I Love You But - latchkey sisters talk movies and tv
Some weeks, the Davis sisters, Heather and Rian, revisit relics of their childhoods to critically evaluate the crap that consumed their misspent youth. Overeducated, lazy feminists, the sisters examine how their identities were informed by media while making fun of everything.
I Love You But - latchkey sisters talk movies and tv
The Price is Right Until the Soap Operas Started [Chimes at Midnight (1965)]
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Welcome to Season 5 of the I LOVE YOU BUT Davis Sisters Podcast! Heather and Rian celebrate summer with an Alt Shakespeare theme, starting with Orson Welles' bloated opus, CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1965). In this Mothers' and Fathers' Day Episode, topics include a book about Falstaff; baking misadventures and canned green beans; THE BOROUGHS (2026-); we are NOT THE GOONIES (1985)—we are the Cabbage Patch Kids; your kids aren't having a 90s summer; Heather's new favorite TV show: Aasha's first watch of BtVS on Threads; using movies as friend tests; much ado about actually something (school board tea); dragging our mother and our father; have you ever heard your mother say the word "orgasm?"; the shocking self-awareness of our father in choosing Falstaff as his grandparent name; to quote a Letterboxd review, "Orson truly was that btch"; 60s British ridiculousness; is this a 1980s music video?; the horns and Hotspur need to calm down; spot the twink; actual discussions about Shakespeare's Falstaff; did Shakespeare have ADHD and insomnia?; Orson Welles had a mad older brother who reappeared after being reported dead and more fun facts from Rian's book report on Orson Welles; and even more!
Notable Sources
- Orson Welles: The Unfulfilled Promise. Barbara Leaming. The New York Times. (1985).
- Letterboxd users: Jake Cole and Dante
- Kael's review pieced together from three sources: Orson Welles’s FALSTAFF: One of the Greatest Movies Ever Made; and 50 Years Ago This Week – Kael Lauds Orson Welles
- Falstaff and Equity: An Interpretation. Charles E. Phelps. (1901).
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