Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

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Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens is joined by New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme to spoil Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, the new adventure-filled comedy by real life best friends and the writers who brought us Bridesmaids, Kristin Wiig and Annie Mumolo. When lifelong best friends and roommates Barb (Annie Mumolo) and Star (Kristin Wiig) leave their Midwestern hometown for the first time ever, they embark on a vacation to Vista Del Mar, Florida. What starts out as a bit of harmless fun in the sun, quickly becomes the most unexpected, bizarre and even dangerous adventure of a lifetime for the pair. Will they ever be the same? Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore. Email us at [email protected]. Podcast production by Morgan Flannery. Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Hosts Dana Stevens is a movie critic at Slate. Rachel Syme is a staff writer at The New Yorker and you can read her review here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.4	Hi, this is another Slate's spoiler special podcast. I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and this time around we're going to be talking about Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar, a movie that was released a while back. And it had sort of a long
1:12.6	production history, which maybe we'll get into and was supposed to come out in the summer of
1:16.3	2020, was then put off until 2021, and has now come out on video only, which has turned out to be a
1:22.2	real boon for this movie. And I think people are really responding to it, especially for, you know,
1:26.3	the oddball and somewhat small-scale kind of movie that it is.
1:30.0	Joining me to talk about Barb and Star is Rachel Sime, a staff writer for The New Yorker.
1:34.3	Hey, Rachel.
1:35.1	Hey.
1:36.2	So, thanks for joining special about this movie. I'm going to read a tiny bit of it back to you. Maybe that can inspire our conversation. So this comes early in what you're writing about it when you talk about the transition from what I would think of as the setup, the first 20 minutes or so, where we meet
2:00.9	Barb and Star in their hometown of Soft Rock, Nebraska, and how it then transitions to the town
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