):
of our recommendations for the best new TV shows and
movies that have come out this week ahead of the weekend.
I mean it's in the name, it's fairly self explanatory. Yeah,
so that you cannot do your housework, not talk to
your loved ones, just sit in front of a screen
or weekend because you know, at the end of the day,
that's what we want to do.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
There are so many streaming services now this is a
you know, a public service.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yes, absolutely, yeah, exactly. That's what so many people say
to me as they come to me, like what should
I watch this weekend? And I was like, WHOA, Well,
I have to ask you a few questions first, which
streamers do you have? What are you into you? What
are you looking for? Because there's so many choices, So
we waded through all the new releases and we pulled
out the ones. First of all, I have to slightly
break a rule that I said in place when I
came out with Weekend Watch when we started the spill
(01:16):
going back into the law, is that it has to
be something that came out this week. But I wasn't
here last week. I was on the Sunshine Coast in
torrential downpour, so I missed that episode and I didn't
get to tell people about the new TV show that
I'm absolutely obsessed with. I'm just gonna slip it in role.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, real again, Look, I am not a rule follower,
so you just do you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, But I usually go amunt at people, and I
yell at Emily every time she tries to do this. Yeah,
I know, she just goes off the rails when I'm
not here. So it's called The Studio. It's a new
TV series that has just come out on Apple TV
Plus and stars Seth Rogan, who I mean, like, you know,
He's had a few hits and misses over the years,
but overall, I really love the content that he makes.
(01:56):
Being the head of Continental is the only job I've
ever wanted, and I got into all this because you know,
I love movies, but now I have this fear that
my job is to ruin them. As Amirk Gregor prestige
films and box office hits, those are not mutually exclusive.
(02:17):
We can do both, and we will do both. Matt,
I get it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You want to make great art and make a billion
dollars doing it. Well, guess what, that never happens, and
you're going to screw everything up trying.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
To make it happen. So he stars as Matt Remick,
and he's the head of this film production company called
Continental Studios in this fictionalized version of Hollywood, and he's
one of those people who's like believes in them making
like really good movies and kind of trying to save Hollywood.
And when he gets promoted to head of film production,
(02:48):
he's trying to save this floundering film company. And the
cast of this is so stacked. So you've got Catherine O'Hara,
who people would love from Shitz Creek many other things.
That's her main role. I'm Alone, Yes, and she's in
the new season of the Last of Us. She's got
a lot going on the moment. So she plays the
former studiohead in his mentor. And then we've got Ike
baron Holtz, who, again I know he's done so many
(03:10):
other things, but I will always, always, always love him
from the MINDI Project. He's an executive there, Chase Sue
Wonders is Matt's assistant. She's incredible, And Catherine Hahn is
the studio's head of marketing, and again, you know, she's
had a great couple of years with Agatha. All along.
The cast is so good in this. So it's a
fictionalized studio, but a lot of celebrities are in this
and they play these versions of themselves. Most notably Martin
(03:34):
Scorsese is in the first episode and playing himself but
like an over the top version of himself who's trying
to get this movie made with Matt, and he's so
so good in it. We also have Ice Cube, Zoe
kravitzach Efron, Olivia Ryld throughout the series, all playing themselves
and it's funny and it's satire and it's so cutting
about the Hollywood industry. But also it's this idea that
(03:57):
a lot of actors and filmmakers are struggling with the
moment where they don't want to just keep making superhero
movies and keep making ip and keep making spinoffs. They
want to make original movies and they can't do it.
And what I love about this series, apart from how
funny and how original it is, is that it's very
loosely based on Seth Rogen and his longtime creative partner
Evan Goldberg. Their experience was Sony and the Sony email hack.
(04:21):
Do you remember that? I do? I mean, I know
it was terrible and people lost their jobs and it
was a security issue. It was a whole thing back
in twenty fourteen. That email hack was my life. Like
reading those emails was basically if you're not across it.
It was off the back of this movie that Seth
Rogan and Evan Goldberg did call the interview. It triggered
this whole international security scandal. And then all of the
(04:44):
emails from Sony, all the executives, all the emails they
had sent, all the emails that all these huge Hollywood
stars had sent back to them. Email chains were meant
to be kept secret with scandals and saying terrible things
about people like Angelina Jolly just to name one, were
all made public and we could read all those emails.
What a time to be alive. It was like a drug.
I read all of them. I know I shouldn't have,
(05:05):
but I couldn't help it. They were out in the world. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I have a question about this because it's such a
sort of Hollywood centric series. If he's not in that world,
is it still interesting?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Like yes, good question, because a few people have said that, Yes, absolutely,
because it could almost just be like a wild workplace
comedy even if you don't know who these people who
are playing themselves, although a lot of them are huge stars,
so you would You could just watch this completely fictionalized,
not knowing who these people are, and just be like,
this isn't over the top, funny workplace comedy with great performances,
and you can follow it along. You don't have to
(05:38):
know any of the backstory. You don't have to know
if you if you don't know who Martin Scorre says
is when he pops up on screen, Scott, oh, how
did I say it?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
How is the Scorseseco? And then he's I think there's
some people that sayc I know, I should go into
his daughter. His daughter, Franceresca is like huge on TikTok
and he jumps in that I should go see how
she says it. Yes, So, because that email hack offered
this really damaging look into the inner workings of Hollywood,
the series kind of plays on that. But overall it's
(06:07):
just very funny, Like if you're a film in Hollywood,
buff you'll love all the inside jokes. And if you
just love a good comedy, you'll love it as well.
So it's out now on Apple TV. Plus they've released
a few episodes. They're going to be dropping them weekly.
It's just so good. I haven't watched a TV show
like this original and this interesting for so long. Like,
I just love it so much. Okay, that was a
rave review. That's why I had to sneak it in.
(06:28):
I'm like I had to tell the people.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
The one that I've chosen. This week, we're going on
a completely different direction.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
If you don't know this about me, LB, I am
a huge true crime doco fanatic. Like I absolutely adore
documentaries and true crime.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Wow, what is it about that?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Just freak you out.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
No, I just love it. It just draws me in.
I find it really fascinating. So there's a new series
on Netflix, a new true crime series. It's a three
part series. It's called Gone Girls, The Long Island serial Killer.
Now it was only released earlier this week. Already there
is huge type behind it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I'm on one system with food flies.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh do you need the police fight? Shannon Gilbert disappeared
in May twenty ten.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I will continue to fight until I bring my girl home.
Months after Shannon disappeared, police were searching the side of
Ocean Parkway and they learned that this was a bigger
case than they imagine. Police are on Long Island searching
for a serial killer. We had somebody who's targeting sex
workers basically with impunity, right under everyone's nose. We found
(07:39):
three sets of humor remains from one that it's unbelievable.
Fifth person six, seven, eight, nine, ten, none of them
Shannon Gilbert. It's been sixteen years. I was so tired
being sad. I wish angry.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Sure, there's very little coverage when the sex worker goals
off the grid. Now I'm about one and a half
episode seen. Cannot look away. I cannot look away. It
is fascinating. So basically, just to give you a little
bit of a backstory into Ony ten, there was a
series of bodies that were found on Long Island. If
(08:15):
you don't know where Long Island is, just off Manhattan.
If you think about where the Hamptons is, there's a
massive Long Island is the Hamptons evictily, so just before
the Hamptons there is this area where it's a little
bit more suburban and not as affluent. And so there
was about ten eleven bodies found in this same area
in twenty ten around that time. So basically, this three
(08:37):
part series is following this serial killer. And all of
these women were from sort of the New York tri
said area, so Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Now,
all of these women were sex workers, so there was
a lot of discourse around the fact that these murders
were ignored because these women were sex workers, and oh,
(08:57):
well she's doing that, what does she expect? You know,
the classic.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Dictive blaming thing.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now, I don't know what the end is. It's gripping,
it's fascinating, it is devastating the way that these families
and these women were treated, the way that the law
enforcement dealt with it. If you're a true crime fan,
you will absolutely be enthralled by this. This also happened
not that long ago, and I was thinking about it.
I was in New York in twenty eleven on a
(09:23):
trip like right when this was happening. Not that I
was anything to do with it, but.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's always interesting when you think about like sometimes you
can watch a documentary or something and it just seems
so far removed, and I think that's like sometimes people
forget that it's real life. But when you think about
the fact that you be so close to that area
and it's not like this crazy world that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, and look, serial killers. There was this huge thing
in like the sixties, particularly sixties and seventies where you know,
you're Ted Bundy's and John Wayne Gacy's and all of
those really big cereal killers that they haven't been as common,
but there's you know, these comparisons to Jack the Ripper
because this particular killer targeted sex workers. If you are
interested in true crime, you will really enjoy it. It
(10:07):
is tragic, it's enthralling, and it's really hard to look
away from.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh wow, So on Netflix, right on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And it came out on the thirty first of March,
so a couple of days ago, So you can watch
that this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, my other recommendation, which only came out yesterday. So
this is very much within the bounds of we can watch.
So we're back on track here. It's a new series,
a comedy drama series that just came out on Disney
Plus last night called Dying for six. My cancer is back.
I'm too young. I haven't done anything with my life.
I know it's cheesy, but everybody has a bucket list.
(10:39):
We'll never even had an orgasm with another person.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Good, we have something for your list. Orgasm with another
Personason cad you into dating app.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You're compromise. You can't just sleep with strangers.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
This is about how I feel on it, and I
want to feel things.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Would you take a picture of me slapping my own
but butthole or no butthole, a hint of butthole? Oh
be yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Actually.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So it's based on a podcast series at the same
name by Wandery. I've listened to that yet you have?
What did you think? I haven't listened to it. It's
really really good, really amazing. Does it feel like it
should be a TV show?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well, I think this has been like a huge global
podcast as one, so I think that's why there was
so much excitement, so much height for this series. So
it stars Michelle Williams, who I will just watch in anything.
I find her such a fascinating actress, and I love
that she was this huge teen star on Dawson's Creek
and she very famously saved up all of her earnings
from Dawson's Creek so that when the show finished she
(11:45):
could go off and like be in plays or do
little independent movies, or go to like take more drama classes.
Because she's always been this serious actress. And it kind
of kills me that she's had so many Academy Award
nominations and hasn't won one yet, but she will. And
also interestingly, she hasn't acted for a couple of years,
and when she was doing the press for this, she
(12:05):
said that wasn't intentional. She didn't mean to take this
whole big break from Hollywood, even though she has little
kids at home. So she has like Matilda Ledger, who
she had with her late partner, Heath Ledger, and then
a couple of years ago fell madly in love with
the man that she married and then they had two
kids together and they live on a farm like outside
of New York and it's a whole thing. She's very private,
but I weirdly know that amount of information about her
(12:27):
busy and I know, well, that's the thing. I feel
like I get all my information at Michelle Williams from
Busy Phillips because I listened to that podcast. They're best friends.
Michelle Williams has been on it, even though she never
does stuff like that, but they're just like such good
friends from Dawson's Creek Days. So Michelle Williams said that
she didn't mean to take a few years off, but
she was just waiting for something to really capture her interest.
(12:48):
And because she's at that stage of her career now
where she can just do things that she feels passionate about,
it took a couple of years for something to come along,
and then she read the script for Dying for Sex
and was like, I have to do this. So she
plays this woman Molly. She's in her forties and she's
diagnosed with breast cancer. She finds out the breast cancer
has spread and she doesn't have very long to live,
(13:09):
and her reaction to that is she gets very fixated
and very upset on the fact that she hasn't lived
a sexually fulfilled life. She's been married to her husband
for fifteen years, but she's only ever orgasmed by herself.
So she ends her marriage. She moves in with her
best friend Nicki, who's played by Jenny Slat. So so
incredible is this. So she gets rid of her husband, Steve.
Steve's kicked to the curve. She moves in with Nicki,
(13:31):
who takes on the role of her care and then
she goes in this sort of like quest, this odyssey
to have all these incredible sexual experiences. So in that way,
it's this really like sexually charred show, and there's all
these different sex scenes and it's really interesting to watch.
But then you're also watching this woman whose body is
(13:51):
becoming just ravaged by this disease have to deal with
that and have to deal with the end of her
life and not wanting to think about that and wanting
to sort of just go off and almost cram like
a lifetime's worth of sex into these last few years
that she has left. And I know that's making it
sound like it's a bit sad, but it's.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And I think, having Liz into the podcast, this is
a true story. So this is what this woman did,
But it's really about like self discovery, it's about finding
who she is, and it's really funny as well.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I don't know if that comes across it. Does They've
really leaned into the human and I think a lot
of that comes from Jenny Slaate, Like she's such an
amazing comedic actress. But if you don't know Whames's funny in.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It, if you don't know who Jenny Slaate is, if
you've seen Parks and Rex, she's in Parks and Rex.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So there's eight episodes, they're all out now on Disney Plus. Again,
there's some really funny moments and then there's some really
serious dramatic moments. So it's a good mix between the two.
And it is the kind of show that like you
could just watch one weekly and like really take it in,
or you could sit down and just watch them all.
We want to go on a Sunday, so Dying for
Sex on Disney Plus.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Do you know what I'm really looking forward to. But
just before we end this is when they make a
The Spill series. Oh, I can know now that they're
making with that, now that they're making podcasts into shows,
it's not just about books. Anymore. It's podcasts and turning
into shows. So when they do the Spill, then you
know we have a movie about us.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Who will play me? I'll definitely come off as a
villain and I'm okay with that. Thank you so much
for listening to the Spill today. And look, if you
love listening to the Spill, please leave us a review
on Apple or Spotify. Let us know what you're watching,
let us know topics you'd love us to talk about.
You know, we read all of your reviews, so get
in there and share your feelings. And The Spill is
produced by Ned Green with sound production by Scott Stonning.
(15:30):
And we'll see you back here today in your podcast
seed three pm for the main show. Bye bye bye
Speaker 2 (15:40):
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