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From WB Easy Chicago, this is Nerd at Recaps.

I'm Greta Johnson, and today we are recapping the movie Promising Young Woman.

It is up for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director,

and Best Actress.

Now, if you are at all familiar with this movie, you already know it deals with some tough topics,

including suicide and sexual violence.

So if that's something you are not up for at the moment, that is entirely reasonable,

feel free to press pause, and maybe come back another time.

Also, Peter and Trisha are sitting this one out, but I'm really excited to tell you about the people

who are going to help me recap this movie.

First up, we have Makaya Johnson, who wrote the sci-fi book The Space Between Worlds.

Makaya, hello.

Hello, thank you for having me. I'm so stoked to talk about this movie.

Oh my gosh, there is so much to talk about.

We also have with us the author of Her Body and Other Parties,

and in the Dreamhouse, Carmen Maria Machado.

Carmen, welcome to Nerd at.

Hello, thank you for having me.

So Carmen, you also wrote about Promising Young Woman for the New Yorker.

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