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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: DECADES GRAB BAG: The Stepford Wives Double Feature (1975 / 2004)
Description: CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of gaslighting, spousal abuse, spousal murder, murder, misogyny.
We're getting a little spooky this week with a slow-burn cult horror classic that dares to make its female characters complex and unique and its male characters thoroughly one-dimensional. Somehow it's the men that are utterly unbelievable for a change. That said, there's a pretty great movie to be found in among the wreckage, a fact that filmmakers 30 years later were utterly and completely unable to reconcile. People in 2004 thought that making a dark, subtle allegory for the horrors of the patriarchy into live-action...