On Series 8, Episode 3 of Paid in Puke, we have a blast discussing Susan Seidelman’s 1985 genre-bender, Desperately Seeking Susan, starring Rosanna Arquette, Laurie Metcalf, and friggin’ MADONNA, as well as a bevy of 1980s NYC character actors and hipsters. Baxter falls in love with Ann Magnuson from her 15 seconds of screen time alone. A movie this punk, ACAB, and sex positive is light on the Hot Probs. Apart from having to explain land lines and newspaper personal ads to younger viewers, this ...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 8Ep. 3
On episode 2 of Paid in Puke Series 8, we're sitting and talking (sorry/notsorry) about Nicole Holofcener's 1996 debut feature, Walking and Talking, starring Katherine Keener, Anne Heche, and Allison Janney for two scenes. Full disclosure, this was the first episode we'd recorded after our long hiatus, so there are some recording hiccups. Some of us forget our own name and mispronounce the director's surname. Fortunately, the animated series "The Great North" helps us out with the latter issue, ...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 8Ep. 2
On our Series 8 opener, we're Paid in Pugh'k! It's a drama-o-rama, spoiler-filler Don't Worry Darling Extravaganzah! If you've been living under a Hollywood-free rock, that's Olivia Wilde's genre hopper staring Florence Pugh, Gemma Chan, Kiki Layne, Kate Berlant, and Wilde herself. The script was heavily re-worked by Wilde's Booksmart scribe, Katie Silberman. What IS DWD? Horror? Sci-Fi? A Thriller made by someone who doesn't understand the genre? We find Hot Probs galore, but also gush over the...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 8Ep. 1
On Series 7 of Paid in Puke, we're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series, Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, Cobie Smulders, Judith Light, Mira Sorvino, Edie Falco, Annaleigh Ashford, and Character Actress Margot Martindale. Episode 10 is "The Wilderness", written by show runner Sarah Burgess, and directed by Michael Uppendahl. This series finale drives home all the themes from the season including the raw deal for sexual assault survivors...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 7Ep. 11
On Series 7 of Paid in Puke, we're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series, Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, and Annaleigh Ashford. Episode 9 is "The Grand Jury", written by show runner Sarah Burgess, and directed by Rachel Morrison. It's the penultimate episode in the series. This is the best of the worst of times for Monica. She actually experiences a smidge of vindication when she tells her story to 22 sympathetic (and one incredulous) ...
May 11, 2022•44 min•Season 7Ep. 10
On Series 7 of Paid in Puke, we're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series, Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, and Edie Falco. Episode 8 is "Stand By Your Man", written by Flora Birnbaum and directed by Rachel Morrison. This particular episode is all about the Clintons. Unfortunately, it makes for one, glaring Hot Prob, which is the attempt to make Hillary a sympathetic figure. Meanwhile, Monica is a pioneer of quarantine, having to spend 4 ...
May 03, 2022•47 min•Season 7Ep. 9
On Series 7 of Paid in Puke, we're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series, Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, and Mira Sorvino. Episode 7 is "The Assassination of Monica Lewinsky", written by Flora Birnbaum, Daniel Pearle, and showrunner, Sarah Burgess, and directed by Michael Uppendahl. If you thought it was hard to watch a young woman be detained by wolf-like lawyers in a hotel room, you may need to hold this show's proverbial beer. Whils...
Apr 26, 2022•49 min•Season 7Ep. 8
On Series 7 of Paid in Puke, we're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series, Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, and Mira Sorvino. Episode 6 is "Man Handled", written by showrunner, Sarah Burgess, and directed by Ryan Murphy. This episode is tough to watch. It's an overdose of the patriarchy thrust into a smart, but in-over-her-head young woman who is definitely being abused and deceived for hours thanks to her slizzy friend, Linda. Most remar...
Apr 19, 2022•52 min•Season 7Ep. 7
On Series 7 of Paid in Puke, we're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series, Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, and Annaleigh Ashford. Episode 5 is "Do You Hear What I Hear?", written by Haley Feiffer and directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. It's also a Christmas Episode! Or at least, as close to one as ACS gets. We discuss Linda gaslighting Monica, the ways in which the media skewered the appearances of the women in Clinton's cabinet, and...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Trigger Warning: In this episode, we discuss the sexual assault of a minor. On Series 7 of Paid in Puke, we're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series, Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, and character actress Margot Martindale. Episode 4 is "The Telephone Hour", written by Flora Birnbaum and directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. We talk at length about slizzy friends, how much labor went into documenting a conversation in the 90s, and more...
Mar 29, 2022•49 min•Season 7Ep. 5
We're taking a break from our regularly-scheduled series 7 to talk about the Oscars! The 94th annual Academy Awards will be recorded live on Sunday, May 27th and broadcast on ABC. Special guest Denise Rodriguez joins us to talk about Jane Campion's epic self-sabotage, the ill-conceived idea of axing eight below-the-line awards in favor of a ratings-grab, actors being exhausting about their craft, and plenty of SNUBS! It's a big, fat, spoiler-ific Hollywood chat, Paid in Puke style!...
Mar 22, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Season 7Ep. 4
On Series 7 of Paid in Puke, we're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series, Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, and Annaleigh Ashford. Episode 3 is "Not to be Believed", written by show runner Sarah Burgess and directed by Michael Uppendahl. Billy Eichner makes his first appearance as Internet journalism Founding Father, Matt Drudge. We remember when you weren't permitted to site the world wide web in a research paper because it wasn't consid...
Mar 15, 2022•54 min•Season 7Ep. 3
On Series 7 of Paid in Puke, we're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series, Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, and Annaleigh Ashford. Episode 2 is "The President Kissed Me", written by show runner Sarah Burgess and directed by Michael Uppendahl. On this episode, we talk more about how D.C. is Hollywood disguised as government, what constitutes "legit" harassment in a bi-partisan conflict, the ineffable magnetism of certain predators, and wha...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Paid in Puke is back with a very special season! We're discussing every episode of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story mini-series: Impeachment, starring Beanie Feldstein and Sarah Paulson as well as a bevy of character actors portraying the big players in this monumental 90s scandal that blew up so many lives. The first episode, Exiles, introduces the audience to Monica and Linda, and gets them into position for the biggest bestie betrayal since Judas. It also brings up so many issues for us to ...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 1
On the series 6 finale, we're hate-watching Bradley Cooper's 2018 abuse-masquerading-as-romance remake, "A Star is Born", starring Lady Gaga and no other women. It's a tough hang in every sense of the phrase, but hopefully you'll enjoy hanging with us and making fun of it. Who does the best Jackson Maine as Sling Blade impression? Which is the worst song? What's the best part of the brownie? What happened to the Bradley Cooper who was in Wet Hot American Summer? All this and more will be reveale...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 10
On today's episode, we're carrying a watermelon for Emile Ardolino's 1987 romantic drama, "Dirty Dancing", starring Jennifer Grey, Cynthia Rhodes, and Jane Brucker. It's a slumber party classic for women of a certain age. We reminisce about how much of the plot we understood when it first came out, Johnny's chaotic energy, and the short-shrifting of Lisa Houseman. On the Lunchtime Poll, we discuss memorable moments from our youth that resulted in our radicalization.
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 9
On today's episode, we get existential AF with Alex Garland's 2018 surreal sci-fi film, "Annihilation", starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Tuva Novotny. This is a heady one, but it's a lot of fun if you can stomach some pretty intense body horror and a trippy synth score. It's basically John Carpenter's The Thing on acid but with WOMEN.
Oct 26, 2021•44 min•Season 6Ep. 8
On today's episode, we're talking about a film that won't be ignored: Adrienne Lynne's 1987 problematic as-HELL thriller, "Fatal Attraction". This film was a box office smash that starred Glenn Close, Anne Archer, and we guess a little bit Michael Douglas. It tells the story of woman named Alex, a 34-year-old NYC book editor who becomes impregnated after sleeping with a married man she meets through work. When she expresses an interest in having a relationship with him, he becomes violent and ir...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 7
Baxter's in her dream place talking about David Lynch's 2001 surreal Hollywood Noir, Mulholland Dr, starring Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring. We do our best to explain what it all means, and marvel at Naomi Watt's myriad acting talents. On the Lunchtime Poll, we tell of dreams that bled into our waking lives. PS: This seems as good as time as any to mention that Baxter and Annie have a Twin Peaks podcast called Really Weird Stuff, available on our website and wherever you get your podcasts!...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 6Ep. 6
On this episode, we're on an emotional rollercoaster with Janicza Bravo's 2021 crime drama/comedy, Zola, based on the viral Twitter thread by Detroit waitress A'Ziah "Zola" King in October 2015. It stars Taylour Paige as the titular protagonist, and Riley Keough as the shady lady who roped Zola into a nightmarish weekend in Florida. It's possibly our shortest Hot Probs segment to date, as Bravo knocks this one out of the park. This discussion inspires a new t-shirt (it's always a good idea to MI...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 13
On today's episode, we're falling in love with Todd Haynes' 2015 romantic period drama, "Carol", starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Sarah Paulson. We're joined by special guest, Alicia Mullins of Gal Pals Watch Podcast , who gives us all the Superfan details about the film and the source material (Patricia Highsmith's semi-autobiographical novel, "The Price of Salt"). There's an awful lot of Harge hate and swooning over Cate Blanchett's ethereal presence and silky voice, as well as marvel...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 4
On today's episode, we're discussing the tragic state of underage abortion rights in the United States through thematically similar, but tonally opposite films: Eliza Hitman's 2020 drama "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" starring Sidney Flanigan and Talia Ryder; and Rachel Lee Goldenberg's 2020 comedy, "Unpregnant", starring Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferriera. There are some Hot Probs, but these films are both great in their own right and feature some really incredible debut performances. Des...
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 6Ep. 3
On today's episode, we're setting the record straight with Craig Gillespie's 2017 bio dramedy, "I, Tonya", starring Margot Robbie, and Allison Janney. This film is a little miracle with its pitch-perfect performances, Rashomon story-telling, meta fourth-wall breaking, Cohen-esque comedy, ACAB-ery, and a bangin' soundtrack to boot. We manage to have a very fun conversation about a very HEAVY-hitting story, the egregious double-standards in sports crime prosecution, and what happens to a woman who...
Aug 17, 2021•56 min•Season 6Ep. 2
On our series 6 opener, we're setting sail with Howard Hawke's 1953 musical comedy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring the incomparable Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe! This movie is gay in every sense of the word! It's a mood lifter, a thirst trap, and a subversive musical romp. Marilyn and Jane are the ultimate multi-taskers, dazzling audiences, dodging private detectives, dismantling the patriarchy, and even making a little money along the way. What's not to love? On the Lunchtime Poll, we tr...
Aug 10, 2021•52 min•Season 6Ep. 1
On this special episode of Paid in Puke, please enjoy these clips that mostly have very little to do with the films we discussed over the course of Series 5. Still, your friendly neighborhood PiP editor (Baxter) held onto them because she thought they were amusing and/or interesting. We also had a quick discussion about the 2021 documentary, "Framing Britney Spears" (featuring Laura Lawrence), but it was too short and incomplete to warrant an entire episode. No presh, but if you do decide to thr...
May 18, 2021•37 min•Season 5Ep. 11
On our series 5 finale, we're doing a double shot of Jennifer Jason Leigh and Phoebe Cates, with Amy Heckerling's 1982 comedy debut, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, written by Cameron Crowe, and 2001's Mumblecore template drama, The Anniversary Party, written and directed by Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Alan Cumming. These two films are spiritual sequels, linked by JJL and Cates' twenty year friendship. Fast Times is also Amy's favorite movie of all time! Both of these films find a perfect balance be...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 5Ep. 11
It's Oscar Season!! Join the Paid-in-Pukettes for lamenting snubs, ragging on Aaron Sorkin, loving on Lakeith, and worrying that people will get the wrong message from Nomadland. Stay for some very opinionated commentary on movies we didn't see and equally opinionated commentary on the ones that we did see! Plus! Hot Props: Who will be the In Memoriam Hammer photo? Who will bring their mom as a date? Fun Facts: Which Best Picture winner is the lowest rated on IMDb? Hosts: Is the non-problematic ...
Apr 20, 2021•48 min•Season 5Ep. 10
On today's episode, we're cutting our teeth on David Slade's 2005 directorial debut, Hard Candy, starring Elliot Page in their breakthrough role. We discuss Elliot's electric performance and the perplexing ways in which critics received this film at the time. (Looking at you, Roger Ebert!) We also learn about what castration really does to an erection and briefly touch on some famous predators and how their crimes have done little to effect their careers. We keep it light on the Lunchtime Poll, ...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 9
On today's episode, we're losing it over Radha Blank's 2020 semi-autobiographical comedy, The 40-Year-Old Version, written, directed by, and starring Radha Blank. This film fills so many cinematic voids for us, and we love the way it pays tribute to the male auteurs who influenced Blank, whilst simultaneously subverting their genre. It's all about reclaiming artistic spaces for women of color and of a certain age and we're here for all of it. FYOV! On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal our hypothetic...
Apr 06, 2021•50 min•Ep. 12
As far as we're concerned, Josh Greenbaum's 2021 comedy, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is an instant classic. Kristin Wiig and Annie Mumalo wrote the script and also star as the titular middle-aged mid-westerners who danced their way into our hearts and our lexicons. So, have a couple of wheat thins, slide into your most comfortable culottes, and join us in gushing over this silly, good-hearted musical tribute to women of a certain age. Also, Jamie Dornan is there, nailing the himbo role and...
Mar 30, 2021•57 min•Season 5Ep. 7
