Drop Dead Gorgeous & Miss Congeniality

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This week we're joined by Chicago's own drag queen Coco Sho-Nell to discuss movies about beauty queens! 1999's Drop Dead Gorgeous has become a queer cult classic in the years since it's release, with it's biting social satire and broad caricatures mocking the culture of American capitalism and teen beauty pageants. For a pairing, we look to 2000's Miss Congeniality,  starring Sandra Bullock as a woman who goes undercover in a beauty pageant. Both films seek to skewer the culture that celebrates the objectification of women, but do they succeed? Are they biting social commentaries or do they use the pageants as a backdrop to a mediocre romcom? Join Brian and Coco as they debate this and much more!