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We always have fun on The Monitor, but this week things got a little out of hand.
You see, it all started when we began talking about Fantastic Four. Someone brought up the Peter Travers review from Rolling Stone and its brilliant observation that the young cast was used like “an old whore trying to pass as jailbait” and then everything just kind of fell apart. There was a lot of laughter. The kind that you can’t stop once you start. The kind that brings you to tears.
And really, that’s how this week has been in the pop culture universe. Between Fantastic Four and the end of True Detective, there was a lot out there that was so bad you had to laugh at it to keep from crying. (Or at least laugh until you started crying.) That’s just how it is sometimes. Luckily, Dr. Dre also dropped Compton last week, so we at least had something to console us.
Anyway, this week we’ve got editors and contributors Jordan Crucchiola, Peter Rubin, K.M. McFarland, and Angela Watercutter in the booth and barely keeping it together. Won’t you join them for a laugh-cry?
Here are a few helpful links for things we talk about in the podcast:
-Angela Watercutter’s numerical analysis of Fantastic Four -K.M. McFarland’s recap of the True Detective finale -Jordan Crucchiola’s piece on the improbable road trips of True Detective -Director Josh Trank’s tweet about Fantastic Four (and everything that lead up to it) -Peter Rubin’s remembrance of Sean Price
