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Unspooled

BONUS: Promising Young Woman

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On a bonus Unspooled, Paul & Amy discuss 2020's thorny modern revenge story Promising Young Woman! They praise the film's tonal balancing act and subversion of audience expectations, view Cassie's story through the prism of the misogynist pop culture of the 00s, and listen to highlights from Amy's conversation with director Emerald Fennell and star Carey Mulligan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The year is 2021 and hey

0:04.9

Sorry, hey, what are you doing the movie promising young woman

0:10.2

Hello

0:28.5

Hello everybody and welcome to unspooled. I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer and this is a very special episode of unspooled

0:37.6

It's been a weird movie here Amy. I feel like I have not been totally on top of all the movies that are up for awards and Oscars and

0:47.8

I know that you have to be because you are voting in the LA Film Critics Association and you're awarding people things

0:54.9

But I think for most people and the nationals I'm a national okay

1:02.0

But I feel like I think a lot of people have been talking to you feel a little bit lost like where are they?

1:05.8

Falling in like there's so much stuff coming out, but there's not that much fanfare and things are coming and going and

1:11.5

and

1:12.7

I think it can be a little bit overwhelming

1:14.5

So we thought that it might be fun to

1:17.7

deviate from our schedule and do a special episode to focus on the movie that you and I both really loved

1:23.2

That is up for some awards and we might do this again

1:25.9

But this is kind of a bonus episode if you will about promising young woman

1:30.9

Yeah, let's bonus it up. Let's bonus it up

1:32.9

And you know when we get closer to our very late Oscars. I think we should talk Oscar films

1:37.2

There's a bunch of stuff that's very worthwhile

1:40.5

Yeah, and I think it'd be fun to you know take a moment to highlight so this episode won't be our traditional

1:46.8

Willa Coda space

1:47.8

It's more just a chance for us to kind of have a chat about a movie that we both

1:53.1

I think you know, let's get right do it like really liked a lot and I thought where I mean for me

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