BONUS: FESTIVUS 2021
Happy Festivus! As we’re heading into the holiday season, we watched three festive films and discussed their feats of strengths, and aired our grievances. At this metaphorical Festivus dinner, we gather round to chat about Happiest Season, Last Christmas, and The Holiday.
This episode was recorded on 18 December 2021.
Show notes
“Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you’re gonna hear about it!”
Festivus is from the Seinfeld episode “The Strike” - read more here, and watch a clip here.
Our Lord and Saviour, George Michael.
Listen to the cover of ‘I can’t make you love me’ here.
Jen V loves Gattaca.
More here on Barbara Stanwyck.
Read more about the Santa Ana Winds.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (TV Show) - more here.
White Oleander (book by Janet Finch).
Bridget Jones’ Diary (film, book).
Read more about the “Heroin Chic” body type of the 1990s (grim).
We’ll be back next week with our actual one shot, Thor: Ragnarok! We’ll be discussing it through the themes of family and memory. We’re really looking forward to this one!
Then, we’ll be kicking off season 4 - we’re reading Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. We are both fangirls so it’s going to be a fun season of unpacking all that. The first episode will be out on 6 January 2022 - themes here.
We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where this episode was recorded - the Guringai and Darug people, and tangata whenua of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
Our intro and outro music is by the excellent Scott Buckley. Check him out here.
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